Business Change Management Lead (ICAD)

Lead NPL’s Business Change Management profession 

NPL is investing in significant organisational change to strengthen how we work, collaborate and deliver impact. We're looking for an experienced Business Change Management leader to lead our profession, develop our people and help ensure change delivers lasting outcomes across the organisation. 

This is a role for someone who can combine professional leadership with practical delivery experience. You'll work closely with sponsors, business leaders and delivery professionals to help shape major initiatives, strengthen organisational readiness and support successful adoption of change. 

This is an opportunity to shape how Business Change Management is practised at NPL, strengthen organisational capability and help ensure major investments deliver lasting benefits. 
You'll lead a team of Business Change Management professionals, supporting their development, deployment and performance while building a strong and connected professional community. 

Working with sponsors and delivery leaders, you'll provide insight, challenge and support across a diverse portfolio of initiatives, helping the organisation successfully adopt new ways of working. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Lead and develop NPL's Business Change Management profession, building capability through people leadership, coaching, professional development and a strong community of practice.
•  Deploy Business Change Management resources across organisational priorities, balancing demand, capability, organisational capacity and delivery risk.
•  Partner with sponsors and delivery leaders to shape major change initiatives, assess organisational impacts and support successful adoption.
•  Provide organisation-wide insight, challenge and assurance on change impacts, readiness, adoption and benefits realisation.
•  Develop and continuously improve Business Change Management standards, methods and practices, helping to strengthen organisational capability. 
• Lead support and intervention for complex or high-risk change initiatives where outcomes are at risk. 

You are an experienced Business Change Management leader who combines strong people leadership with a practical understanding of how organisations successfully navigate change. 

You are comfortable working with senior leaders, influencing decisions and helping organisations balance ambition with readiness and capacity. You know how to build capability, create clarity and support people through change while maintaining a focus on outcomes. 

Your Experience- we'd like to hear from people with experience in: 

• Leading organisational change across multiple initiatives in a complex environment.
• Developing people, capability and good practice within a Business Change Management team or community.
•  Building trusted relationships and influencing senior leaders and stakeholders.
•  Designing and applying effective approaches to readiness, adoption and benefits realisation.
•  Supporting sustainable change and measurable organisational outcomes. 
• Working collaboratively across delivery, business analysis, portfolio management and other disciplines. 

Why Join NPL? 

This role offers the opportunity to shape and grow an important professional discipline at NPL. 

You'll work directly with senior leaders, influence organisation-wide priorities and help ensure major investments in change translate into lasting benefits. You'll have the opportunity to develop people, strengthen organisational capability and play a key role in helping NPL successfully navigate change in support of its future ambitions. 

We actively recruit citizens of all backgrounds, but the nature of our work in specific departments means that nationality, residency and security requirements can be more tightly defined than others. You will be asked about this throughout the recruitment process. To work at NPL, you will need to obtain BPSS security clearance.

Please note:  Applications will be reviewed, and interviews conducted throughout the duration of this advert therefore we may at any time bring the closing date forward.  We encourage all interested applicants to apply as soon as practical.

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