Eden Scott
Change Manager (Financial Services)
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Job Title: Change Manager
Company Overview
Eden Scott is delighted to be working with a well-established and highly respected financial services organisation in Edinburgh to recruit an experienced Change Manager.
About the Role
This is an excellent opportunity to join a forward-thinking organisation undergoing an exciting period of transformation. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in developing and embedding a robust change management framework, ensuring strategic, operational, regulatory, and business change initiatives are successfully delivered across the organisation.
Offering a collaborative culture, flexible working arrangements, an outstanding benefits package, and genuine opportunities for professional development, this role is ideal for an experienced change professional looking to make a lasting impact.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, promote, manage, and continuously enhance the organisation's change management framework, methodologies, standards, and governance processes.
- Establish a consistent approach to project delivery, change control, risk management, and benefits realisation.
- Partner with programme management colleagues to implement effective change governance and reporting processes.
- Provide accurate and timely reporting to senior leadership and governance forums.
- Lead key strategic and operational projects from initiation through to implementation and review.
- Manage project plans, timelines, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, and benefits.
- Oversee all phases of the project lifecycle, including business case development, requirements gathering, planning, governance, testing, training, implementation, and post-project evaluation.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Create and execute stakeholder engagement and communication plans.
- Facilitate workshops, steering groups, and project meetings.
- Collaborate effectively with third-party suppliers and service providers.
- Ensure all projects operate within established governance frameworks and regulatory requirements.
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Person Specification
Essential Experience
- Extensive experience in a Change Manager, Project Manager, or similar transformation-focused role within financial services.
- Proven experience designing and implementing change management frameworks, methodologies, and processes.
- Strong project management expertise across the full project lifecycle.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and collaborate at all levels.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal.
- Experience leading workshops, governance meetings, and cross-functional project teams.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities within a fast-paced environment.
- Successful completion of basic vetting checks.
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Desirable
- Professional Change Management or Project Management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2, MSP, APM, Agile, Prosci).
What's on Offer
Alongside a highly competitive salary, our client offers an attractive and comprehensive benefits package, including:
- Generous defined benefit pension scheme
- Hybrid working model combining home and office working in central Edinburgh
- Flexible working arrangements
- Discretionary variable pay award
- Inclusive family leave policies covering maternity, paternity, adoption, and surrogacy
- Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family
- Employee recognition and reward schemes
- Recruitment referral bonus programme
- Access to a flexible benefits platform offering healthcare options, gym discounts, retail discounts, cycle-to-work, and technology schemes
If you're an experienced Change Manager looking for an opportunity to shape organisational transformation within a leading financial services environment, we'd love to hear from you.
Please contact Karen Kerr at Eden Scott for a confidential discussion or apply today with your CV to Karen.kerr@edenscott.com.
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