Job title: Change Manager- Operational
Job Location: Knutsford, UK – Hybrid mode.
Job Type: Contract [Inside IR35]
The Operational Change Manager (AVP) is responsible for delivering change activities supporting the development of CSO. They will be responsible for ensuring all aspects of assigned are scoped, planned, tracked, and managed to successful completion.
The primary key Accountabilities/responsibilities are:
* Will lead in the creation, communication and implementation of Operational Change Initiatives in CSO.
* Will work with the PMO to support initiative as necessary; creation & maintenance of detailed project plans covering all deliverables (process, people, IT, control) and dependencies while actively assessing and managing risk; removing / reducing barriers towards realizing goals, ensuring mitigation actions are in place & managed.
* Deliver status reporting by providing against milestones, and transparency of risks and issues and will have to coordinate direct and matrix management of internal and third party resources.
* Will be responsible for creating communication materials for multiple levels of stakeholders and actively manage day to day activities while ensuring delivery accountability is in place.
* Will ensure that the projects and initiatives meet the agreed delivery requirements and that acceptance are managed against agreed acceptance criteria and to a defined plan.
The Required Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications are as follows:
* Experience of working on Operational Change activity with good understanding of Client's Change frameworks.
* Relationship building, stakeholder management and great communication skills.
* Through Agility in approach and thinking, demonstrate ability to challenge and offer alternative creative solutions to progress at speed and with quality.
* Ability to make evaluative judgements based on analysis to resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience.