AddressThe Role & Key Responsibilities
Job Title: Project Change Lead
Location: Hybrid (Peterborough office based 1-2 days per week)
Are you a Change Lead with an interest in IT? Do you enjoy project related tasks? Have you got experience assisting with Change Management responsibilities, working towards industry recognised standards in the Management of Change?
If so, we have a fantastic new opportunity for you! We are excited to be recruiting a Project Change Lead to join our Global Technology Services team. You will be responsible for the development of policies, procedures and standards across all I.T. projects whilst also providing subject matter expertise in the change workstreams of projects. The role is also expected to represent GTS at relevant events, forums, and discussions across the wider AB Agri project delivery communities.
What you'll be doing:
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to assess, plan and implement system changes for agreed projects
- Produce and deliver change impact assessments and associated action plans
- Promote a positive change culture by ensuring recipients of change are informed & have a positive view of the reasons for change & the benefits of change – ensure no-one is left behind on the change journey
- Engage and build constructive relationships with both the Business and GTS Teams
- Prepare and conduct with the key stakeholders Business Readiness reviews
- Work on the creation and assist in delivering coaching and training sessions, including e-learning for various audiences for projects
- Understand the project requirements and being able to use these to develop training materials
- Create and deploy communication plans for agreed projects
- Develop the communications to all relevant stakeholders working with the internal Comms Teams where relevant
- Identifying suitable communication strategies and building on these, reviewing the plans and delivering reports to the executives
- Experience in developing and implementing change management policies and procedures
- Delivery of change management plans
- Ability to write clear, coherent, and pragmatic communication
- Experience in developing and delivering communication / engagement plans to support the deployment of IT projects.
- Able to use a variety of communications tools to support the engagement process
- Experience in developing training strategies and plans to support the effective delivery of IT projects
- Understanding of Training Needs Analysis and Curriculum Development
- Ability to create learning collateral, both written and e-learning
- Advanced communication and interpersonal abilities
- Ability to adapt to a busy work environment and support multiple priorities
About The Company
Rewarding your passion
When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.
About us
We’re AB Agri, part of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.
Application Notes
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.
When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.
Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
Agencies and media sales
AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
