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The purpose of our new Head Of Business Change will lead the Barbon programme office, managing the business change portfolio to achieve the strategic goals set out in the five year plan.

To drive change by providing the business with an understanding the impacts of all change, driven externally or internally, on the business architecture, assigning delivery of change to operational teams and prioritising across the entire portfolio of change within the business.

Key Responsibilities:

•    Lead the project managers and business analyst to implement business change in the Barbon business.
•    Provide executive reporting on the delivery of the programme portfolio.
•    Ensure the Barbon change team adhere to Group governance around business change.
•    To organise, manage and control business and IT project teams to deliver large tech transformation projects and programmes.
•    Work closely with our finance function on finance initiatives, including platform migration
•    Help support and implement technical solutions to business problems.
•    To support significant business transformation / change programmes through project management oversight providing guidance and support to project teams.
•    Set, deploy and demonstrate effective governance controls in line with PIB Group Change policy.
•    Develop and maintain a clear stakeholder map highlighting different stakeholder needs and interaction preferences.
•    Manage supplier teams or relationships, where applicable, throughout the Lifecyle of the project or programme.
•    Understand and challenge where necessary the business processes and requirements of users/stakeholders during initiation of the project.
•    Work closely with workstreams/project team to agree robust, realistic, and agreed project plans.
•    Managing capacity and scheduling resources of technical engineers, delivery partners and suppliers
•    Ensure Consumer Duty is considered at the genesis of all projects, including consideration and the documentation of customer journeys.
•    Develop and maintain project documentation.
•    Provide regular project status updates to stakeholders and senior leadership.
•    Coach team members on Agile principles and best practices.
•    Continuously improve project processes and methodologies.
•    Take ownership and responsibility to ensure all project constraints, actions, risks, dependencies, and issues are identified and then managed.
•    Demonstrably be highly collaborative, motivated and delivery focused.

Experience and Knowledge:

•    At least three years’ experience leading a business change function.
•    Excellent ability to communicate with all levels of stakeholders confidently and effectively to build trusted relationships throughout the lifecycle.
•    Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure successful project delivery.
•    Facilitate project team meetings.
•    Identify and mitigate project risks and issues.
•    A self-sufficient individual, able to work autonomously with little to no supervision.
•    Qualifications in APMQ, Prince2 or equivalent would be desirable.
•    Proficient at using MS Project and MS PowerPoint.
•    A strong working knowledge and experience of operating Waterfall and/or Agile projects.

Further information:

As well as a competitive salary we offer the following benefits -
•    Competitive holiday allowance with the annual option to buy additional days 
•    Death in Service benefit of x4 salary
•    Company pension scheme
•    Enhanced maternity and paternity leave packages
•    A flexible benefits package which allows you to add additional benefits to your overall package
•    Our benefits portal offers discounts on technology & electronics, cinemas, restaurants, days out, mortgage advice, travel and many more
•    Referral schemes 
•    Discounted rates on PIB products
•    We offer a first-class employee benefits and welfare package to support our employees with financial management, cycle to work scheme, counselling support, health screening, will writing, menopause support, books, stopping smoking and much more
•    If supporting the local community, engaging with charities and having the opportunity to ’give something back’ interests you, you have the opportunity to take an extra day to support this with a Volunteering day.
•    We also offer a wide range of discounts including a kids pass – giving you discount to over 4500 attractions and activities, discounts at hairdressers and beauticians, climate change projects with lots of other options to choose
•    PIB has a comprehensive learning & development framework, including professional study options and apprenticeships which are available to all employees, and which will support your career development
•    Being a part of our PIB Community Trust, we support fundraising where you can apply for grants from PIB Group towards your chosen charity
•    PIB Group are committed to improving their environmental impact in a responsible way. From the individual actions that our colleagues take every day through to installing the right facilities across our premises, there are many measures in place to help reduce PIB’s carbon footprint.

We are an equal opportunities employer, committed to hiring a diverse and inclusive workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, gender, religion, disability, age, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.

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