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Business Change Lead - £600-£650 per day - Inside IR35 - Hybrid working from a site in Central London, 2-3 days per week - 6 months initial contract. Our client, an organisation responsible for delivering one of the most significant nuclear new build programmes in the UK, is seeking an experienced Business Change Lead to drive adoption and value realisation across a major Digital & IT transformation portfolio. Working closely with the Head of Architecture and Business Change, you will shape and deliver the Business Change strategy, ensuring that organisational readiness, user adoption, and benefits realisation are fully embedded throughout the project lifecycle. This is a high-impact role, offering the opportunity to influence senior stakeholders, oversee partner-delivered change, and ensure that digital initiatives translate into measurable business outcomes.
Job Responsibility:
Lead business change workstreams across multiple digital and IT projects, ensuring alignment with technical delivery plans
Translate technical solution impacts into clear business change activities, ensuring user readiness and adoption
Deliver core change artefacts including impact assessments, stakeholder strategies, communications plans, and training approaches for system and platform implementations
Ensure Digital Business Cases define clear, measurable benefits and KPIs linked to technology adoption
Establish frameworks to track value realisation from digital investments
Monitor system adoption, usage, and performance, recommending interventions where benefits are at risk
Provide assurance of business change activities delivered by system integrators and digital delivery partners
Challenge partner approaches to ensure alignment with internal standards, governance, and expected outcomes
Ensure change activities are fully integrated with technical delivery, testing, and deployment cycles
Report on business change readiness and adoption across digital programmes through governance forums
Maintain oversight of risks, issues, and dependencies impacting technology adoption and operational transition
Manage business change resources across digital projects
Oversee change budgets in partnership with Project Managers, aligned to approved digital business cases
Engage business and technical stakeholders to bridge the gap between IT delivery and operational teams
Influence senior leaders to champion adoption of new systems, tools, and digital ways of working
Contribute to the development of digital business change capability, standards, and frameworks
Support knowledge sharing across Digital, Architecture, and Change communities
Requirements:
Proven experience delivering business change across digital or IT-enabled transformation programmes
Strong understanding of how technology delivery lifecycles (e.g. system implementation, integration, deployment) impact business change
Experience driving user adoption of systems, platforms, or digital tools at scale
Ability to translate technical change into business impact and actionable change plans
Excellent stakeholder engagement skills across both technical and non-technical audiences
Experience overseeing partner-delivered change within system integrator-led environments
Strong leadership and communication skills
Professional certification in Change Management (e.g. Prosci, APMG, CMI) or equivalent experience
Degree-level education or equivalent
Nice to have:
Experience within large-scale digital transformation programmes
Background in regulated or complex environments (e.g. nuclear, energy, construction, manufacturing)
Familiarity with benefits management and digital value frameworks