Change Manager - Global Oracle HCM Programme

Change Manager - Global Oracle HCM Programme

Location: London
Working Pattern: Hybrid - 3 days per week on-site in East London, with occasional travel to a West London office
Rate: £300 per day
Status: Outside IR35
Contract: Initially 6 months
Start: October 2026

I'm recruiting on behalf of an established global education organisation for an experienced Change Manager to join a major international Oracle HCM transformation programme.

This is a highly consultative role with the opportunity to shape and deliver the change, readiness and adoption approach across a complex global Oracle implementation.

The successful candidate will act as the key link between the Oracle solution, programme teams and end users, ensuring that new technology, processes and ways of working are successfully understood, adopted and Embedded across the organisation.

The primary focus will be behavioural change and user adoption, supported by a strong understanding of the functional and technical changes being introduced.

Key Responsibilities

. Lead change, business readiness and adoption activity across international Oracle HCM deployments
. Develop and continuously improve the programme's change and implementation approach
. Assess organisational readiness and identify change risks, adoption barriers and areas requiring intervention
. Drive behavioural change and adoption of new systems, processes and ways of working
. Act as the change management link between the Oracle solution, associated services and end users
. Work consultatively with programme leadership, HR, Business Analysts, Oracle specialists and implementation partners
. Support current-state and future-state process mapping and user-impact assessment
. Review solution designs from a change, adoption and user-impact perspective
. Support UAT activity and use feedback to identify potential adoption challenges
. Support Oracle Guided Learning, user guidance, webinars, briefings and other adoption activity
. Develop targeted stakeholder engagement and communications plans across different audiences and countries
. Support successful transition from implementation through to operational adoption and embedding

Essential Experience

. Proven change management experience within an Oracle implementation
. Strong global change management experience across multiple countries, regions or business entities
. Full life cycle implementation experience covering planning, design, readiness, go-live, adoption and embedding
. Strong track record of delivering behavioural change and user adoption within major transformation programmes
. Proven experience acting as the change management link between a product or service and its users
. Experience translating technical and functional system changes into practical business and user impacts
. Strong understanding of behavioural, functional and technical change
. Experience developing and delivering change, adoption, readiness and implementation plans
. Strong stakeholder management skills across senior leadership, HR, programme teams and end users
. Experience working alongside technical, product, programme and implementation teams
. Strong communication, facilitation and influencing skills
. Ability to work consultatively, challenge constructively and help shape the direction of a change workstream

Highly Desirable

. Oracle Fusion HCM implementation experience
. Global HR or HRIS transformation experience
. Oracle Guided Learning (OGL) experience
. Experience supporting UAT and translating testing feedback into change and adoption activity
. Experience creating technical and functional user guidance
. Experience supporting international go-lives across different cultures, processes and levels of organisational maturity

Programme Environment

The Oracle Fusion HCM programme spans multiple countries, brands and legal entities within a complex international organisation.

The implementation covers areas including Core HR, Time & Labour, Payroll and Absence, alongside integrations, reporting, data, testing and deployment activity.

Important Information

. This is not a fully remote opportunity
. Applicants must be UK-based and already have the right to work in the UK
. Visa sponsorship is not available

A full job description will be shared with suitable applicants who closely match the requirements of the role.

*Rates depend on experience and client requirements