Change Manager

Company: Canopius Group
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Location: Manchester
Job Description:

The Change Manager is responsible for designing and delivering structured change management approaches across programmes and projects to drive successful business outcomes.

The role focuses on embedding a consistent change framework across the portfolio, maximising employee adoption, enabling new ways of working, and ensuring change is delivered in a controlled, sustainable, and people-centred way

Responsibilities Will Include;

  • Design, implement, and continuously improve the change management framework across the portfolio
  • Drive alignment to a consistent set of methodologies, tools, and standards
  • Embed change management as a core capability across Change, Technology, Data and Operations functions

Change Delivery

  • Lead change activity across multiple programmes and workstreams
  • Develop and deliver end-to-end change plans, including:
  • Communications
  • Training and readiness
  • Adoption and embedding
  • Ensure change delivery aligns with broader programme and business objectives

Stakeholder Engagement & Influence

  • Engage and influence senior stakeholders to drive alignment and buy-in
  • Partner with business leaders, project teams, and SMEs to embed new ways of working
  • Coach leaders and teams through change, addressing resistance and enabling behavioural shift

Adoption & Benefits Realisation

  • Define and track change success metrics (e.g. adoption, engagement, readiness)
  • Monitor progress and intervene where adoption is at risk
  • Ensure initiatives deliver intended business outcomes and benefits
  • Identify opportunities to improve organisational change capability and maturity
  • Implement tools, processes, and methodologies to enhance delivery
  • Analyse ongoing initiatives to identify efficiency and capability improvements and other ad hoc duties as required

Further Relevant Skills And Experience

  • Strong understanding of change management methodologies (e.g. Prosci, ADKAR or equivalent)
  • Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills
  • Ability to operate across Change, Technology, Data and Operations environments
  • Experience developing communication, engagement, and training strategies
  • Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Ability to articulate messages to a variety of audiences
  • Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships across all levels within an organisation
  • Ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal
  • Flexible and adaptable
  • Recognised Change Management certification
  • Experience with large-scale organisation change efforts
  • Experience in Insurance or Financial Services preferred

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Posted: July 4th, 2026