Job Title: Change Lead

Location: Preston - (Hybrid Model) - We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £43,000+

What you will be doing:

· The main objective of this role is to manage a portfolio of change initiatives, ensuring the effective and successful delivery of system, service and process change, the role will work closely with service and functional teams to understand strategic and tactical priorities and co-ordinate change with Employee Business Services suppliers and services

· The expectation is that this role will evolve to operate across the UK and Rest of World, supporting change across the geographic and sector boundaries

· Foster and maintain a strong stakeholder communication network

· Will leverage best practice and application of BPMN toolsets to investigate business situation, evaluate actions and document requirements and ensure structured documentation and governance

· Will plan and lead workshops with stakeholders at all levels for requirements and business process capture and documentation

· Understand both labour and non-labour cost base for the functional area of responsibility

· Analyse the business impact of change requirements from multiple sources; application driven change (releases), business-initiated change, people strategy driven change and continuous improvement initiatives

· Be responsible for ensuring change control and change management procedures are followed within the project team applying appropriate levels of change governance

· Manage the preparation and presentation of change assessments with recommendations to weekly/monthly Change Review Board(s)

· Collect, understand, qualify, and transmit the business requirements for the project to key stakeholders for impact assessment, initiation/statement of work, development, and delivery phases

· Work with the appropriate technical leads and 3rd Party organisations to ensure solutions are properly designed, developed, tested, and implemented

· Validate the design with stakeholders to ensure that the design satisfies the business requirements

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

· Business Analysis professional qualification or proven working experience

· A strong attention to detail and the ability to plan and control workloads

· Stakeholder management and the ability to foster and build relationships

· Evidence of continuous personal development

Desirable:

· Extensive operational experience, ideally in a Shared Service environment

· Project Management professional qualification or proven working experience

· Knowledge and experience of Business Process Modelling Notation toolsets

· Understanding and awareness of the external HR IT market landscape

· Understanding and awareness of organisational financial business planning

Benefits:

You will receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You will also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Shared Services team:

Based within Employee Business Services and aligned to the Human Resources processes and services and technology, the role of Change Lead reports into the Senior Change Lead and is aligned with the function of Project Management.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you will be able to make a real difference. You will be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you will be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: 3rd November 2023

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

#LI-SH1