Senior Change Manager

Barden | B Corp; Cork; On-site; EUR 129,000 - 203,000; Part time

Job summary

Barden, in partnership with a European business headquartered in Cork, is recruiting a Senior Change Manager on a 12-month daily-rate contract to lead organisational change across a major transformation programme. Six workstreams are live: ERP, project and portfolio tooling, process redesign, governance and reporting, AI adoption, and a new data platform.

The change discipline does not yet exist and must be built from scratch.

Qualifications

• Has built or substantially tailored a change approach, not just operated one someone else designed.
• Led change across concurrent programmes with competing priorities.
• Landed large system and process change, and the adoption that has to follow it.
• Worked across cultures and geographies, with real evidence of navigating resistance.
• Has the credibility, and the personality, to hold a straight conversation with an executive team.
• Certifications such as Prosci, APMG, or CCMP welcome, as are PRINCE2, PMI, MSP, or Agile. What you have delivered matters more here than what you are certified in.

Responsibilities

• Build the change approach from scratch: framework, standards, templates, governance, and decision rights.
• Own the portfolio change roadmap across all six workstreams.
• Hold the change saturation view, with the mandate to tell project managers and the executive team when something has to move.
• Run impact and readiness assessments, stakeholder engagement, communications, and adoption planning across concurrent workstreams.
• Lead the change champion network and build capability through coaching and communities of practice.
• Equip sponsors, and address resistance across multiple countries rather than working around it.
• Define outcome-based measures, build portfolio reporting, and feed lessons learned back into governance.

Skills

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Governance

Portfolio planning

Coaching

Cross-country collaboration

Education

Prosci/CCMP

PRINCE2/PMI

MSP/Agile

Job description

Barden is delighted to partner with a European business headquartered in Cork as they appoint a Senior Change Manager on a 12 month daily rate contract, to lead organisational change across a major transformation programme.

Six workstreams are live: a new ERP, project and portfolio management tooling, process redesign, governance and reporting, AI adoption, and a new data platform. The technology is being built. The change discipline that needs to sit alongside it does not exist yet.

Building it is the first half of this role. Landing it across workstreams that are already moving is the second.

You will report directly to the Head of PMO, own the change agenda for the entire programme, and work across several European countries — each with its own history and its own appetite for change. Executive sponsorship and board approval are already in place.

"We've said out loud that we haven't been doing change well, and there's no framework here yet. We're not looking for someone to run ours — we're looking for someone to build it."

– Head of PMO

WHY THIS ROLE

• You build it rather than inherit it. Nothing exists today, and there is real appetite at the top for someone to own it.
• Change across the whole programme, not one slice of one workstream.
• A business that has already told its own people it needs to do change better. You will not spend six months proving the problem exists.
• Six concurrent workstreams spanning systems, process, data, and AI, with exposure across the executive team.

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Build the change approach from scratch: framework, standards, templates, governance, and decision rights.
• Own the portfolio change roadmap across all six workstreams.
• Hold the change saturation view, with the mandate to tell project managers and the executive team when something has to move.
• Run impact and readiness assessments, stakeholder engagement, communications, and adoption planning across concurrent workstreams.
• Lead the change champion network and build capability through coaching and communities of practice.
• Equip sponsors, and address resistance across multiple countries rather than working around it.
• Define outcome-based measures, build portfolio reporting, and feed lessons learned back into governance.

ABOUT THE PERSON

• Has built or substantially tailored a change approach, not just operated one someone else designed.
• Led change across concurrent programmes with competing priorities.
• Landed large system and process change, and the adoption that has to follow it.
• Worked across cultures and geographies, with real evidence of navigating resistance.
• Has the credibility, and the personality, to hold a straight conversation with an executive team.
• Prosci, APMG, or CCMP welcome, as are PRINCE2, PMI, MSP, or Agile. What you have delivered matters more here than what you are certified in.