Business Change Manager - #2165760

Business Change Manager (Acquisitions)

Opportunity Summary

An ambitious, professional services organisation is building a brand-new Integration Management Office to support an aggressive growth strategy through acquisition.

This is a rare opportunity to join at the beginning of that journey and help shape the people, culture, change and integration framework that will underpin future growth. You'll play a key role in ensuring acquired businesses transition successfully into a scalable operating model while maintaining engagement, productivity and cultural alignment.

You'll have the opportunity to influence integration strategy, establish best-practice change frameworks, engage with senior stakeholders and help build a repeatable acquisition model that will support significant organisational growth over the coming years.

Details

• Salary: Competitive (dependent on experience)
• Location: Hybrid working, with travel to Midlands offices and acquisition locations across the UK
• Office expectation: Approximately 2 days per week in office/on-site
• Permanent position
• Opportunity to help build a newly established Integration Management Office
• High visibility role working closely with senior leadership
• Significant scope for long-term career growth as the integration function expands

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement change management strategies for acquisition and integration programmes.
• Lead stakeholder engagement activities across leadership teams, operational functions and newly acquired businesses.
• Conduct organisational impact assessments and identify key change risks and mitigation actions.
• Establish communications plans that support adoption, engagement and organisational readiness.
• Drive cultural integration initiatives and support alignment of values, behaviours and ways of working.
• Coordinate readiness activities ahead of key integration milestones.
• Support training planning, knowledge transfer and user adoption activities.
• Monitor engagement, adoption and change outcomes, providing insight and recommendations for improvement.
• Produce executive-level reporting, dashboards and governance materials.
• Partner with programme, project and business teams to ensure successful integration outcomes.

Requirements

Essential

• Proven experience delivering business change, transformation or organisational change programmes.
• Strong stakeholder management experience across multiple levels of an organisation.
• Experience developing and executing structured change management approaches.
• Background in business readiness, communications, training and adoption activities.
• Ability to operate effectively within complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Relevant change management qualification or demonstrable professional expertise.

Highly Desirable

• Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, integrations or large-scale organisational change.