Lead Business Change Manager

As Lead Business Change Manager you will be responsible for a programme of business change associated with the introduction of digital signalling. You’ll work alongside existing digital signalling deployments to understand what’s involved and what business change and cultural change activities are required, alongside the challenges associated with implementation and benefits realisation. You will scope up and implement the programme of business change required, including developing templates, guidance and standardised approaches for use by future initiatives. You’ll also provide support and guidance across the portfolio on business change. You’ll be responsible for monitoring progress and tracking delivery outcomes, managing risks, and engaging stakeholders throughout the process.,

• Drive and support the delivery of business change projects and programmes across the industry, including infrastructure, operators and maintainers.
• Identify, plan, and track business benefits and outcomes required for the business change programme.
• Provide programme assurance and manage the benefits realisation plan across the business change programmes.
• Establish and maintain business ownership of benefits profiles and the realisation plan.
• Assess and manage risks to benefits realisation and stakeholder engagement, addressing potential issues and concerns.
• Develop and implement stakeholder management strategies, persuading internal and external stakeholders of the agenda for change.
• Create and implement communications strategies and plans to support the change process.
• Prepare business areas for transition to "business as usual" by developing strategies to protect the investment and facilitate a smooth transition.
  
  Senior project manager with a proven track record of delivering large-scale business change in a complex blue-chip organisation or government function.
• Extensive experience in defining, tracking, and delivering business benefits within change management initiatives.
• Strong results orientation with a passion for delivery.
• Expert interpersonal and influencing skills, securing buy-in across competing interests to enable change.
• Commercial awareness and strategic insight.
• Ability to perform under pressure in a rapidly evolving environment., Experience working across business functions to deliver multi-million-pound business benefits.
• Experience managing teams in a change-resistant, complex business environment.
• Budget management experience.
• Experience of the introduction of ETCS and signalling
  
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Investing in our people is key to enhancing the safety, reliability, and efficiency of our railway system. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact, then this opportunity is for you! About our people and the recruitment process - We're an inclusive employer of choice and we welcome applications from everyone! We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly, as we know traditional working patterns don't always fit. If you want to consider working flexibly, just let us know and we'll do our best to help and invest in your career with us, whilst you have a healthy work life balance. We're also a Disability Confident Leader employer and we'll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles. About GBRX At GBRX, we are driving transformative change within the railway industry. We are seeking a Lead Business Change Manager to manage the delivery of business change across the portfolio - This role is crucial to making sure that that the business outcomes we need to achieve can be successfully delivered. At GBRX, we foster a values-driven culture rooted in curiosity, pioneering spirit, and tenacity. By applying a first principles approach, we tackle the most complex challenges in railway modernisation, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible and driving transformative change. Our mission is to reshape the future of the railway. You’ll work on groundbreaking projects that make a real-world impact. This hybrid role offers a balance of regular in-office collaboration with remote work, encouraging flexibility while enabling you to work closely with our diverse team. Within GBRX, the Digital Signalling Portfolio is a national and cross-industry enterprise with the mission of creating the next generation railway. The European Train Control System (ETCS) digital train control technology enables a safer, higher-performing, more resilient, more efficient, better skilled, more productive, and greener railway. It delivers improved safety, punctuality and resilience, alongside taxpayer benefits through reduction in capital and whole life costs.