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Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements: Previous experience delivering organisational change within transformation programmes.Demonstrable experience driving complex change and transformation, beyond ITIL or application change management.Experience establishing, building or embedding a Change & Adoption function, capability, operating model or framework.Strong stakeholder engagement and communications capability.Experience with change impact assessment, organisational readiness and adoption.Strong governance, RAID, risk and dependency management skills.Experience managing deliverables, commitments, dependencies and deadlines across complex transformation activity.Ability to produce clear, evidence-based reporting and provide senior stakeholders with accurate delivery insight.Ability to identify problems early, recommend mitigations and escalate appropriately.Persistent and adaptable approach, maintaining delivery momentum when priorities or requirements change.Ability to work effectively in a demanding transformational environment.A background primarily in ITIL or application change management without broader organisational transformation experience will not meet this requirement.SC Clearance required. Responsibilities: Establish and maintain the Change Operating Model, including the change lifecycle, methodology, governance, standards, RACI, reporting, templates and toolkit.Lead stakeholder identification, impact assessment, engagement strategies and communications.Conduct readiness assessments, identify adoption barriers, and establish adoption plans and measures.Embed Change & Adoption into transformation, discovery and mobilisation.Coordinate engagement with Service Delivery Managers and operational stakeholders.Support service transition, including transition readiness, risks, dependencies and service landing.Provide governance, RAID management, executive dashboards and evidence-based reporting.Provide leadership insight into organisational impacts, readiness and adoption.Link adoption activities and measures to benefits realisation.Maintain a visible backlog, manage commitments and delivery dates, and escalate slippage early.Identify and track dependencies, owners and associated risks.Proactively escalate risks, recommend mitigations and track actions through to resolution.Maintain auditability and transparency across change activity.Maintain accurate forecasts, apply standard RAG definitions and align reporting with governance standards.Build, govern and continuously improve the Change & Adoption capability across the Engineering Transformation Office, ensuring it becomes operational, measurable and consistently adopted across interventions. Technologies: SupportITILRAGSAS More:
We are recruiting a Change Lead / Change & Adoption Lead to join SAS Strategy as part of a transformation within the Engineering Transformation Office. The role will establish and embed a Change & Adoption capability across a transformation portfolio. This is an organisational transformation role, not ITIL or application change management, and involves introducing new change functions rather than operating an established application change process. The environment is demanding, with changing priorities and requirements. The contract is remote, pays £650 per day, is inside IR35, and has a contract length to be confirmed. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited is acting as an employment agency and employment business.
last updated 42 week of 2026