About the Role
The Change Manager will lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of change activities across complex transformation initiatives, supporting large-scale business transformation and providing leadership to Change Analysts.
Responsibilities
- Lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of business change activities across one or more complex transformation initiatives.
- Develop and maintain integrated change delivery plans aligned to programme milestones and delivery schedules.
- Lead the planning and facilitation of impact assessments workshops, ensuring people impacts are identified, assessed, and validated.
- Develop and maintain workstream business readiness plans, ensuring activities are coordinated across multiple teams.
- Work collaboratively with Programme stakeholders, business leads, and other transformation team colleagues.
- Develop and coordinate stakeholder engagement approaches across business areas, building strong working relationships and maintaining stakeholder confidence throughout delivery.
- Coordinate operational readiness activities, ensuring business teams, support functions, and operational areas are prepared to successfully adopt new ways of working.
- Contribute to the development of change management methodologies, standards, templates, and best practices across the organisation.
Requirements
- Significant experience leading business change activities within complex transformation programmes or large-scale organisational change initiatives.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to coordinate multiple workstreams, priorities, and stakeholders simultaneously.
- Extensive experience leading readiness planning, organisational adoption, and change implementation activities.
- Experience planning and facilitating workshops, impact assessments, and business readiness sessions with a broad range of stakeholders.
- Ability to analyse complex business change and translate it into practical change and readiness activities.
- Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence and build credibility at all organisational levels.
- Ability to confidently engage with senior leaders, Programme Managers, Business Analysts, and operational teams to drive delivery.
- Strong planning, organisation, and programme coordination skills within complex delivery environments.
- Experience supporting large-scale transformation business change (Desirable).
- Experience leading organisational readiness or business adoption activities (Desirable).
- Knowledge of organisational change management principles, methodologies, and frameworks (e.g., Prosci ADKAR or similar) (Desirable).
- Experience using collaboration tools such as MS Teams, Jira, Confluence, Miro or similar (Desirable).
Skills
- Change Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Leadership
- Planning
- Coordination
- Impact Assessment
- Readiness Planning
- Organisational Adoption
- Business Transformation
- MS Teams
- Jira
- Confluence
- Miro
Location
- Glasgow
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid working
- 6 month fixed term contract
Experience Level
- Significant experience
- Extensive experience
Benefits
- Private healthcare
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- Defined contribution pension scheme
- Employee assistance programme
- Financial wellbeing tool (Nudge)
- Flexible benefits platform
- Extra holidays
- PMI family cover
- Cycle to work scheme
- Travel loans
- Gym loans
- Discount site access
- Wellbeing centre platform
About the Company
- ACCA is committed to a workplace culture which is inclusive, diverse, human and connected.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to equal opportunities across our recruitment activities and have a real commitment to ensuring the inclusion and well-being of all employees.
- We have a blended approach to working to support our employees to balance the needs of their job with other aspects of their life.
