Senior Change Lead - Change & Transition

Salary: £56,000 - 85,000 per year

Requirements:

• Significant experience leading change on large-scale transformation, technology, integration, or merger-related programmes.
• Proven track record of designing and delivering organisational change strategies that protect service continuity and drive adoption.
• Strong experience leading cross-functional change, communications, and training teams.
• Expertise in organisational readiness assessments and change impact analysis.
• Experience engaging with senior stakeholders and executive leadership teams.
• Ability to influence decision-making and provide evidence-based recommendations.
• Strong programme governance, risk management, and reporting capabilities.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• NHS/Healthcare experience preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Define and own the overall Change and Transition Strategy aligned to programme objectives, milestones, and risks.
• Lead the development and delivery of integrated change, communications, and training plans across all workstreams.
• Conduct and oversee organisational change impact assessments, translating findings into actionable transition roadmaps.
• Ensure consistent and effective communication strategies are delivered across programme strands, with particular focus on Day 1 readiness.
• Direct change, communications, and training teams to deliver targeted, role-based engagement and enablement activities.
• Provide regular reporting and assurance to senior leadership on organisational readiness, change risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans.
• Drive stakeholder engagement activities to build awareness, adoption, and commitment across impacted teams.
• Support transition planning and early-life stabilisation activities through effective reinforcement and change control measures.
• Manage competing priorities and change impacts across multiple programme workstreams.

Technologies:

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AgileSource are seeking an experienced Change Lead to drive the people and business change activities across a major transformation programme. This is a contract role for 9 months or more, paying £450-£500 inside IR35 with an immediate start. We are looking for a senior leader to define and drive the change strategy for a major Corporate Technology transition programme, ensuring organisational readiness, effective stakeholder engagement, and minimal disruption to business operations throughout the transition. The role focuses on leading the change, communications, and training workstreams, with accountability for Day 1 readiness and early-life stabilisation.

last updated 34 week of 2026