Business Change Lead

Job summary

Are you an expert in public sector procurement improvement and transformation, who is looking to utilise their experience in this space?

This position sits within our Procurement team which encompasses delivery of framework agreements, consultancy, and a full end to end procurement service to the NHS. These procurement services are being delivered by skilled teams through efficient and effective technology platforms to ensure that the procurement solutions we deliver meet the needs of our customers.

This is a pivotal role in our expansion where you will help to craft and define our focus. Working at a senior level, you will enjoy forging relationships, influencing action, and getting to the bottom of customer and business needs to enable delivery at its finest.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.

Main duties of the job

What you'll be doing:

• Working as part of a team of Business Change experts, supporting client and Shared Business Services transformation activities.
• Providing support to help customers build a defined and agreed vision, clear picture of future state and a fit for purpose Target Operating Model (TOM).
• Design and plan the change management interventions required to successfully embed change as well as supporting the change gap analysis and impact assessment against the TOM.
• Supporting development of customer mapping and management, including comms planning.
• Planing change interventions ensuring a people and benefits focus.
• Running and supporting L&D requirements e.g. create/deliver training plans and materials as required.
• Supporting the delivery of relevant assessments and materials to enable the change i.e. business readiness assessment, new process maps, training, benefits realisation plans.
• Enabling the handover of plans and capability, support transition and develop continuous improvement plans with service delivery teams.

What youll bring:

• Experience in all aspects of business change (processes, methodologies, change control, project scoping, project planning etc.).
• Strong experience of procurement change programmes, focusing on process, systems and procurement tools change - for example leading change or implementation of P2P, S2C, S2P solutions.

About us

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if youre interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) was created by the Department of Health and Social Care to deliver corporate services to the NHS. A unique joint venture with Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital services and software development, we make life easier for NHS employees, patients, and suppliers, and deliver value for money to the taxpayer. Proud members of the NHS family, we provide finance & accounting, digital, procurement and workforce services to more than half the NHS in England, and our solutions are underpinned by cutting-edge technologies and our teams expertise, in-depth understanding of the NHS, and commitment to service excellence.We share common values and unity of purpose with the rest of the NHS family, are committed to being a force for good, and are dedicated and empowered to act responsibly and sustainably at organisational, team and individual level.

Would you like to join us on our journey?