People Change Manager - 10 month FTC

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Come and join us as a People Change Manager to support the delivery of our transformation journey. This role is an opportunity to help shape our businesses future on a fixed term basis of 10 -12 months.

The role is offered on a hybrid basis, with 1-2 days a week spent in our Crick Head Office and the rest from home.

The Role:

As our People Change Manager you’ll need to have a passion for change management, with hands-on experience working with multiple stakeholders, ideally across multiple projects. 

You’ll be supporting a number of exciting projects as part of our transformation programme, working alongside project managers to create consistent change process and structure that’ll ensure we successfully land relevant changes. You’ll be at the forefront of leading and implementing our culture and engagement initiatives, supporting our colleagues through business change and ensuring they have the relevant training and capability to help realise potential benefits for the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic People Change Manager, overseeing change management activity for a portfolio of projects, tracking project interdependencies and working alongside project managers to ensure successful delivery.
• Engage with colleagues across the business and support leaders through organisational, process and system changes.
• Design and implement cross-project change management plans that include communication strategies, training programs, and stakeholder engagement initiatives.
• Manage risk assessment and mitigation associated with change and drive continuous improvement using data to enhance employee performance and well-being.

You:

As a People Change Manager, you’ll have an innovative and agile approach to identify opportunities. You will work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders to drive and implement various initiatives, ensuring that they are successfully integrated into the company's culture and embedded in our ways of working for the future. 

Skills and competencies

• Experience in planning, coordinating and executing changes within a complex multi-site environment

• An ability to manage change across a number of interconnected but varied projects (systems implementation, product delivery, workforce transformation)

• Previous experience in SAP implementation would be ideal but not essential.

• Hands-on and practical approach, with a strong desire to be actively involved in the work.

• Previous HR Generalist experience.

  It is likely you will have worked in any of the following roles: Change Manager, HR Change Manager, Human Resources Change Lead

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs if they feel they don’t have every one of the required skills. All Highbourne Group companies are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. So if you’re interested in this role but think that your previous experience doesn’t completely match - apply anyway. You could be just the person we’re looking for!

Us;

From boilers to bathroom suites, tubing to towel rails and everything in between, City Plumbing has all the products our customers need to complete the job. And we have all you need to build a successful career! We’re proud of our reputation for selling quality plumbing and heating products to both trade and retail customers and we’re super excited about our future. We put our colleagues at the heart of all we do, giving them all the tools they need to be successful, happy and feel rewarded in their career with us.

Benefits Package and Cultural Environment:

• Discounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailers
• Life assurance
• Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme, we look out for each other
• Complete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages development
• Flexible working options
• A business striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self
• And more!

#BelongWithUs

We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it. 

We are committed to best practices in recruitment and undertake Basic Criminal Record Disclosures for candidates that are offered employment within our branches that undertake deliveries for British Gas. This check will only be undertaken after the acceptance of an offer of employment.