Business Change Manager

7 Months (Extension Available)

Brentford (Hybrid Working)

£595p/d Max via Umbrella

In Supply Chain we work together to provide vital and highly valued support to drive our GSK’s strategic priorities. We’re looking for agile, high-performing talent with Change Management background and experience to join our team based in GSK Headquarters, Brentford. The team works with people across all functions within Supply Chain as well as our commercial & manufacturing businesses worldwide to make the most of our SAP tools and processes to drive performance and transformation.

We are looking for proven change managers with the ambition and capability to build a world class change management function. You will bring creativity and analytical capabilities to solve complex business challenges and possess strong communication and people skills to engage and inspire diverse global teams to enable effective embedding & adoption of change to realise global value.

As part of a modern, technology-led Supply Chain function delivering world-class service, you’ll have the opportunity to develop your skills to progress in your career while working in a diverse and culturally rich environment with some of the best and brightest in the field.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following

The role of the Change Manager is to develop and execute the required change & communications activity to successfully deliver and deploy the specific projects they have been assigned to, within the required businesses and markets to ensure business leaders are regularly engaged and the change network and impacted employees are ready, willing and able to adopt and comply with the new system, processes and organisational structures.

Role Expectation:

1.    Ensuring that the centrally defined change & communications approach and tools are applied appropriately across the project and/or are modified as appropriate in agreement with the Change & Management Lead.

2.    Responsible for assessment of requirements, detailed planning and delivery of the change and communications activities, reporting progress against plan and managing risks and issues in close collaboration with assigned Programme and Project Managers, Subject Matter Experts, deployment leads and wider project team.

3.    Managing a complex stakeholder landscape, where stakeholders are engaged effectively to ensure understanding, buy-in and a smooth path for project delivery; engagement requirements may also include third party vendors and business services hubs.

4.    Identifying, mobilising and managing the change network for the project

5.    Creating and executing a business change impact assessment and change action plan to ensure change is successfully mitigated

6.    Executing business readiness activities to measure whether impacted employees are ready for the change, creating and delivering adoption plans as necessary.

7.    Effective management of all communications activities including, audience and stakeholder identification, development of a communications engagement strategy, key messages, materials and channels while ensuring content is created in line with GSK’s tone of voice, tools and brand guidelines. 

8.    Ensuring appropriate engagement with delivery partners across the business, e.g. Supply Chain functions, GPOs, Finance, Commercial, HR, Tech, ERP Learning, Comms, etc

9.    Focus on continuous improvement of methodology and feedback of lessons learned within Supply Chain Transformation team and broader change teams

10. Engage with the wider GSK change and comms management community to drive best practices and learnings, and to ensure compliance to global policies, principles and tools.

11. Ensuring that our change work remains focused on:

a.    Enabling colleagues to feel and perform at their best, whilst feeling valued and supported

b.    Enabling the successful delivery of our change programmes to help establish a smooth transition: new organisation structures, processes, systems, ways of workings and behaviours

c.    Avoiding (or significantly minimising) business performance dips as colleagues get used to new ways of working

We would like to speak to you if you have these experience and skills

-     Deep subject matter expert in project change and communication management.

-     Proven track record of delivering transformational change on multiple large-scale programmes (e.g. SAP ERP deployments, offshoring and outsourcing)

-     5 years+ experience of change management and communications delivery; some training design / delivery experience is advantageous

-     Experience of human centric design, agile and lean methodologies preferred

-     Ability to inspire cross-functional, virtual, global, and diverse teams 

-     Relationship and stakeholder management, ( e.g. persuading and influencing skills)

-     Experience of working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment

-     Proven problem-solving and negotiation capabilities along with a process-focused perspective

-     Proven ability to deliver results in a complex / global environment and to solve complex business and process problems.

-     Prosci Change Management Certification (preferred but not essential)

-     Project management certification (PMI/CAPM or PMP, PRINCE2) (preferred but not essential)

-     Agile (SAFe/SCRUM) and Lean Six Sigma (preferred but not essential)

-     Knowledge & expertise in Supply Chain systems and processes advantageous

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