Description
Business Change Senior Associate/ConsultantBrookwood is supporting a well-established financial client.
This role is hybrid remote, around 40% per month in the London office. The contract is 6 months initially with a view for further extension
The day rate is around £650 Inside IR35, negotiable dependent on experience.
Responsibilities:
- Analysing stakeholder groups and driving stakeholder engagement and management to support project and programme delivery.
- Developing detailed change impact assessments and securing a shared view of these impacts across areas impacted, the programme team and the business area sponsoring by the change.
- Developing effective and appropriate change interventions and deliverables in conjunction with the business and programme team to manage these impacts.
- Change activities will include, amongst others: the establishment and leadership of change champion networks, communication plans, engagement materials, training
- needs analysis, go-live readiness plans and supporting the transition to BAU teams.
- Working closely with project and programme teams to deliver change aligned to the
- Change Delivery Framework and collaborating with other areas to ensure a joined-up experience for end users.
- Supporting on the resolution of people related risks and issues.
- Contribution to the Business Change practice, supporting the development of content for capability frameworks, best practice methodologies and deliverable frameworks.
Requirements:
- Good organisational skills: proven ability to manage competing priorities and a challenging workload at times in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience of stakeholder management with a diverse range of stakeholders, overcoming resistance to change and demonstrating the ability to gain trust and understand the issues that matter to people most.
- Knowledge of how change management fits within both a waterfall and agile project delivery framework and experience of project planning. Experience of identifying risks,
- developing mitigation actions and reaching agreement with stakeholders on the management of risks and issues.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills: excellent written and oral communication.
- Experience of writing communication materials for organisation wide audiences.
- Gives and receives information clearly and concisely and encourage open dialogue by listening and engaging in debate as appropriate to create ownership and commitment.
- Works successfully with others, valuing and using the different skills and expertise of colleagues across an organisation to achieve business outcomes.
- Ability to understand structures and business priorities and build credibility quickly.
- PROSCI or other business change qualifications.
- Proven experience of delivering change with an emphasis on cultural and behavioural change.