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At Honda we embrace inclusion in our various policies, so whilst our contracts state that the hours are as required to fulfil the role with a minimum of 35 hours per week, we offer flexibility for when you work. The regular office hours are 08:00 – 16:00 Monday to Thursday with a half hour lunch break & 08:00 – 13:00 on a Friday. However, we offer flexibility of when you work with our daily flex-time start of between 07:00 and 11:00 providing that there is no business requirement.

Whilst there is no contractual right to work from home, the flexibility we offer is that you can request to work from home 2 days per week, again providing there is no business requirement to attend the office.

Role:
We are seeking a highly experienced and proactive Business Change Project Manager to support key transformation programmes within Honda Motor Europe. In particular, this role will lead the continued rollout and optimisation of a major European direct-to-consumer sales pilot in UK, while also supporting the deployment of new CRM technologies designed to enhance performance.

Operating in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment, you will manage a complex landscape of stakeholders, cross-functional teams, and external partners — working with autonomy and confidence to ensure delivery. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of people, process, and technology, requiring exceptional change leadership, strong commercial acumen, and the ability to turn strategic intent into real-world results.

You’ll need to be highly people-savvy — capable of building trust, gaining alignment, and winning hearts and minds across all levels of the programme to drive momentum and achieve meaningful outcomes.

Main Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end delivery of business change projects, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives
• Develops and maintains detailed project plans, timelines, and deliverables for business change initiatives.
• Leads and motivates the project team to achieve project goals while fostering a collaborative environment.
• Engages and influences stakeholders at all levels, ensuring buy-in and support for change initiatives.
• Drives effective communication and change adoption strategies across impacted teams.
• Works closely with technical project manager to ensure business change activity aligns with technical timelines and requirements.
• Identifies, assesses, and mitigates project risks and issues, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations
• Produces and maintains Project Charter, including defining scope and objectives.
• Tracks project performance making adjustments to schedules and plans when needed
• Manages changes to project scope, schedule, and costs, ensuring all stakeholders are informed.
• Adheres to the programme communication plan, including providing project status reports.
• Escalates key risks/issues to programme management team.
• Ensures project team adhere to programme ways of working.

Qualifications, skills and experience:
Required

• Proven track record in managing complex business change projects on fast-moving, multi-faceted transformation programmes.
• A self-starter, able to identify their own priorities and the key activities to keep a programme successfully moving at pace.
• Exceptional communication skills. Able to influence, persuade, and communicate with a diverse stakeholder pool. Able to communicate appropriate, concise, and accurate information in written and verbal formats.
• A confident leader able to influence stakeholder buy in and outputs.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
• Able to take full responsibility and ownership for completion of tasks.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence without direct authority.
• Comfortable under pressure, and able to manage multiple diverse tasks within a short time-line.
• Concern for accuracy: Desire to ensure accuracy and quality in work delivered.
• Prior experience of working in an international matrixed organisation.

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