Change Manager

Our client, a leading organisation within the defence and security sector, is seeking a Change Manager for a contract role supporting a portfolio of strategic change initiatives. The role will focus on delivering well-defined work packages across multiple projects, with a strong emphasis on safety, stakeholder engagement and successful user adoption.

Key Responsibilities:

• Delivering business change activities across approximately two to three projects and workstreams
• Preparing change impact assessments, change management plans and stakeholder maps
• Supporting projects including MVS change activity and airspace initiatives involving airport and air traffic control stakeholders
• Building strong relationships with stakeholders and bringing people on the change journey
• Identifying and managing resistance to change, ensuring solutions are adopted effectively
• Driving delivery forward at pace across defined work packages and high-priority strategic outcomes
• Working alongside communications specialists to coordinate engagement and support effective messaging
• Applying people-focused change practices within a safety-critical environment

Job Requirements:

• Significant experience in business change management or change management delivery
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage people across operational and technical environments
• Experience conducting change impact assessments and developing practical change management plans
• Understanding of people-side change, adoption strategies and resistance management
• Ability to take ownership of established work packages and deliver outcomes at pace
• Experience supporting change across multiple projects or strategic workstreams
• Excellent communication, facilitation, organisation and relationship-building skills
• Prosci experience would be advantageous, alongside an open approach to using established internal change methodologies and tools

Contract Details:

• Contract duration of approximately six to nine months
• Hybrid working, with around two days per week onsite and flexibility according to project requirements
• Opportunity to contribute to important defence and security change programmes
• Work within an established change practitioner team with existing internal relationships