Job Description

You will be part of the Evolve Transformation programme that has been put into place to deliver against multiple change initiatives. The scope includes system, process, data and people and behavior-related change. The focus is essentially to make Finance a sustainable and enjoyable place to work by increasing the automation levels and improving systems and data integrity while also driving for greater process, systems and data compliance across the business as well as in Finance.

You will play a vital role in this programme, ensuring the successful and sustained adoption of new ways of working within Finance and across the impacted parts of the business required to deliver against the outcomes of the programme. You will be responsible for managing the end-to-end change cycle for the programme, including change impact assessment & action planning, communication, training and support with business cutover activities. You will report to the Programme Director and will manage the Training and Communication Managers for the programme.

You will be responsible for:

• Ensuring alignment with the business-wide change mgmt approach and managing interdependencies
• Creating and managing a comprehensive change plan to support the changes to processes, systems and ways of working.
• Making the change real for senior stakeholders. Articulate what is changing “From and To”. Identify what the change means for stakeholders themselves and their teams
• Coaching stakeholders on change and driving active leadership
• Assessing the change impact of the programme on different stakeholder groups from a people, process & technology perspective. Develop an action plan based on the impacts assessed
• Measuring change readiness throughout the programme, and adoption during deployment

What do you get in return

Hybrid working and flexible working patterns; Private healthcare; Car salary sacrifice and Cycle to Work schemes A range of amazing benefits, including Free Shares and Life Assurance; 15% off your Ocado.com shopping; Company shop offering discounts of up to 70% on groceries from leading brands and major retailers; Exclusive travel, retail and leisure discounts nationwide; Incredible Head Office, complete with onsite cafe and restaurant just 20 minutes by train from Kings Cross; A free shuttle bus from and to Hatfield Station; 22 weeks paid maternity leave and 6 weeks paid paternity leave (once relevant service requirements complete); Enhanced Pension scheme, matching employee contributions up to 7% of salary; Employee Assistance Programme.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Delivery of Change Management full pack method and value realization (Impact assessment, Stakeholder Mgt, Communications, Change Network, Training, Readiness, hyper care);
• Highly analytical and logical approach to work and the ability to deal with ambiguity and apply structure and clarity
• Ability to influence others in a positive way to guide stakeholders and impacted audience to embrace the change;
• Build Relationships: establish and maintain positive working relationships with others, both internally and externally, to achieve goals of transformation within the Organization;
• Plan: Determine strategies to move the organization forward, set goals, create and implement actions plans, and evaluate the process so as the results;
• Develop change management capability during the project in leaderships and users.