Business Change Manager

Introduction

Together, we’re working to welcome millions more passengers, while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability. At Heathrow, you can be part of this – providing solutions that make every journey better for millions each year. That means ensuring we meet the changing needs of the passengers, colleagues and partners who use our airport to work, travel, trade, shop, eat, explore and connect. Our Solutions team covers project management, process improvement, business change, technology, cyber defence, masterplanning, infrastructure and procurement. It brings together people with the skills to deliver prestigious and often large-scale projects, from transforming terminals to making big reductions in our carbon emissions.

Job Description

The Business Change Manager plays a critical role in supporting Heathrow’s transformation, which is guided by six strategic beacons: Digital Future, People and Planet, Capacity, Winning Team, Value for Customers and Creating Capacity. The role provides clear direction and priorities to make every journey better and create an extraordinary airport fit for the future. Change spans Infrastructure, Technology and Process, driving continuous improvement across all areas of the airport.

The Business Change Manager advises, facilitates and enables business teams to lead effective change across Heathrow’s airport‑wide Transformation priorities, supporting successful adoption through close collaboration with intended users, a test‑and‑learn approach across the digital portfolio, and a structured change implementation approach for infrastructure and process change. Operating in a highly complex, matrixed environment, the role works across business functions, project teams, suppliers, airlines and industry partners to deliver measurable value and sustainable outcomes for colleagues and passengers.

Your role will involve

• Advise, facilitate and enable business teams to lead and own business change across a digital or infrastructure portfolio, ensuring alignment to Heathrow’s Transformation priorities and strategic outcomes.
• Drive adoption and benefits by working closely with users and stakeholders to understand needs, behaviours and pain points, applying user‑centred, test‑and‑learn approaches for digital change and structured change‑implementation for infrastructure and process change.
• Shape and mobilise a prioritised portfolio of initiatives, contributing to service design, discovery, proposition development and operational concept definition prior to delivery.
• Act as a key partner to Product, Delivery, Data, Technology and operational functions, embedding business‑change considerations throughout the lifecycle and acting as ‘concept guardian’ to protect intent and realise benefits.
• Lead planning, coordination and reporting for business‑change activity, capturing change intent, outcomes and benefits, maintaining transparent status, risks, issues and dependencies, and supporting clear value propositions.
• Build and maintain strong cross‑functional relationships across functions, suppliers and partners, establishing change networks over time and acting as a visible advocate for change, continuous learning and long‑term adoption across Heathrow.

These Skills Are Essential

• Proven experience of advising, facilitating and enabling business teams to lead and own business change across digital products or services, infrastructure or process change, ensuring alignment to strategic priorities and measurable outcomes.
• Strong experience of working closely with users and stakeholders to understand needs, behaviours and pain points, applying user‑centred, test‑and‑learn and structured change‑implementation approaches to drive adoption and maximise realised benefits.
• Demonstrated experience of mobilising and shaping a diverse portfolio of digital, operational, infrastructure and process‑led initiatives, including early‑stage problem definition, solution shaping and readiness activities prior to formal delivery.
• Strong ability to partner effectively across diverse stakeholder groups, embedding business change considerations early and throughout the lifecycle of initiatives in complex, matrixed environments.
• Experience of capturing change intent, outcomes and benefits, and supporting the development of clear and compelling value propositions and business cases across portfolios.
• Proven capability to build and sustain strong cross‑functional relationships across business functions, suppliers and partners, and to establish change networks that foster dialogue, shared ownership and long‑term organisational change.

About Us

There’s something so special about working at the world’s most iconic airport. Its sights. Its sounds. Its constant air of excitement. Heathrow is an amazing backdrop to a career filled with unique opportunities. Every day, you’ll discover a world full of fresh possibilities and end the day buzzing with stories to tell, as you encounter people from all cultures, nationalities and experiences. A world full of pride for what we do and no end of exciting career prospects to explore. It brings out the best in all of us and inspires everyone to deliver on our ambitious plans. Together, we’re working to welcome millions more passengers while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability.

Our rewards

We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits that will support you now and in the future. As well as performance‑based annual bonuses and our longer‑term Share in Success Bonus plans, we also offer generous annual leave allowances and market‑leading pensions. With family‑friendly policies, access to private health insurance and a wide range of wellbeing tools, we’ll support you to be at your best inside and outside work. And of course, we’ll provide varied learning and development opportunities too. Here you’ll find everything you need for a fulfilling career journey that can take you in exciting directions.

Working Location

Our Hybrid working approach offers the opportunity for colleagues in some roles to work from home for an average of two days a week, providing the flexibility to work in an agile way whilst ensuring we deliver for the operational needs of Heathrow. Working arrangements vary from team to team and will be confirmed during the recruitment process. You’ll need to be based in the UK and within a commutable distance to Heathrow.

Sustainable Travel to work

Heathrow’s Sustainable Travel Guide sets out easy and sustainable travel options that everyone can access.

Equal Opportunities

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all. We believe that diverse talent makes us stronger – not least because we welcome passengers from all corners of the globe, every single day. Heathrow is an accessible place to work. With five diversity networks, we champion inclusivity and celebrate individuality.

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