Change Lead

As Change Lead, you will be responsible for delivering strategic transformational change programmes across the business. You will lead the Campden BRI’s new Change team to bring broad cross functional change to the business. The purpose of the team is to ensure we translate strategy effectively into robust programme delivery across the business. Ways of working should role model strategy, change management and collaboration.

In this newly created role, you will lead a new central Change team, supporting the organisation to deliver our strategic ambitions. You will lead a small team of direct reports and wider matrixed team, overseeing their deployment to ensure success of our largest and most complex projects. You will be responsible for resource planning and providing ongoing support and escalation for the project managers, as well as maintaining oversight of live projects, ensuring appropriate contingency, coaching project leaders and reporting on performance to senior stakeholders.

You will be accountable for ensuring collaborative and dynamic prioritisation, managing the governance structure, and ensuring you take people with you throughout the change process. You will work closely with the wider teams to flex prioritisation and resource to ensure projects are delivered on time, aligned to the business case and strategic need.

The role will be a broad change role, taking the Campden BRI business strategy and preparing projects to operationalise the strategic aims considering: customer, operations, organisation design, culture, efficient process and metrics. You will look for opportunities for discontinuous change and building broader competitive advantage.

• Lead the translation of the Campden BRI strategy into holistic change projects across operations, people and process
• Ongoing leadership of programme management to deliver large complex projects.

across multiple internal stakeholders, ensuring alignment and buy-in at all levels

• Lead capability building across the organisation to ensure understanding of the project review (stage gate) process and a deeper understanding of the business case/impact of change projects.
• Lead the ongoing development of Campden BRI’s programme management structure and process.
• Build strong relationships with the business units and key stakeholders to influence and work in collaboration.
• Establish a consistent approach to governance and performance reporting of large-

scale projects.

• Resource planning and deployment of internal/external resource to deliver projects, working closely with stakeholders across the business to understand, anticipate and remove obstacles.
• Be an agent for change within the organisation, drive and embed culture change working closely with the HR team and people managers across the business.

• Proven programme management skills with significant experience of leading successful corporate change projects touching to whole business, plus programme managing large complex projects (5-10 years’ experience)
• Programme Management expertise with a proven ability to apply a range of project management methodologies such as agile project management and programme review.
• Knowledge of change management methodologies, tools, and techniques, and the ability to apply these effectively in a variety of situations and different stakeholders
• Experience of working through change resistance and influencing culture
• Experience of influencing organisational culture and behaviour
• Knowledge of organisational behaviour and the psychology of change, and the ability to apply this knowledge to drive successful change initiatives
• Strong commercial acumen and conversant in financial metrics when evaluating return on investment of projects
• Proven ability to establish credibility with senior stakeholders, excellent influencing skills to build and maintain relationships and work collaboratively.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to develop and deliver clear and compelling messages to a variety of audiences.
• Excellent planning and organisation skills to be able to plan and organise work at both a strategic and operational level for yourself and your team.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain positive relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.

• Experience of managing a large team, providing clarity and support to direct reports
• Mentoring and developing project teams across the business, especially where they hit an obstacle.
• Structured, but flexible and adaptable
• Good decision-making skills and confident in making business-based strategic and operational decisions, underpinned by commercial rationale

Desirable criteria

• Recognised project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2, Agile, PMP, AMP etc.)
• Knowledge and understanding of food & drink industry and/or science would be beneficial.

• Hybrid working.