Change Control Lead

Job Description

Job title: Change Control Lead

Location: Warton or Samlesbury – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £54,793 – £60,326+ depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Supporting impacted people and end users with adopting and adapting to new ways of working, including Senior Leaders and Sponsors within the Digital Engineering Programme
• Developing business change management plans independently for the Digital Engineering Programme
• Carrying out business change activities including; Business Change Complexity Assessment, Impact Assessment and Business Readiness Assessment
• Providing regular and meaningful engagement with stakeholders on Digital Engineering Programme, such as Roadshows, Spotlight WebEx’s, All Hands Briefings 
• Conducting regular Culture Surveys & Customer Satisfaction Surveys with impacted employees to gain insights for improvements
• Ensuring business change management activities are incorporated and embedded into Project Lifecycle Management activities

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Hold the APMG Business Change Management Foundation qualification
• Demonstrate relevant business change management experience
• Strong communication and engagement skills
• Ability to think analytically, to resolve problems and to identify solutions and causes
• Possess emotional intelligence, capable of understanding the impact of actions on others
• Experience of negotiating and influencing stakeholders

Desirable:

• Hold the APMG Business Change Management Practitioner qualification, or similar i.e., Prosci

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll 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 Digital Engineering team:

The Digital Engineering Programme is an exciting opportunity working with FCAS, Falcon Works, GCAP & in-service platforms providing the ability for us to design, build, integrate, certify and operate our systems and products at pace. This is all happening whilst we preserve the quality, integrity and affordability of what we do. It means thinking differently and doing things differently. Having a digital backbone to the work we do will mean we can collaborate, innovate and de-risk our engineering. We will use connected data and information and a model-driven approach to support our decision making, meaning we can meet the new needs of our customers quickly, effectively and competitively. It’s a big change and a vital one too. Digitally transforming the way, we do things will enable us to deliver the right solution with model based and synthetic capabilities being the key to our success.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll 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: 14^th November 2024

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.