Change Manager

Rolls-Royce; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Rolls-Royce is seeking a Change Manager to deliver hands-on change management for country transitions, based in Bengaluru. You will partner with Project Managers and local leadership to ensure adoption and embedding of changes, with strong focus on communications, readiness and stakeholder engagement.

The role requires practical change delivery, ability to create high-quality materials, and a proactive, ownership-driven approach across multi-country change activities.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering change activity in complex transition, transformation or business change environments.
• Hands-on delivery of stakeholder engagement, communications, readiness, training and adoption activity.
• Strong written communication and materials creation capability, with attention to clarity, tone and audience needs.
• Practical project delivery mindset: able to work with plans, milestones, risks, dependencies and multiple stakeholders.
• Proactive, value-add style: able to pick up actions, create outputs and keep change activity moving without heavy direction.
• Credibility working with Project Managers, local delivery leadership, HR / People teams, sending organisations and impacted user groups.
• Passion for making change land, with focus on understanding, readiness, adoption and sustained ways of working.
• Comfortable as an individual contributor; no people leadership requirement, but strong personal ownership essential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver change plans, stakeholder mapping, engagement activity, communications, readiness assessments and adoption support for assigned transitions.
• Work day-to-day with Project Managers, local VP / centre delivery leadership, the Level B Change Lead, People Partners, sending organisations, SMEs and GCC teams.
• Translate transition plans into practical change activity that helps impacted teams understand what is changing, what it means for them and how to prepare.
• Create high-quality change materials directly, including messages, briefing packs, FAQs, engagement content, readiness outputs and adoption support.
• Identify stakeholder concerns, change impacts, readiness gaps and adoption risks, escalating issues and driving practical follow-up where needed.
• Support leaders and impacted teams on the ground through clear engagement, communications and readiness planning.
• Track change actions, risks, adoption indicators and feedback, keeping progress visible and follow-up clear.
• Apply programme change templates, standards and messages consistently while adapting to local country and functional realities.
• Contribute lessons learned and practical improvements to the wider GBS Change Community and local change capability.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Change communications

Project delivery

Materials creation

Proactive mindset

Ownership

Job description

Why join Rolls-Royce?

At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

Job Description

Job Title: Change Manager

Location: Bengaluru

Fulltime/Permanent

Why join Rolls-Royce?

At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

By joining Rolls-Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.

Summary

Deliver hands-on change management for the country transition portfolio as part of the country Programme Delivery & PMO capability in Krakow and Bangalore, working into the local VP / centre delivery leadership and under functional guidance from the Level B VP Change. Partner with Project Managers to ensure transition activity is understood, adopted and embedded on the ground. This role suits practical change practitioners with transition delivery experience, strong materials creation, stakeholder engagement and a passion for making change land for impacted teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver change plans, stakeholder mapping, engagement activity, communications, readiness assessments and adoption support for assigned transitions.
• Work day-to-day with Project Managers, local VP / centre delivery leadership, the Level B Change Lead, People Partners, sending organisations, SMEs and GCC teams.
• Translate transition plans into practical change activity that helps impacted teams understand what is changing, what it means for them and how to prepare.
• Create high-quality change materials directly, including messages, briefing packs, FAQs, engagement content, readiness outputs and adoption support.
• Identify stakeholder concerns, change impacts, readiness gaps and adoption risks, escalating issues and driving practical follow-up where needed.
• Support leaders and impacted teams on the ground through clear engagement, communications and readiness planning.
• Track change actions, risks, adoption indicators and feedback, keeping progress visible and follow-up clear.
• Apply programme change templates, standards and messages consistently while adapting to local country and functional realities.
• Contribute lessons learned and practical improvements to the wider GBS Change Community and local change capability.

Essential Experience

• Experience delivering change activity in complex transition, transformation or business change environments.
• Hands-on delivery of stakeholder engagement, communications, readiness, training and adoption activity.
• Strong written communication and materials creation capability, with attention to clarity, tone and audience needs.
• Practical project delivery mindset: able to work with plans, milestones, risks, dependencies and multiple stakeholders.
• Proactive, value-add style: able to pick up actions, create outputs and keep change activity moving without heavy direction.
• Credibility working with Project Managers, local delivery leadership, HR / People teams, sending organisations and impacted user groups.
• Passion for making change land, with focus on understanding, readiness, adoption and sustained ways of working.
• Comfortable as an individual contributor; no people leadership requirement, but strong personal ownership essential.

Desirable Experience

• GBS, Shared Services, GCC, transition, service management or operating model change experience.
• Experience supporting multi-country change delivery across Poland, India or similar global locations.
• Exposure to mobilisation, stabilisation, adoption or benefits realisation activity.
• Formal change management qualification or methodology exposure, such as Prosci or APMG Change Management.
• Experience supporting people-impacting change or functional transitions across Finance, Procurement, HR, PMO or similar domains.

Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.

Rolls-Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.

As part of our selection process, candidates in certain locations may be asked to complete an online assessment, which can include cognitive and behavioural aptitude testing relevant to the role. If required, full instructions for the next steps will be provided.

Job Category

Project Management

Posting Date

29 Jul 2026; 00:07