Adoption and Change Manager (Contract)

Our enterprise client is for an experienced Change Manager, responsible for planning and delivering business change and adoption activities within technology and transformation programmes, ensuring new services, systems and ways of working are embedded, adopted and sustained.
This role is delivery focused and hands on, supporting one or more projects at a time, while contributing to the growth and maturity of the ACM practice through consistent ways of working and continuous improvement.

Start Date: September 2026
Duration: 120 days
Pay Rate: £379/day (PLEASE NOTE: Employer NI is paid for by the client)
Total Daily Earnings: £430/day (includes rolled up holiday)
IR35 Status: Inside
Location: UK wide (Depending on client / project)

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver end to end change management activities for assigned projects, aligned to client’s ACM framework, ensuring adoption is planned alongside technical delivery.
• Produce and maintain core change artefacts including:
• Change impact assessments.
• Stakeholder analyses and engagement plans.
• Communications plans (in collaboration with Communications Managers where applicable).
• Training and readiness plans.
• Embed change activities into project plans, working closely with Project Managers, PMO and delivery leads to ensure realistic sequencing and a sustainable pace of change.

Essential:

• Demonstrable experience delivering business change or adoption activity within technology, digital or organisational change programmes.
• Practical experience producing and executing change plans, impact assessments and stakeholder engagement activities.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to work confidently with operational teams, managers and delivery colleagues.
• Understanding of how change management integrates with project and programme delivery (Agile, Waterfall or Hybrid).
• Clear, structured communication skills – written and verbal – with the ability to translate technical change into business relevant impacts.

Desirable:

• Experience working in regulated environments with complex stakeholder landscapes.
• Formal certification in Change Management (e.g. Prosci).
• Experience supporting training, communications or adoption measurement activities.
• Exposure to large scale IT or digital transformation initiatives.

Soft Skills:

• Delivery focused, pragmatic and outcomes driven.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and evolving requirements.
• Collaborative and team oriented, able to work across disciplines.
• Proactive in identifying risks and proposing solutions.
• Committed to quality, consistency and continuous improvement.

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Job Reference: RL8255