POSITION: Change Lead DEPARTMENT: Ultimate Finance Strategic Delivery RESPONSIBLE TO: Head of Strategic Delivery LOCATION: Nationwide. Hybrid and flexible work options available. OVERVIEW: Ultimate Finance are a specialist asset-based lender, providing a wide range of flexible solutions to support the ambitions of UK businesses. Backed by Tavistock, an international private investment organisation, our vision is to be the funding partner of choice. We have a fantastic opportunity in our fast-paced Strategic Delivery team for an experienced Change lead. This is a high profile and exciting opportunity that would ideally suit someone with solid project management experience, although the role touches all elements of change management, and the primary focus is on ensuring initiatives are aligned with business priorities through robust planning, stakeholder engagement, and governance. The successful candidate will have the chance to work on a variety of projects to drive and lead positive change across all elements of the business product, people, technology and processes. The nature of many projects means working closely with senior managers and Exec sponsors as well as regularly presenting updates to the Exec, so it is a rewarding role for confident, ambitious and self-motivated applicants who want to build on their knowledge and experience to help support our long-term growth aspirations. We expect you to demonstrate our core values of Decency, Enterprise and Brilliance at all times. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Working as part of Strategic Delivery you will be involved in helping deliver our business strategy through the overall integrity of well scoped projects that support key product and group objectives. This will involve working with a range of senior business stakeholders, Product and System Owners to: manage strategic programmes and roadmaps define and plan project requirements develop programme and project schedules organise and motivate project teams provide coaching and guidance to project managers chair working group meetings to manage progress, analysing and mitigating risks and issues activity and resource planning ensure project documentation is up to date report on project progress deliver projects to time, cost and scope and effective handover to BAU You will be expected to: facilitate workshops with teams in the business to properly define problems as well as solutions estimate project costs as part of budget and ensure project benefits are realised outline test strategies, plans and scripts facilitate testing to ensure that the desired results are achieved work closely with project team members to ensure activities are aligned with scope and deliverables engage with business stakeholders to document business process and rules articulate status and requirements clearly and concisely, both to technical teams and executives an overarching focus on driving business outcomes rather than just delivering output CHARACTERISTICS & BEHAVIOURS: The key behaviours required for this role are: Strong communicator Ability to problem solve Self-motivated Team player Committed & confident Adaptable Values driven Organised Customer focussed & people centric Proactive Approachable KEY SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE: Experience working on digital transformation projects Management of team and project members and contractors Workshop facilitation skills, both in person and remote (Mural) Flexibility across differing project methodologies e.g. agile, waterfall, lean Strong analytical, facilitation, and process mapping skills Understanding of project management tools and software Microsoft office suite skills (including Visio, PowerPoint, Word, Excel). Experience managing/supporting projects Experience working closely with customers and suppliers We kindly ask not be contacted by recruitment agencies, thank you.