Are you an experienced Change or Business Readiness Lead or Business Partner? Do you have a track-record of leading business readiness/user adoption workstreams within key transformation projects? Let Informed Recruitment help you to achieve your potential with an exciting opportunity for a Business Partner for Business Readiness & Change role to work as part of team in a customer-focused company in the North-West. As a specialist provider of resource to the Property and Technology markets, we are delighted to be partnering with a social enterprise offering you the opportunity to be effective and gain experience as part of a modern digital environment within a company that is investing and developing within itself and its employees.
The purpose of the role is to shape, develop, and own business readiness change activities for project and programmes, and ensure that the business is effectively prepared to realise and embed the targeted benefits. You will help lead on the definition of the overall change management strategy, plan the portfolio to support the realisation of benefits, and develop a framework to monitor change adoption. Other day-to-day responsibilities will include leading on communications to sustain the high level of engagement with key stakeholders needed to drive the process of process and technological changes; lead on stakeholder analysis and change impact assessments, training strategies, and transition plans; define operational readiness measures to assess readiness to receives change; produce artefacts to document milestones; ensure the business is ready to respond to the requirements of the technical cutover plan; and lead triage to address training and post go live support issues.
Must Have
* Previous commercial experience working autonomously in a Business Change capacity covering projects of diverse sizes and complexity.
* Experience in leading Business Readiness or Change adoption workstreams.
* Excellent stakeholder engagement, relationship building and communication skills to work in a Business Partner capacity,
* Knowledge of change management methods, tools, and standards covering readiness, planning and measurement
* Previous experience delivering the successful adoption of process and technology change.
* Recognised Change Management / Project Management Certification, such as APMG, PRINCE2 Practitioner, APMP, MSP.
Nice to Have
* Experience if cloud adoption projects
* Proficient in use of delivery and collaboration tools (DevOps, JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, MS Teams, Skype)
As an individual you will have excellent communication skills both verbally and written. You will be able to lead, engage, and influence at all levels, whilst having excellent team and people management skills. Alongside a competitive salary you will receive an impressive benefits package that includes generous leave entitlement, health cover, professional development, and qualification support. This role will be hybrid based, with two days working in an office in Greater Manchester and three days working from home. If this role suits you then please apply without delay for the opportunity to continue your career with a friendly, driven, and client-driven organisation.
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Business Partner – Change & Business Readiness