Training and Adoption Manager

AWE; Brighton; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

9-day working fortnight

Market-leading pension

Family friendly policies

Career development funding

Employee Assistance Programme

Life Assurance

Discounts

Special Leave Policy

Job summary

AWE is seeking a Training and Adoption Manager to lead the successful change, adoption, and embedding of digital services across a defined business area.

You will translate technical and project outcomes into business value and operational readiness, acting as a bridge between delivery teams and business stakeholders. The role aligns to a specialist area such as Operations, Science, Infrastructure, or Engineering, within the Service Transition team.

Qualifications

• Understanding of change governance, information assurance, and data protection requirements.
• Degree or equivalent experience in change management, business transformation, or related field.
• Demonstrable experience leading business change initiatives in digital or technology-enabled contexts.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influence.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and coordination skills.
• Able to navigate complex change landscapes.
• Willing to travel.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and delivery of business change activities to ensure successful adoption of digital solutions in the assigned area.
• Identify, engage and influence stakeholders to enable a shared understanding of change readiness and outcomes.
• Assess training needs and develop training strategies to build user capability and confidence.
• Drive the adoption of new services, systems or processes and help realise benefits.
• Provide post-implementation support and embed changes into business-as-usual operations.
• Identify and manage business readiness risks and resistance related to digital change.
• Ensure change initiatives align with broader digital strategies and coordinate with other transformation efforts.

Skills

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Training & capability building

Adoption & benefits realisation

Risk & issue management

Communication & facilitation

Travel willingness

Education

Degree or equivalent experience in change management

Job description

Role: Training and Adoption Manager

Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.

Package: Starting from £50,060p.a (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)

Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.

Let us introduce the role:

The Training and Adoption Manageris responsible forleading the successful change, adoption, and embedding of digital services across a defined business area. This role ensures that new digital products, services, and ways of working are effectively implemented, adopted, and sustained. Acting as a critical bridge between delivery teams and business stakeholders, the Training and Adoption Manager translates technical and project outcomes into business value and operational readiness.Each Training and Adoption Manager is aligned to a specialist area: Operations, Science, Infrastructure, Enabling and Corporate Functions, Shared Functions, or Engineering. This role sits within the Service Transition team, ensuring that digital services are not only delivered effectively but also adopted and embedded into business-as-usual operations.

• Change Planning and Delivery:Accountable for planning and leading business change activities to ensure successful adoption of digital solutions in the assigned area.

• Stakeholder Engagement:Accountable foridentifying, engaging, and influencing stakeholders to enable a shared understanding of change impacts, readiness, and outcomes.

• Training and Capability Building:Accountable for assessing training needs, developing training strategies, and ensuring delivery of effective learning interventions to build user capability and confidence.

• Adoption and Benefits Realisation:Accountable for driving adoption of new services, systems, or processes and supporting business areas to realise intended benefits.

• Support and Sustainment:Accountable for providing post-implementation support, reinforcing new behaviours, and embedding changes into business-as-usual operations.

• Risk and Issue Management:Accountable foridentifyingand managing business readiness risks and resistance related to digital change.

• Alignment and Integration:Accountable for ensuring change initiatives align with broader digital strategies and are coordinated with other transformation efforts.

• Health and Safety: Accountable formaintainingand promoting high personal standards in environment, safety, health,securityand quality and beinga great teamplayer.

Essential Criteria:

• Understanding of change governance, information assurance, and data protection requirements.

• Degree or equivalent experience in change management, business transformationetc.

• Demonstrable experience leading business change initiatives in digital or technology-enabled contexts.

• Strong stakeholder engagement and influence.

• Excellent communication, facilitation, and coordination skills.

• Able to navigate complex change landscapes.

• Willing to travel.

Work hard, be rewarded:

We ask a lot and set the bar high because our work truly matters. In return we offer balance, with award winning benefits including:

• 9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.

• Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).

• Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.

• Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.

• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.

• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).

• Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.

• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.

All candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the appropriate security clearance for this role.