AddressChange Management and Communications Analyst
Location:
London
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Not Specified
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Job Description
We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, TalkTV and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.
Your role: This role is within the News UK Finance team. It is a hybrid working model however there will need to be travel to both the London Head Office and our Peterborough Office. Interaction will also be with people in other Finance teams across the globe, including Dow Jones and News Australia.
As Change Management and Communications Analyst , your role will be to support the programme’s Change Management and Communications agenda, embedding this transformational change into News UK, and critically taking News UK colleagues on this important journey.
This role is a once in a career opportunity to play a role on a transformational Finance Systems project.News UK is in the process of investing in and transforming our Finance Systems landscape. We will not only be moving our core ERP system to S/4 HANA, but also implementing new additional systems including those for Procurement, Contingent Workforce and various other activities.
Day to day you will:
Supporting the Business Change Lead and Change & Communication Managers deliver the Change Management Strategy for the Finance Transformation Programme including:
- Carrying out business impact assessments, maintaining business impact assessment tracker, producing business impact assessment reports, with support from Business Change Managers.
Producing and maintaining change mitigation plans and assessing effectiveness of change mitigation activities.
Working closely with the Business Change Managers in developing, delivering, and recording stakeholder engagement plans including building and fostering a business wide change network.
Inputting into and maintaining communication plans.
Producing communication materials, such as Newsletters, emails, intranet articles, posters, infographics, or even videos. Obtaining relevant approvals, delivering communications to stakeholders and assessing effectiveness.
Developing and maintaining programme communication channels including managing shared mailboxes, and microsites.
Support with assessing business readiness readiness for change and identify interventions to embed the change within the business.
Assisting the Business Change Managers and Project Managers in providing transition support including any end-user role mapping and hypercare support.
Working hand-in-glove with the System Implementation (SI) Partner, and their Change Management capability, to ensure that they are fully supported to successfully deliver the change.
All colleagues will have to work together as a team, supported by leadership, to deliver this programme. This also means there may be times when everyone has to support other workstreams at peak load times.
What we’re looking for from you:
We’re looking for a Change and Communications Analyst who is eager to learn and develop their experience in a large scale and complex programme.
- Prior experience of working on business change projects or programmes.
Understanding of business Change Management methodologies, tools and techniques (preferably PROSCI although specific methodologies are not mandated).
Experience of undertaking business change impact assessments and devising relevant change interventions.
Understanding of business change communication practices and has written copy, designed and developed materials and delivered in line with planned dates.
Competent in use of data analysis tools such as Excel use for quantitative analysis, for example using pivot tables, COUNTIF, VLOOKUP.
Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously with effective time Management and prioritisation.
Strong communication, facilitation, and relationship management skills - ability to communicate with people, both verbally and in writing, to senior management level.
Experience of working sensitively and proactively with people experiencing change, helping them to appreciate benefits and to support their journey through the change curve
A proactivity to be curious; pre-empt issues, challenge, ask the right questions and propose solutions rather than wait for answers.
Be a great team player and be happy to get stuck-in to support others - the Finance Transformation Programme is a very supportive and collaborative team - we would like anyone who joins us to build on this culture.
Life at News: At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.
We champion diversity and inclusion , we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.
We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff.
In addition we also offer:
- A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;
Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.
News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.
