Business Change Partner - London, United Kingdom - Arcadis

Arcadis

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

At Arcadis we focus on attracting, retaining and developing people who share our passion and commitment to improve quality of life.

In return we offer you the opportunity to transform your world and the world around you, that could be through client work, upskilling yourself, championing equality and inclusion or getting involved in charity work, to name just a few.

Our people value different perspectives, they care about the sustainability of our planet and dare to shape the future.

One of our core values is 'people first', and supported by our Lovinklaan foundation, we invest in you for the long term, to ensure you reach your full potential.

You'll have the opportunity to own your career and work on industry-defining projects, finding solutions to real challenges that make a difference to people's lives.

You're encouraged to have a growth mindset and are given the space to develop personally and professionally, building a flexible career that works for you.

Location:

Global scope/location, the position can be filled in any location where Arcadis has a legal entity.

Purpose:

Arcadis is currently implementing a transformation program called the Arcadis Way, with the aim to provide globally harmonized, best practice business processes and IT solutions to all Arcadis operating companies.

To support the Arcadis Way implementation across our countries, we are now looking for a hands-on Change Manager responsible for managing and executing the change strategy and plans for several Arcadis Way projects, among which Global Procurement and the Oracle Compensation Module.

Reporting lines:

This role reports to Change Lead - Arcadis Way.

Individual accountabilities:

Key shared accountabilities:

Identify the change activities in collaboration with central and regional team
Create transparency on the change readiness in the journey before golive
Ensure clear communication about AW program in the region

Decision rights:

Owns:

Regional Change Plan

Influences:

Readiness for change

Profile requirements:

Proven ability to initiate, manage and execute change activities using a structured methodology and set of tools, preferably PROSCI.
Proven experience in managing largescale, complex change programs, related to implementing ERP (preferably Oracle).
Experience with transformational projects across a series of countries and cultures.
A solid understanding of how people go through change.
Able and willing to understand the content of the project.
Highly organized and efficient with strong attention to detail.
High degree of initiative and proven ability to work under pressure.
Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations.
Able to work effectively at all levels in an organization.

Further required competencies:

Excellent project management skills with strong focus to deliver.
Leadership, strategic and cultural skills.
Consulting skills.
Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills.
Credible and persuasive at management level.
Enthusiastic and committed attitude toward work and task completion.
Willing to undertake (intercontinental) travel as necessary.

For this role Arcadis values professional experience across the following priority areas:

Breadth of experience:
Working internationally, across different industries and business lines and/or functions, managing projects impacting people/issues/solutions across organizational boundaries.

Leading transformation:

Ability to bring people on a journey to the unknown, creating a sense of stability and security in uncertain times, avoiding change fatigue.

Managing change:
Managing change e.g.

divestments or mergers/acquisitions, growing a start-up, or leading change into other market/services or products, operating with new business models, turning around underperforming businesses, programs or teams and driving standardization and automation at scale.

Be curious:

Demonstrate and develop curiosity in oneself and others, bringing clients and Arcadians on a journey of discovery and cocreation.
Have a global, strategic, and future thinking mindset.
Are digitallysavvy, entrepreneurial and innovative.
Build organizational networks that are valueadding, engaging and purposeful.
Incorporate a humancentric, experimentationled and continuous learning mindset to lead innovation and transformation.
Actively engage diverse points of view and manage healthy issuesbased conflict.

Drive success:

Create a sense of shared ownership and accountability balancing this with decisiveness and holding others to account for delivery.
Take ownership for own responsibility, creating clarity and motivating and aligning others.
Internalize organizational goals, making them one's own personal stretch goals.
Are outcomes focused and tackle challenges headon.
Demonstrate commercial acumen in general, and specifically with regards to susta