Business Change Manager

Role: Change Manager
Location: Remote but able to travel to Corby / London and other sites
Full Time, Permanent

Competitive salary plus excellent benefits

Reporting to the head of delivery this role will lead the business change activity in our project team and support the delivery of a critical strategic project.

Our goal is to ensure that RS’s activities change with the times and business needs, all of this will be supported by the change management community, business owner and project management.

This role is all about developing your change and project management skills.

What will you be doing?

The business change manager will be working on a number of different projects and initiatives you will be responsible for coordinating business change across the planned activity with the goal of achieving positive outcomes for the team.

This role sits within the Product & Supply chain function of the business and handles business change across EMEA, your other responsibilities will be:

• Develop and manage a team from all different functions in the business.
• Ensure this team remains proactive, effective and committed to driving and embedding change.
• Deliver on and champion the highest possible standards utilising all available tools & skills.
• Identify and manage risks, issues and other dependencies within the project functions.

The business change manager will also need to manage and liaise with internal and external stakeholders across EMEA.

What do I need to be successful?

You will need to have significant experience in business change and continuous improvement alongside demonstrable project management knowledge and exposure. We are not looking specifically for industry experience but it would be ideal for it to be more based around logistics, retail or supply chain.

We are also looking for someone with:

• Relevant qualifications: PROSCI, CMI, 7S’, APM, PRINCE2 & MSP
• Knowledge of Agile / Waterfall / Hybrid methodologies
• Ability to motivate and drive others to succeed
• Works well under pressure
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• Strong relationship building skills

The business change manager will need to communicate across all levels and areas of the business with this coming hand in hand with the ability to effectively challenge and build credibility and demonstrate integrity.

Apply now and become an essential part of what we do here in the RS Project Management team.

What’s in it for you?   

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits, you’d expect from a FTSE listed company, including an annual performance bonus, private healthcare, and generous holiday, in the UK&I, we’ve just introduced several new Family Friendly Policies including:  
  

• Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation  
• Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post-diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette’s syndrome  
• Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause  
• Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery and gender confirmation surgery  

We are RS   

At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.  

Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.   

We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.  

We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities – to solve problems.   

We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do. 

Come and join us and over 2,000 colleagues in the UK – and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.