Change & Readiness Manager - Sheffield, United Kingdom - Akkodis

Akkodis

Verified Company

Sheffield, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An exciting opportunity to work on a large programme of change with one of our biggest South Yorkshire based clients.

With several organisation wide projects both ongoing and the pipeline, this role will sit within a change and readiness team working withstakeholders to embed change approach and methods into projects, ensuring a long lasting and effective impact on the organisation.

As this is a lead role, it is key to not only contributing but maturing the team's capabilities.

Building collaborative relationshipswith stakeholders, working closely with them to guide working practice and delivering change for multiple concurrent strategic projects aligning to the organisations vision.

The day to day in this role will breakdown into four key areas:

Stakeholder Management - Ensuring stakeholders understand the need for planned readiness, helping them to anticipate potential barriers to change. Building rapport and ensuring their business needs are represented and understanding underlyingissues affecting culture and behaviours.

Impact Assessments - Leading the impact assessment process and integrating findings into a readiness plan to ensure stakeholder, product owners and supporting teams can deliver against their needs. Identifying patterns trends and discrepanciesthat could be a barrier to change.

Communication and Engagement -Ensuring the stakeholder matrix is adequately reflected and assessed in conjunction with Change and Readiness Officers to ensure effective messaging. Working to develop a communication strategy that is fitfor purpose.

Readiness Planning:

Addressing dependencies and risks that could impact the organisations' ability to change and ensuring these are addressed. Designing and planning the required activities to enable successful delivery. Providing Insightsinto training needs

Experience:

A good understanding of change management practices through a track record of change related experience
Experience working with a complex stakeholder landscape
Previous experience managing within the Change space
Excellent problem solving skills and an ability to effectively plan against issues
Ability to make confident and informed decisions within a fast pace environment

Both Modis International Ltd and Modis Europe Ltd are Equal Opportunities Employers.