Lead Business Change Professional

Location: Preston or Frimley. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Circa £52,000

What you'll be doing:

• Developing and delivering business change collateral such as business change plans, change impact assessment, communications plan, stakeholder assessment and training plans for the project as part of a significant IT transformation programme of work.
• Being responsible for business change delivery within a medium to large sized project, work package, or supporting in delivering part of a complex change programme or business transformation initiative, reporting the business benefit realisation.
• Working with key stakeholders to agree the core project benefits and benefits management plan, including agreed KPIs to measure benefits have been met.
• Setting up and facilitating a cohesive change network and change champion programme as part of a wider change adoption plan.
• Ensuring that business change management is consistently embedded, delivered and assured through appropriate and justified standard approaches across the project.

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Business Change experience and knowledge of Change Management theory and methodologies, processes, policies and procedures.
• The ability to effectively carry out Business Change Management tasks of medium to high complexity and provide guidance in those areas.
• A proven track record of managing change within enterprise-wide IT projects.
• Effective influencing and stakeholder management experience.
• APMG or other suitable Business Change Qualification such as PROSCI at Practitioner level at least.

Desirable:

• Degree educated.

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Business Change team:

You will be joining an experienced change management office of Business Change and Business Analyst professionals, delivering end to end change management support and capability across enterprise technology projects. This is an opportunity to work within a key enterprise-wide technology transformation project. You will work with multiple stakeholders globally and you will help drive and implement new ways of working across a large complex business.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you'll be able to make a real difference. You'll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Closing Date: 24th April 2025. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.