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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Business Change Lead - **Company:** Addition Solutions Ltd - **Location:** Derby, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £67,359.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Microsoft Software, Oracle (Applications), PRINCE2, SAP (Applications), Workday - **Published:** August 29, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5859989915 ## About the Role * Significant hands-on business change experience within large-scale IT, ERP, HR, Finance, Procurement or digital transformation programmes. * Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, including the confidence to engage senior stakeholders without direct authority. * Proven ability to rebuild relationships, facilitate workshops and bring people with you through behavioural and organisational change. * Experience delivering change impact assessments, readiness assessments, communications and training. * Good understanding of change management methodologies and practical adoption techniques. * Experience working with enterprise platforms such as SAP, Workday, Oracle, Microsoft or similar. * Strong programme delivery skills across governance, risk, issues, deployment and transition. * Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to make complex information clear for different audiences. * A commercially minded, pragmatic approach - comfortable getting into the detail rather than staying at strategy level. * Experience of benefits realisation and embedding change into BAU. * Global or multi-site deployment experience would be advantageous. * Change, programme or project management qualifications such as Prosci, APMG, MSP, PRINCE2 or Agile would be beneficial. ## Description A major technology transformation is underway within a highly complex engineering environment, and this role will help make sure the change lands properly across the organisation. You'll be hands-on, working closely with stakeholders, technology teams and communications colleagues to turn transformation plans into lasting business adoption., * Lead the people, process and behavioural change activity across a large-scale IT transformation programme. * Rebuild and strengthen stakeholder relationships across different levels of the organisation, from senior leaders through to operational teams. * Work alongside programme, project, technology and business teams to make sure change is practical, understood and adopted. * Partner closely with the communications team to create clear, consistent messaging and support a smooth transition. * Assess how new systems and processes will impact teams, roles and ways of working, identifying areas that need additional support. * Develop and manage stakeholder engagement, communications, training and organisational readiness activity. * Coordinate change champions and business change networks to build ownership and momentum across the organisation. * Plan and support deployment, transition, cutover and hypercare activity, keeping operational disruption to a minimum. * Track adoption, readiness, risks and benefits, providing clear reporting through to programme governance. * Identify resistance and change risks early, taking practical action to address them. * Ensure new capabilities and processes are successfully embedded into business-as-usual operations. * Support benefits realisation by connecting technology delivery with measurable improvements for the business. ## Related Videos - [The user in the eye of the Cargo1492 storm](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/96-the-user-in-the-eye-of-the-cargo1492-storm) - [ShapeShift: Reinventing Agile for a B2B SaaS Scale-Up](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1655-shapeshift-reinventing-agile-for-a-b2b-saas-scale-up) - [Destigmatizing the Workplace: Building Real Inclusion](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1492-destigmatizing-the-workplace-building-real-inclusion) - [Turning People Strategy into a Transformation Engine](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1755-turning-people-strategy-into-a-transformation-engine) - [WeAreDevelopers LIVE - How DevRel Makes Tech More Human](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2149-wearedevelopers-live-how-devrel-makes-tech-more-human) - [From Punch Cards to AI-assisted Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/611-from-punch-cards-to-ai-assisted-development) ## Related Articles - [System change: restart as developer?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/39-system-change-restart-as-developer) - [Best Companies to work for in London: Top 25 Companies in 2023](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/187-best-companies-to-work-for-in-london-top-25-companies-in-2023) - [UK Business Culture and Etiquette](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/326-uk-business-culture-and-etiquette) - [Data Analyst Salary in the UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/278-data-analyst-salary-in-the-uk) - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [What’s the Difference between a Junior, Mid, and Senior Developer?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/238-what-s-the-difference-between-a-junior-mid-and-senior-developer)