Change Manager

Rimes provides the Intelligence Fabric for Capital Markets, a trusted data network and intelligence architecture that transforms fragmented data, operations and workflows into decision-grade intelligence.

The world’s leading institutional investors, asset managers, and service providers rely on Rimes to help them make better investment decisions that power more than US$ 75 trillion in AUM annually.

The Change Manager leads the people and process side of change across Rimes, ensuring that new products, platform capabilities, and ways of working are adopted successfullywithin Operations, sustainably, and with minimal disruption to clients and colleagues.

Sitting at the centre of Rimes' transformation agenda, the role connects strategy to delivery, translating change initiatives into structured plans, preparing our global teams forwhat'scoming, and embedding new capabilities so that the intended benefits are realised.

This is a hands-on, cross-functional role.

The Change Manager works across product, engineering, data development, data operations, client services, Go To Market, across Rimes' global offices and time zones, tofacilitatechange from concept through to production and into BAU, making sure people are ready, trainedand resourced, so adoption sticks.

Key responsibilities

• Change strategy and planning
• Develop and own end-to-end change management plans for transformation initiatives across Rimes, aligned to overall programme and businessobjectives.
• Assess the scale, complexity, and impact of each change, and define the approach, milestones, and success measures accordingly.
• Conduct change impact and readiness assessments toidentifywho and what is affected — across teams, offices, and client-facing functions — and where risk and resistance are likely to arise.
• Maintain aconsolidatedview of change across the organisation to manage cumulative impact, sequencing, and change saturation across a global, fast-moving business.
• Facilitating change across the organisation
• Act as thecentral pointof coordination for changein Operations, working across Rimes' departments and regions to align stakeholders and remove barriers to adoption.
• Build andmaintainstrong relationships with sponsors, business leads, and affected teams to secure buy-in and sustain momentum across time zones.
• Facilitate workshops, working groups, and stakeholder sessions to shape solutions collaboratively and surface concerns early.
• New products and platform capabilities into production
• Partner with product, engineering, and data teams to plan and manage the transition of new products, platform capabilities, and data services across Data Management Office, Benchmarkand indexdata, Reg Tech, and Investment Intelligenceinto live production.
• Ensure operational readinessforthe people, processes, tools, and support structures needed to run and support the new capability are in place before go-live, including Rimes' 24/7 global service model.
• Ensure clientfacing and service teams are prepared to support clients through changes to the platform and services they rely on.
• Coordinate go-live activities, cutover planning, andhypercaresupport to stabilise adoption after launch.
• Capture lessons learned post-implementation and feed improvements back into future change and product transitions.
• Training, education, and enablement
• Identifytraining and capability needs arising from eachchange, anddefine the enablement approachrequiredfor successful adoption across internal teams.
• Design, commissionanddeliver training programmes, guides, and support materials in partnership with subject-matter experts, product, L&D, andthe People Team.
• Support the adoption of new and AI-enabled ways of working across the investment data lifecycle, helping teams build confidence and capability in new tools and processes.
• Resource planning and readiness
• Work with leaders to plan the resourcesrequiredto deliver and sustain change. Identifyingskill gaps, capacity needs, and role impacts across a scaling global business.
• Ensure teams are appropriately staffed, trained, and equipped tooperateeffectively in thenew environment.
• Communication and engagement
• Develop and execute clear, targeted communication plans that keep stakeholders across Rimes' regions informed and engaged throughout the change lifecycle.
• Tailor messaging to different audiences, explaining the reasons for change, the benefits, and what it means for them.
• Manage resistance proactivelybylistening to concerns, addressing them, and adjusting the approach where needed.
• Measurement, governance, and continuous improvement
• Define and track adoption, readiness, and benefit-realisation metrics, and report on change progress to sponsors and governance forums.
• Identifyand manage change-related risks, issues, and dependencies, escalating whereappropriate.

Skills and experience

• Proven experience leading change management within complex transformation or change programmes.
• Strong working knowledge of established change management methodologies (e. g. Prosci/ ADKAR, Kotter, APMG Change Management).
• Track recordof successfully supporting new products, systems, or ways of working into live operation and embedding adoption.
• Experience designing and coordinating training, enablement, and communication activities.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to engage effectively from front-line teams to senior leadership.
• Comfortable operating across a global, matrixed organisation spanning multiple offices and time zones.
• Strong planning and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple initiatives concurrently in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.
• Able to work autonomously as an individual contributor.
• Confident facilitator and communicator, both written and verbal.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and adapting the approach as circumstances evolve.
• Experience in financial services, fintech, Saa S, or data / technology-led businesses — ideally serving the investment management or buy-side industry.
• Familiarity with enterprise data management, market and reference data, or investment data workflows.
• Experience supporting the adoption of data and AI capabilities within an organisation.
• Familiarity with project and programme delivery frameworks (Agile, PRINCE2, MSP) and working alongside project / programme managers.
• Experience with resource and capacity planning, and organisational design change.

Qualifications

• Recognised change management certification (e. g. Prosci, APMG).

Only selected candidates will be contacted for interviews. We appreciate your understanding. Thank you for considering a career with us.

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