Senior Business Change Consultant

Senior Business Change Consultant

About BIP

BIP is the international consultancy for the 21st century with over 5,000 consultants globally daring to make a difference.

Operating at the intersection of business and technology, we design, develop, and deliver sustainable solutions at pace and scale, creating greater value for customers, employees, shareholders and society.

As a Certified B Corporation, we believe in conducting business for the greater good. We embrace all aspects of corporate social responsibility in a way that permeates everything we do, including not only the way we interact with our own people but with our various communities as well as the environment.

BIP. Here To Dare.

About the role

As an experienced Senior Business Change Consultant, you will play a key role of leading and shaping the people side of transformation with our clients across a range of sectors. The ideal candidate will have experience of providing strategic change, advising and designing business change solutions to ensure that transformational changes and new ways of working, are adopted to realise benefits. Strong delivery leadership skills are required, ensuring that change initiatives are delivered on time, within budget, and to the required delivery quality standards.

Commercial acumen is essential, with experience of business development, proposition development, business case development and responding to bids and formal tenders.

We are particularly seeking candidates that have leadership experience in following change projects;

• Organisational change, implementing new operating models and designing change interventions to ensure successful implementation of new organisational structures, working closely with business leaders and HR teams to align to business objectives.
• Culture change, committed to helping our clients create great places to work, breaking down barriers; working together to translate high-level values, design change interventions that embed into the fabric of the organisation to achieve sustained culture change.
• Behavioural Change- Helping changes and new ways of working to be adopted using creative behavioural change methodology and designing sustainable change inventions.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy Development

• Collaborative with senior leadership stakeholders to under strategic goals and objectives to build and design a change management strategy to maximise adoption of transformational changes
• Conduct analysis of the current change maturity and identify areas for improvement, building change maturity and capabilities.
• Conduct analysis of the current organisational culture
• Working with senior leadership to define desired organisational culture states
• Identification of areas of improvement for culture change and design interventions to move the organisation from the current state to the target state

Delivery Management

• Create and implement a change management framework that includes communication, engagement, training and coaching to drive adoption of new ways of working/transformation initiatives
• Work with colleagues to define and deliver projects. This will include understanding and interpretation of a range of information, both verbally and in writing.
• Work with Project Managers/Delivery Managers to support the production of project plans, schedules and reports for a range of audiences. Including but not limited to project budgets and financial updates, risk and issues logs, and technical specifications to meet the project and client requirements.
• Identify, manage stakeholders and build strong relationships with them
• Identify change sponsors, create sponsorship plans and providing change coaching to managers and supervisors in their roles as change sponsors
• Conduct impact analysis, assess business change readiness and design change plans to mitigate change impact
• Identify and manage anticipated resistance to change and develop resistance plans to ensure adoption
• Support the design, development, delivery, and management of communications and engagement activities to support the change
• Evaluate and ensure user readiness and provide input, document requirements, and support the design and delivery of training and guidance to help upskill those going through the change
• Management of significant process, systems, organisational change, including management of staff through the change and successful implementation of radical and innovative solutions
• Manage the change portfolio and provide regular updates to senior management
• Understanding of benefits realisation and outcome based delivery

Commercial Skills

• Working closely with industry expert consultants to understand the current challenges for our clients and develop business change solutions based on BIPs propositions
• Understand current trends in change management and how these can be applied to improve our Business Change delivery
• Horizon scanning of potential trends and impacts to adoption of all change initiatives
• Experience of business storytelling and commercial narrative
• Experience of business development, proposition development, business case development and responding to bids and formal tenders
• Helping to develop a strong brand for the Business Change Practice, using marketing and sales advantages techniques
• Creating and evaluating business models inline with the company's strategy and seeking business development opportunities for profit potential
• Having financial acumen to manage and navigate financial decision-making and problem-solving

Requirements

BIP are a disability confident employer, and we interview every disabled applicant (As defined in the Equality Act 2010) that meets the minimum criteria for the job:

• Proven experience as a Senior Business Change Manager in a management consultancy firm or working in internal transformation teams leading on the business cases to instigate and kick start large scale transformation delivery
• Prosci/ APMG or other accredited Change Management qualification
• Using analytical skills to interpret data and make informed decisions

Additional Requirements

• Strong problem solving skills
• Demonstrating leadership and management skills to motivate and guide teams
• Ability to work effectively with all levels of the organisation
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills

Benefits

· Regular career reviews and ongoing support from an experienced People Lead with a focus on your progression.

· Hybrid working options with meeting and collaboration spaces available to collaborate with colleagues in Central London

· Personal equipment budget to spend on furnishing your working space at home

· BIP recognises and values its diversity and is committed to offering family-friendly employment policies including enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental pay.

· Comprehensive private medical insurance for staff and Medicash top-up plan (option to include dependants at own cost)

· Employer pension contribution of 6% (subject to minimum 3% contribution from you)

· 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and up to 3 volunteering days per year to dedicate time to a charity or cause close to your heart.

· Two windows per year to buy up to 5 additional days holiday or sell up to 3 days per year

· Employee Assistance Programme. Company paid 24/7 helpline, online portal and confidential counselling to support staff with any work and / or personal issues

· Corporate discounted benefits such as gym and personal health assessments

· Death in Service/Life insurance – lump sum payment of up to 4x your base pay

· Lifestyle Change Gift Voucher – to celebrate big life events

· Long Service Rewards

· Recruitment referral bonus paid for successful referrals.

· Training and development opportunities to support your career and personal development.

· Sales Bonus/Commission

· Paid Professional memberships – your membership to a relevant, professionally recognised body paid for

*Note the above contains current benefit offerings - these are kept under review and are subject to change or enhancement.

Real world, real work, and real value, that’s the BIP commitment on every transformation we do. We deliver good-sense, human-centred strategies, that produce the results. We understand the possibilities can seem endless. Challenges are complex, technology ever evolving, and business goals pressurised and diverse.