At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead change management for a major SAP transformation project, ensuring effective communication and stakeholder engagement.
- Company: Join Greencore, a leading convenience food creator with a vibrant culture.
- Benefits: Competitive daily rate, remote work flexibility, and opportunities for travel.
- Other info: Dynamic role with significant impact on company culture and operations.
- Why this job: Be at the forefront of a transformative project that enhances customer and colleague experiences.
- Qualifications: Proven experience in change management and ERP roll-outs, especially S4 HANA.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
Contract: 6 months (Inside IR35)
Rate: £800-£1000 (per day)
Location: London/Spalding (the role benefits from remote working with expectation to travel to different sites when required)
Why is this an exciting time to be a Head of Change & Communications at Greencore?
Greencore has set the vision to build a world class SAP solution, through Project Vision, that delivers outstanding customer and colleague experience, technology innovation, integrated & comprehensive solutions to ensure our operations run without impact.
We are seeking a skilled and passionate Senior change and comms lead for the Project. The Senior change and comms lead will be a highly experienced transformation professional, with a strong and demonstrable background delivering large, multi-year, business critical transformations.
The Change and Communications Lead is overall responsible for leading the entire portfolio of change management interventions, covering stakeholder engagement, communications, role mapping, process visualization and training on Project Vision with the intent of minimizing business disruption and supporting the effective introduction of S4 Hana across the business to an engaged stakeholder group.
As a dynamic, self-starter, the individual will have direct experience of leading change in relation to an ERP roll out, and the ability to communicate with, and influence senior stakeholders, and build critical relationships in the business to foster high degrees of trust and collaboration.
What you'll be doing:
- Leadership of the overall change management strategy and how that brings together the workstreams of change, stakeholder engagement, communications, and training
- Lead regular status updates as part of the project reporting cadence
- Assurance of quality outputs and use of best practice tools, templates and methodologies across all change enablement workstreams
- Take the lead in identifying and driving significant cultural shifts
- Own the overall ‘narrative’ for Project Vision and ensure the provision of high-quality communications plans and assets in collaboration with the comms lead
- Responsible for collaborative ways of working with overall Greencore communications lead, to ensure that updates on the project compliment overall communications plans and maximise existing channels
- Support activities to promote effective stakeholder engagement across Project Vision team, in collaboration with the transformation director
- Take responsibility for overall stakeholder management plan, and progress reporting in relation to stakeholder engagement
- Direction, planning and execution of the communications plan, ensuring full integration with other workstreams and alignment with critical path activities
- Overall accountability for the effective provision of high-quality training which is exactly suited to the needs of Greencore stakeholders in collaboration with the training lead
- Responsible for developing the strategy to ensure that all training attributes remain relevant and up to date in the future
- Lead close collaboration between the Project Vision training lead, and overall Greencore training team
- Quality assurance on all training attributes
- Oversee the deliver of all process visualisations in collaboration with the process leads
- Take responsibility for developing strategies to ensure process visualisations and role mapping activities are designed in a way that they are sustainable practices and future fit (e.g. including exploring the use of technology to support with this)
- Provide quality assurance on effective completion of role mapping activities
What you'll need:
- Able to influence without formal authority (persuasive, consensus builder, good communicator)
- Excellent organisational skills, including attention to detail and ability to see the ‘big picture’
- Strong people management skills
- Proficient in project management processes and associated tools (e.g. Microsoft project, Jira)
- Deep understanding of how to manage change relating to technology implementations
- Strong understanding of change management processes, specifically stakeholder management
- Experience of leading change in relation to an ERP roll-out (preferably S4 HANA)
- Experience in leading cultural shifts
- Experience of managing large scale transformation programme would be preferred
- Previous experience of working at a senior management level would be preferred
- Highly organised with the ability to see ‘the big picture’ and a strong focus on outcomes
- Logical, analytical, and multi-tasking
- Highly people focused
- Must be able to think and plan strategically; yet possess a detail-oriented, pragmatic management approach.
- Ability to travel to sites across the UK as required
Head of Change and Communications - S4/Hana Transformation (Contract, Inside IR35) in Spalding employer: Greencore Group
Greencore is an exceptional employer, particularly for the Facilities Manager role at our state-of-the-art Warrington site, known as the Italian centre of excellence. We prioritise employee growth through comprehensive training and development opportunities, alongside a vibrant work culture that values diversity and collaboration. With competitive salaries, generous benefits, and a commitment to wellbeing, Greencore offers a rewarding environment where you can thrive and contribute to making every day taste better.
