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Business Change Lead

Employer
Guidant Group
Location
London (Central), London (Greater)
Salary
Up to £650 per day depending on experience
Closing date
12 Feb 2021

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Clearance Level
DV, SC
Sector
Central Government
Job Type
Contract

Job purpose 

If you care about making organisations stronger, delivering impact and getting things done, if you are an experienced in Business Change and for a new challenge, if you like to try new and better ways to do things, then this is the job for you. 

My role 

As the Cloud Business Change Lead, I am proud to have an exciting role in driving the organisation towards the 2030 Vision, harnessing the power of the cloud, (both culture and technology) for maximum benefit. I work in a busy, fast-paced environment with a varied, supportive and highly motivated team. I can see how the work I do contributes to the delivery of the new capabilities and ways of working the organisation needs to keep ahead in this fast-changing world. In addition, the work the team is doing is ground-breaking; I’m helping us to do things we’ve never done before. As part of a self-managing, agile team I’m using my business change experience in planning, leading and doing work to accelerate the whole organisation’s Journey to the Cloud.  

Who I am 

I enjoy being part of a self-managing team that exists to make an impact on the world by transforming our organisation and the wider community. I perform best in highly active and creative teams, reacting to unexpected events that require innovative thinking, decision making and problem solving: 

  • I am persuasive with strong influencing skills 
  • I am able to build effective relationships across an organisation 
  • I am understanding and empathetic 
  • I have strong communication and listening skills 
  • I am comfortable dealing with people at all levels within an organisation  
  • I enjoy learning and helping others learn by experimenting and sharing knowledge and experiences 
  • I enjoy understanding problems and finding new ways to solve them myself or enabling others to do so 
  • I am enthusiastic about learning new skills 
  • I am comfortable working in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment and adapt my role accordingly, recognising that it will evolve and change

What I do 

I am part of the Cloud Hub team, who are at the heart of the organisation’s Journey to the Cloud. My team and I anticipate and solve problems and find better ways of doing things. I: 

  • I contribute to the transformation strategy and strategic planning of change interventions   
  • I help to craft the change narrative for the Journey to the Cloud and to bring people along it 
  • I develop change plans as part of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 
  • I identify, engage and understand service users and stakeholders, and their goals and needs  
  • I plan, deliver, drive, monitor and adjust change activities  
  • I contribute across a wide spectrum of change activity  
  • I report progress on change activities as part of my team 
  • I work as part of my team to continuously improve by identifying innovation opportunities, leading new initiatives and experimenting with innovative approaches 

Experience Required 

Essential  -  experience of three or more of the following: 

  • Leading similar initiatives in industry or government, particularly in high compliance regimes  
  • Effecting change through personal intervention 
  • Engaging and coaching a broad range of stakeholders to enable the change 
  • Benefits realisation 
  • Identifying requirements and user needs 
  • Developing and delivering presentations to varying sizes of audience, both physical and virtual 

Desirable 

  • Highly conversant with digital transformation and leadership 
  • ·Familiarity with recognised business tools and techniques  
  • Experience of working within the Scaled Agile Framework environment (SAFe) 
  • Using Lean Start Up and innovation approaches 
  • Familiarity with cloud adoption approaches 

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