FILLED Ref # 4012 Interim Global Change Manager

This role will be of interest to anyone with an interest in Change Management who can start immediately on a project in London

Background:

Our client is a leading FMCG business with a global portfolio of brands. They are undergoing a large scale finance transformation project and are looking for a consultant to act as a Global Change Manager for this programme.
The Finance Transformation Programme will fundamentally change the way of working for the finance function at every level of the group. Virtually all finance and management information systems, structures, processes and policies will be adapted to enable the transformation, fundamentally impacting the roles and responsibilities of a global population numbering c 3,000.
The increased communication flow associated with this radical functional reorganisation demands an enhancement of the specialist skills on the team, particularly change management (large scale organisational change) and global communications.
Every possible vehicle will have to be employed to constantly communicate the new vision and functional strategy. Cultural change will be embedded in a single global customer-focused and productivity oriented behaviour model, operating to a single global functional performance model.

Role:

The role of the global change manager will be to design and implement the change management enabling work-streams.

The jobholder should have a successful track record in global organizational transformation. They will be required to:

· Conduct an impact assessment on all parts of the organization and engage with key stakeholders
· Conduct a “change-readiness” assessment.
· Help coordinate the organization re-design, involving management structure, SAP role definitions.
· Establish and implement the global communications plan.
· Identify the training elements required to enable change.
· Establish the change programme schedule and reporting framework within the overall finance transformation programme.
· Ensure the effectiveness of the change management programme through tracking and measurement.
· Ensure alignment of change activities across the programme.
· Ensure ad-hoc functional communications are aligned to the functional strategy and overall objectives of the transformation.
· Leverage learnings across other functions in the overall business transformation programme.
· Building a Finance Transformation Community through innovative international networking tools.

Specific skills/requirements:

· Change management
· Innovation
· Communications planning, channels and execution
· Leading cultural and behavioural change
· Organizational design
· Programme Management

Logistics:

Rate: Competitive rate – Please state target rate for the role
Location: London
Approx duration: To be confirmed – around 3 months initially.