Accountabilities

• Change Strategy & Planning: Own the change management and adoption approach for each integration, assessing change impact across people, process and systems and building the plans that move colleagues from awareness through to adoption. Ensure change activity is sequenced with, and enabling of, the wider integration plan.
• Communications & Engagement: Design and deliver clear, honest and well-timed communications and engagement across the colleague journey, working with Marketing and Communications and business leadership. Balance the reassurance of continuity with candour about what is genuinely changing, protecting trust and countering “them and us” sentiment.
• Champion Network: Build, equip and lead a network of local integration champions across sites, giving each integration visible, trusted advocates on the ground and a fast feedback loop between colleagues and the programme.
• Training & Readiness: Coordinate the training and business-readiness activity that equips colleagues to operate confidently in new systems, processes and ways of working, ensuring readiness is evidenced before go-live and support is in place through the transition.
• Sentiment Measurement & Insight: Stand up and run colleague-sentiment and adoption measurement, including baseline and pulse tracking, turning insight into targeted intervention and giving leadership a clear read on how well change is landing.
• Stakeholder Management: Work across the integration team, Enabling Function and Service Line leads and acquired business leadership to align messaging, surface people risks and embed change ownership beyond the programme, coaching leaders and managers to act as effective change sponsors.
• Adoption & Continuous Improvement: Track adoption through to embedding, capturing lessons and continuously improving the change and adoption toolkit, templates and approach so that each successive integration lands more smoothly than the last.

Skills And Experience

• Proven experience leading change management and adoption on complex business change, ideally in a high-growth or integration environment.
• Strong grounding in a recognised change methodology (e.g. Prosci/ADKAR or equivalent), applied pragmatically to live delivery.
• Demonstrable experience of communications, engagement and training/readiness planning across a colleague change journey.
• Experience designing and running colleague-sentiment or adoption measurement and turning insight into action.
• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills, with high emotional intelligence and the ability to build trust quickly at all levels.
• Strong stakeholder management, with the credibility to coach senior leaders as change sponsors.
• Highly organised and self-motivated, comfortable operating with autonomy across multiple concurrent changes.
• Previous experience in professional &/or financial services; previous accountancy sector experience would be beneficial.

Desired Experience

• Experience within an M&A or post-acquisition integration environment.
• Recognised change management certification (e.g. Prosci, APMG Change Management or CIPD-related qualification).
• Experience building and leading a change-champion network across multiple sites.
• Experience working in a private equity-backed environment.

Core Benefits

At Affinia, our culture is driven by ambition and a commitment to positively impact all the communities we serve. We are dedicated to the success, development, and wellbeing of our colleagues, helping them achieve their goals and seize the opportunities that come with our growth. Alongside a flexible and inclusive work environment, we offer the following core benefits:

• 25 days holiday (FTE) plus Bank Holidays (Sept-Aug).
• Opportunity to purchase 3 extra days holiday per year.
• Auto enrolment Pension Scheme with True Potential.
• Death in Service.
• Professional membership support.
• Paycare – claim money back for Dental / Optical / Professional Therapies
• Dress for your Diary Policy.

Please note that this job profile is not an exhaustive list of duties but merely an outline of the key components of the role. You may be required by your line manager to take on additional responsibilities when requested.

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