SENIOR CHANGE MANAGER NEEDED

SENIOR CHANGE MANAGER- Northampton Based
Our client is looking for a Senior Change Manager to join their team to define the content and direction of change projects in order to support the high performance delivery of change projects.

Main responsibilities will include:
· Establish and anchor the change project to facilitate transition to the target state and decrease a project's deployment risks.
· Includes defining the target state, identifying change structure roles and responsibilities, assessing and classify impacts of the change on stakeholders and stakeholder groups, defining the appropriate change initiatives to manage the impacts of the change and developing and updating the Change Plan.
· Manage activities in a change project.
· Includes engaging stakeholders in the change effort and ensuring they ready to adopt the coming changes, measuring and reporting change progress, assessing business readiness and supporting change adoption.
· Plan and support labour relations and/or employee relations discussions, as necessary.
· Identify behaviors needed to enable the change and coach and prepare individual leaders to lead the change and facilitate alignment of project objectives among the leaders.
· Project manage all aspects of a change project, including project planning, estimating, budgeting, resource allocation, financial management and time management
· Coach and mentor Change Managers on the skills and capabilities required by high performing change professionals

The successful candidate will have experience of effectively providing change management and project management, possess expertise in change management methods and tools as well as sound commercial judgment and overall understanding of the Financial Services Industry

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SENIOR TEST MANAGER

SENIOR TEST MANAGER
Our client has an opportunity available for a Senior Test Manager to join their team to identify, quantify, plan and control all business testing related activity on change projects in order to support the high performance delivery of change projects.
Main responsibilities will include:
· Lead business testing functions on multiple concurrent complex projects
· Evaluate business requirements in devising a business test strategy
· Assess design and implementation options to ensure that the test strategy addresses the full requirement
· Oversee the delivery of pragmatic business and operational design solutions which maximise benefits while achieving the desired business outcomes 
· Assess and design new business change processes, systems, products and services on a change project
· Ensure all governance, risk management, controls and compliance requirements are considered during test planning and execution
· Develop and implement new business change processes, systems, products and services to support testing on a change project.
· Provide an aggregate high level view of the combined proposed testing strategies and ensure alignment with the change solution.
· Manage interdependencies across projects/programmes and leverage synergies across projects/programmes to maximise return on investment.
· Review the to-be business process design to understand organisation/role impacts and create role descriptions for business process roles
· Manage and provide objective feedback on Testers during each project ‘assignment’
The successful candidate will understand at a high level the interface between complex business needs and the complex legal and regulatory environment in which the business operates, have an overall  understanding of the Financial Services industry as well as  being able to juggle priorities, multi- task and flawlessly execute at speed
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