Operational Change Manager - INSIDE IR35

An Operational Change Manager is required to support the organisation, achieve its strategic objectives by ensuring the business is ready to receive the agreed change (address business problems and opportunities), ensuring that change initiatives are successfully assessed and implemented to enable them to be embedded in the organisation. This is a hybrid role required 2 days per week on sited in Knutsford and is INSIDE IR35 so you will need to work via an FCSA accredited umbrella company. Key Skills and experience: *Excellent stakeholder management skills *Identification and analysis of business impact and opportunities that require change within the organisation. *Development of business readiness strategies that will help to ensure the successful implementation of change initiatives. *Communication with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that they are informed about change initiatives and that their needs and expectations are being met. *Collaboration with Client Readiness, Operational Readiness & Tech Delivery to ensure business, sales, operations, client servicing and functional partners are prepared for a smooth transition of technology delivery into BAU (including Target Operating Model, Training, Communications, Service Agreements.) . *Management of resistance to change, ensuring that stakeholders are engaged and that their concerns are addressed. *Review of business readiness plans and status reports in conjunction with change delivery managers to ensure business readiness activities completed on time including newly identified risks, issues and dependencies. *Collaboration with project teams to ensure that change initiatives are aligned with project objectives and that change management activities are integrated into project plans. *Provision of guidance and support to business stakeholders, ensuring that they have the necessary skills and knowledge to implement change initiatives successfully. LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds. Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.