SAP Change Lead (OCM)

SAP OCM Change Lead (Contract) - Outside IR35

Role Title: SAP OCM (Organisational Change Management) Change Lead Contract Length: 12 Months IR35 Status: Outside IR35 Location: Hybrid - 2 days per week on-site across surrounding counties, 3 days remote Start Date: ASAP

Overview

We are seeking an experienced SAP OCM Change Lead to support a large-scale SAP transformation programme. The successful consultant will lead the Organisational Change Management (OCM) workstream, ensuring business readiness, stakeholder engagement, adoption, and successful transition to new SAP-enabled processes and ways of working.

Working closely with Programme Leadership, Business Process Owners, SAP Functional Leads, and key business stakeholders, you will define and execute the change strategy across multiple business functions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end SAP OCM workstream across the programme lifecycle.
• Develop and implement the overall Change Management Strategy and Roadmap.
• Conduct stakeholder analysis and establish engagement plans for impacted groups.
• Assess organisational change impacts arising from SAP process, system, and operating model changes.
• Define and deliver business readiness assessments and adoption metrics.
• Develop communication strategies and oversee delivery of change communications.
• Create and manage resistance management and stakeholder engagement activities.
• Collaborate with Training Leads to ensure effective learning and capability development plans.
• Facilitate workshops, leadership briefings, and business engagement sessions.
• Support cutover, go-live, hypercare, and post-implementation adoption activities.
• Provide regular reporting to Programme Steering Committees and senior leadership.
• Identify and mitigate change-related risks and issues.

Required Experience

• Proven experience leading OCM workstreams on large SAP transformation programmes.
• Strong understanding of SAP S/4HANA implementations and business transformation initiatives.
• Experience working across complex stakeholder environments.
• Demonstrable expertise in:
• Change Impact Assessment
• Stakeholder Management
• Communications Planning
• Business Readiness
• Training & Adoption
• Resistance Management
• Benefits Realisation
• Experience working with senior executives and programme leadership teams.
• Strong facilitation, communication, and influencing skills.
• Ability to operate independently within a consultancy-style delivery model.

• Proven experience leading OCM workstreams on large SAP transformation programmes.
• Strong understanding of SAP S/4HANA implementations and business transformation initiatives.
• Experience working across complex stakeholder environments.
• Demonstrable expertise in:
• Change Impact Assessment
• Stakeholder Management
• Communications Planning
• Business Readiness
• Training & Adoption
• Resistance Management
• Benefits Realisation
• Experience working with senior executives and programme leadership teams.
• Strong facilitation, communication, and influencing skills.
• Ability to operate independently within a consultancy-style delivery model.