Change Readiness Lead

· Support the delivery and coordination of change and engagement plans aligned with programme milestones and business readiness priorities.

· Partner with Change Leads, Engagement teams, Business Process Owners, and Functional leads to ensure clear, consistent and audience focused communications across impacted teams.

· Support stakeholder engagement activities that build awareness, understanding and readiness for new processes, systems and ways of working.

· Lead the execution of the Change Management Strategy and associated tools and frameworks

· Drive the development and implementation of a robust change readiness assessment, change impact assessment and change action plans.

· Identify and manage change risks and resistance themes through proactive mitigation planning.

· Coordinate readiness activities across workstreams, ensuring dependencies, risks, actions and milestones are tracked and managed effectively.

· Consolidate readiness insights, stakeholder feedback and adoption themes to support programme decision making and go live preparedness.

· Track and report on organisational readiness, highlighting hotspots, progress, and required interventions for senior decision-making.

· Embed behavioural change practices (nudges, reinforcement plans, leadership actions) to ensure changes move from initial awareness to sustained adoption.

· Validate that training, communications, and readiness activities are sequenced to support smooth transition into new ways of working.

· Ensure adoption measures are defined, tracked, and used to inform post‑go‑live support and reinforcement activities.

· Partner with SME’s, trainers, and change networks to support consistent delivery and sustainable adoption across markets and functions.

· Support go‑live and post‑go‑live readiness activities to ensure business continuity, enable a smooth transition into new ways of working, and provide insights for hyper care planning and longer‑term adoption monitoring.

· Collaborate with Training & Adoption teams to ensure readiness activities align with learning, onboarding and adoption plans.

· Prepare readiness reports, status updates, RAID inputs for programme leadership and stakeholder forums, using qualitative and quantitative insights to support planning, prioritisation, and decision‑making.

· Proven experience in change management, business readiness or organisational transformation roles within large scale programmes.

· Experience supporting global transformation initiatives, ideally SAP S/4HANA implementations within global FMCG organisations.

· Experience co ordinating cross functional readiness activities across multiple workstreams, markets and stakeholder groups.

· Deep understanding of change impact assessments, stakeholder engagement, adoption activities, business readiness planning and execution.

· Strong facilitation, coaching, and influencing capabilities across diverse teams and cultures.

· Analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret qualitive and quantitative insights to support decisions making.

· Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, able to build trusted relationships with stakeholders at all levels.

· Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively within fast-paced and evolving transformation environments.

· Familiarity with SAP implementation lifecycles and associated methodologies.

· Professional certification in change management (e.g. Prosci, ADKAR, APMG Change Management) – preferable.

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