Senior Change Leader – On-Site Midlands (6-Month Contract)

Company: Sumitomo Electric
Apply for the Senior Change Leader – On-Site Midlands (6-Month Contract)
Location: Wolverhampton
Job Description:

Position Title

Change Management Specialist

Duration

6 Month Contract

Location

Wolverhampton

Eligibility

Applicants MUST have proof of immediate, on-going and valid eligibility to work full time in the UK and travel within the EU.

Duties

  • Responsible for planning and executing business change management, driving adoption for new manufacturing systems.
  • Focuses on changes to business processes and tools.
  • Applies change management methodologies, communication planning, organisational readiness assessment and stakeholder analyses.
  • Ability to develop communication and change management plans, and oversee or monitor the execution to ensure adoption and minimal disruption of normal business operations.
  • Level: A Senior Professional (P3) applies advanced knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education and work experience.

Responsibilities typically include

  • Key activities include:
  • Describing and communicating impact of process changes on business roles understanding and articulating the as-is and to-be states via multiple medias
  • Defining a Change Strategy, agreed with the impacted managers, and delivering on that contract
  • Onboarding Early Adopters and Super Users, usually via a Transition Network
  • Creating the Stakeholder Matrix and Audience Analysis
  • Managing stakeholders and end users in scope for deployment activities
  • Hosting process walk-throughs / workshops with the SME’s, process authors and relevant business users; asking key questions to understand the changes and recording them
  • Conducting Business Change Impact Assessments with relevant stakeholders to inform the training team of the changes and enable the creation of a robust change plan
  • Creating stakeholder communication and engagement plans; supporting the communication of these to relevant end users
  • Develop, create and maintain reporting of the development of global business processes maturity
  • Host engagement events and system showcases
  • Complete and maintain change, communications and readiness plans
  • Creating and maintaining new relationships with identified key stakeholders
  • This role is midlands-based and on-site and travelling is expected between sites.
  • There will be occasional travel to our Liverpool (Halewood) facility.

Skills

  • You’ll need a good understanding of multiple change frameworks with experience of the tools required to execute them
  • Strong presentation skills
  • Experience of in person collaboration and cross functional team working
  • Strong stakeholder management skills
  • Create and align standard timing plans for business change and readiness
  • You’ll need to critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs
  • You’ll need to liaise between the business, technology teams and support teams
  • You’ll need a relevant accreditation or equivalent working experience preferred

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Posted: May 27th, 2026