Senior Business Change Project Manager

UK Midlands

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As part of my clients Business Change team, be responsible for delivering change initiatives across a full life cycle.

Manage the transition of change

Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to embed change

Senior Business Change Project Managers plan and coordinate initiatives from inception to delivery; managing activities, resources, budget and people to achieve desired outcomes and enable strategic initiatives
They provide oversight and challenge to project operations, performance and viability in terms of outcomes, delivery, benefits and financial management
They partner with stakeholders to deliver high value, strategically aligned customer outcomes, and achievable benefit realisation
Using their understanding of change and delivery management methods and tools, they ensure efficient & effective project delivery

Key Responsibilities/Competencies:

Gain an in-depth understanding of the business and technology landscape and have a strong knowledge of the variety of distribution channel target operating models.
Ensure project alignment to strategic pillars, roadmap and outcomes
Align teams/stakeholders around a clear vision and outcomes, defining OKR’s to continually measure progress/mitigate risk
Actively ensure benefits are realised, tracking through delivery to completion, ensuring effective BAU handover post closure

Planning and Scheduling:

Plan in accordance with Governance processes, within a variety of project/product delivery frameworks.
Plan with foresight, applying lessons learned
Track progress/milestones in-line with outcome related planning
Proactively ensures that mitigating actions are developed and integrated into the plan
Resource forecasting/Understand resourcing impacts to budget
Identify/Assess risks to delivery
Assess the ability of plans to deliver benefits

Change Assurance and Control:

Actively assesses and communicates the impact of the change on the portfolio and provides challenge & insights back to the team
Ensure best practice change management is Embedded throughout the life cycle
Actively assess the impact of the change on the business, provides challenge & insights back to the team
Articulate decisions/direction and ensure they are being reported to the correct level of delegated authority

Decision Making and Developing Solutions:

Makes key decisions in tight timescales with available data, balancing risk and speed
Respond to emerging info and re-evaluate decisions
Develop practical solutions & implementation plans

Business Case development:

Ensure stakeholder requirements are fully considered in the business case for change
Effectively size the case for change, engage with stakeholders to determine measurable benefit plan, evidence cost and projected timeline for spend
Identify and quantify challenges, impacts and risks to change delivery and integration and provide alternatives

Business Readiness:

Leads stakeholder engagement and understands business readiness impacts on projects
Develops business readiness plan/supports Change Manager in developing
Partner with teams and stakeholders to coach, motivate, and collaborate around outcome delivery and blocker removal

Benefits Management:

Ownership of benefits definition and management approach in the business case
Identify and mitigate internal and external risks
Define benefit profile and associated OKR’s to ensure accurate progress tracking

Senior Project Manager