Business Change & Transformation Lead

Business Change & Transformation Lead

You’ll lead and manage business change programmes of varying size and complexity and support P3 integration to ensure project management processes and activities are defined and unified. You’ll also help to produce the analysis to facilitate the P3 and Business Change leadership in making direction changes.

Reporting to a Head of Business Change, you’ll run a team managing business change delivery and will hold responsibility for the project success and the relevant tracking and reporting elements.

Your main responsibilities as Business Change & Transformation Lead:

· Develop the strategy for business change for a project/programme and collaborate with other change teams to optimise alignment

· Collaborate with key project stakeholders to develop project business cases, and manage benefits and develop metrics to track success/benefits in a complex situation

· Provide regular and meaningful reports to senior stakeholders on the delivery of business change management plans on the project

· Lead development of business change stakeholder management plans for complex projects.

· Develop and actively manage relationships with key internal and external project stakeholders

· Monitor, analyse and report on stakeholder feedback and insights to aid continuous improvement

· Conduct business change activities on complex projects including; Business Change Complexity Assessment, Healthcheck, Impact Assessment and Business Readiness Assessment. Perform analysis of results and identify required interventions.

· Ensure business change management activities are incorporates into project LCM activities.

· Act as an LCM Business Change Assessor for a business change project.

· Provide coaching and support to project sponsors, project managers and people leaders to help educate and build business change management capability within projects.

Your skills and qualifications:

· Degree qualified (or relevant project management experience)

· Working towards or has gained APM Chartership or equivalent

· ICP3 graduate or progressing towards completion

· CMI Change Management Practitioner or equivalent

· Recognised coaching qualification

Location: Portsmouth

Grade: GG13

Benefits: Our employees receive an excellent benefits package which includes a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. We also offer a range of additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and many local and national employee discounts. Some employees may also be eligible for an annual incentive

Our Naval Ships business

We design and manufacture a range of naval ships and state of the art combat systems and equipment, giving customers the capability to fulfil extensive naval operations. From offshore patrol vessels through to the latest City Class Type 26 frigates that we are building for the UK Royal Navy, and the Australian Hunter Class and Canadian Surface Combatant, we are a business that operates on a truly global platform and can offer a wide range of opportunities where you can play your part in these challenging and exciting projects.

Attracting and retaining the sharpest minds is essential for a globally competitive UK naval engineering business. Our aim is to recruit the very best talent and we welcome applications from a diverse range of people, from all backgrounds, with many different skills, experience and perspectives. We offer the flexibility you need to do what’s important to you, whether that’s job sharing, home working, or simply the ability to flex your start and stop times. Where practical, we’ll support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your full potential.

We are committed to supporting work life balance for all our employees and embrace a range of modern working practices, which aim to enhance flexibility for individuals whilst also enabling business performance. Flexibility provisions vary by role, but include; hybrid working arrangements, flexible working patterns and shift working.

We want to be the leading employer in defence and security for valuing diversity and inclusion. We care about difference in all forms and want to create an inclusive environment where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently under-represented within our industry, including women, people from ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to be a preferred home for veterans and reservists.

For more information on our Diversity & Inclusion work, please click here.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and who have been in their current role for 12 months or longer

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks. Click here for more information on national security vetting levels.