About the Role
As the Change, Comms and Training Lead for the Buyer Experience (Lead to Cash) Workstream of our OneInforma programme, you will develop and execute a comprehensive change management strategy that ensures successful adoption of new processes, systems, and ways of working across the Buying Experience value stream, focusing on the people side of a transformation programme across multiple businesses, ensuring successful adoption, minimising resistance, and embedding new ways of working.
Responsibilities
- Own and execute the change strategy, developing comprehensive change vision, strategy, and governance framework aligned with business objectives
- Conduct cultural assessments, tailor change approaches to organizational context, partner with Business Readiness on workforce implications, and embedding new ways of working into BAU operations
- Execute comprehensive stakeholder engagement strategies, lead detailed impact analysis at role and process levels, and ensure consistent multi-channel communications
- Provide strategic direction on training priorities and delivery, conduct readiness assessments, define go/no-go frameworks, and coordinate readiness activities across workstreams
- Define benefits frameworks, design adoption measurement approaches, monitor engagement throughout programme lifecycle, and integrate new ways of working into performance management
- Design integrated governance structures with decision rights and escalation paths, define success metrics, advise leadership on progress and risks, and manage critical escalations
- Assess change maturity, deliver change leadership development programmes, coach senior managers, and develop reusable change tools and playbooks to build organisational change capability
- Establish Change Champion Network, facilitate change community of practice, and build organizational change muscle through internal practitioner development
- Align change initiatives with other programmes, manage interdependencies, execute formal transition to BAU with knowledge transfer, and establish continuous improvement culture
Requirements
- Previous experience in Salesforce and Lead-to-Cash change and transformation programmes
- Ability to develop and execute comprehensive change management strategies aligned with business objectives, including vision setting, governance frameworks, and success metrics that link change activities to measurable business outcomes
- Expertise in building senior relationships, facilitating leadership alignment, navigating organizational politics, and securing visible executive sponsorship while managing resistance at senior levels
- Capability to assess organizational readiness, understand cultural dynamics, tailor change approaches to fit context, and ensure sustainability by embedding new ways of working into BAU operations
- Proficiency in defining benefits frameworks, measuring adoption through multiple metrics, conducting post-implementation reviews, and integrating new behaviours into performance management systems
- Competence in designing integrated governance structures, defining decision rights, managing escalations, and advising leadership on change progress, risks, and strategic trade-offs
- Skilled in developing and executing engagement strategies across diverse groups (executives, managers, frontline employees) with comprehensive impact analysis
- Ability to oversee multi-channel communications ensuring consistent messaging and two-way dialogue, while providing strategic direction on training priorities and delivery approaches
- Expertise in assessing change maturity, coaching leaders, developing change champion networks, and building sustainable organizational change capability through tools, frameworks, and communities of practice
- Competence in aligning change initiatives with other transformation programmes, managing interdependencies, avoiding change fatigue, and coordinating readiness activities across workstreams
- Capability to lead and develop change teams (Change Managers, Training Lead, Communications Lead, Business Readiness Managers, Champions) through strategic direction, coaching, and performance management
- Expertise in Lead-to-Order, Quote-to-Cash, or similar end-to-end business processes
- Experience with CRM and Order Management systems (e.g., Salesforce Sales Cloud, Revenue Cloud)
Skills
- Salesforce
- Lead-to-Cash
- Change Management
- Transformation Programmes
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Impact Analysis
- Communications
- Training
- Readiness Assessments
- Benefits Frameworks
- Adoption Measurement
- Governance Structures
- Risk Management
- Change Maturity Assessment
- Leadership Development
- Change Champion Networks
- CRM
- Order Management Systems
Location
- 5 Howick Place
Work Type
- In-person
- Remote
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Great community: a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events, our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active diversity and inclusion networks
- Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer, with charity match funding available too
- Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning, mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning
- Time out: 25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days after two years, plus a birthday leave day and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year
- A flexible range of personal benefits to choose from, plus company funded private medical cover
- A ShareMatch scheme that allows you to become an Informa shareholder with free matching shares
- Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance, mental health first aiders, a healthy living subsidy, access to health apps and more
- Recognition for great work, with global awards and kudos programmes
- As an international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the world
About the Company
- Informa is an international business that connects specialists with knowledge, helping them to learn more, know more and do more through live and on demand events, digital and data-driven services and academic research.
- Home to over 14,000 colleagues across 30 countries and a member of the UK’s FTSE 100 group of leading public companies.
- Named one of Britain's Most Admired Companies.
- In Global Support, we provide expert guidance and hands-on support to the Informa Group and Informa’s many business teams across tech, finance, legal, corporate development, HR, communications, operations and many other areas.
- We work collaboratively and flexibly to help our brands serve their customers and help the company succeed.
Equal Opportunity
- At Informa, you'll find inclusive experiences and environments where all perspectives and backgrounds are welcomed.
- As part of this approach and our diversity and inclusion commitments, we are also formally an Equal Opportunities Employer.
- This means we base decisions on relevant qualifications and merit and do not discriminate on the basis of key characteristics and statuses, including all of those protected by law.
