Leeds, United Kingdom
London, United Kingdom

Job Description

As the Business Change Practice Lead you will be accountable for leading a team of Change Management experts that support delivery across the Bank’s Change Portfolio; pave the way in establishing professional change standards to increase the Bank’s maturity in delivering and adapting to change, and work with teams across the Bank to unlock local issues to help their teams thrive.

You will report directly into the Head of Change Enablement and be responsible for shaping and delivering a thriving and growing team of business change experts, including championing plans to develop the Change Management community of practice which brings together change professionals throughout the Bank, establishing business change as a ‘profession’ within the Bank recognising the skills we bring as critical to optimising change in the Bank, developing a consistent methodology to support transformative change initiatives, optimising operational efficiency, developing a compelling data-driven business case for investment in business change in readiness for FY26/27 budget round and foster a culture of continuous improvement. You will be accountable for ensuring that the team has the necessary capabilities and expertise to deliver.

This is a people management role. You will be responsible for day to day management of the team and for defining roles and responsibilities. You will develop your team through sharing information effectively, coaching and communicating a clear vision to ensure that your staff are productive, engaged and motivated to deliver the area's aims. This will include setting clear goals and smart stretching objectives that are aligned to those of the team, division and directorate. You will also be responsible for managing all staff-related matters that may arise including performance, absence and sickness.

Number of direct reports: 4-8

Primary Outcomes and Accountabilities:

• Lead the work to understand our organisational maturity on delivering and adapting to business change now, agreeing where we want to be in the future, and defining a multiyear plan to move from here to there.
• Drawing on your experience as a business change practitioner, champion the development of the business change community of practice, acting as a critical friend, and ensure that the skills, structures, tools, and support mechanisms required to deliver change initiatives are in place and utilised consistently across the practice.
• Work with the People directorate to establish Business Change as a ‘profession’, considering how to do this in an optimal way, with the ultimate aim of recognising business change as a core skill the Bank needs to optimise change adoption, and to provide a professional hub for all business change professionals at the Bank.
• Ensure all members of the team contribute to building a strong and professional business change centre of excellence. Each team member will also be asked to contribute a proportion of their time to increasing organisational maturity in delivering and adapting to change, and to local project that will make a real difference to colleagues across the Bank by. Examples include contributing to the Community of Practise, designing and delivering the Business Sponsor training, and designing the approach for how business change can supporting the shaping of new strategic projects in the coming years, based on a clear view of the all change happening across the business (in a ‘one Bank’ change impact assessment).
• Direct and assign project tasks to team members and provide ongoing support through coaching and mentoring. Taking the time to understand the talent we have in the team, their development opportunities and where they want to take their careers will be important so that we can seek out ways to provide fulfilling careers with meaningful, challenging work.
• Shape and own the plan to invest in our talent, including a skills analysis, talent mapping, and succession planning. We should have a clear career pathways for business change expertise, with standard job descriptions for each stage and clearly articulated development expectations.
• Provide strategic guidance and leadership to the team and ensure team’s deliverables are completed on schedule, to a high level of quality and to client satisfaction, with a focus on building a brand of ‘consistently excellent’.
• Work with the team to ensure project deliverables on time and to budget.
• Define and oversee the delivering of the business plan for the business change function.
• Manage team’s delivery risks and issues, drive innovation and sharing of best practices within the team. Drive change management integration with other impacted projects or process areas.
• Oversight of the business change finances to ensure we maximise charged work to cover the teams costs, fully utilise training budgets and identify opportunities to fund important work to enhance our teams mission.
• Engage in collaborative and constructive dialogue with client sponsors/ leadership to evaluate progress against project objectives. Develop deep and trusting working relationships with client sponsors/ leadership.
• Design structure of change network and deliver change interventions to drive the desired behaviour change, change adoption and embedment. Conduct change effectiveness survey and design interventions to drive continuous improvement.
• Define metrics and measure business adoption and business benefits realization, to create a compelling business case for investment in business change expertise in outer years. Ensure key messages are communicated accurately and timely using innovative channels, to capture the hearts and minds of stakeholders. Measure effectiveness and drive continuous improvement.
• Develop and complete change management strategies activities on global and regional projects, and carry out activities such as, but not limited to, change impact analysis, communication strategies and drafting communication materials, learning strategies and creating learning materials. It will be important to leverage networks within other organisations and consultancies to continue to borrow and learn from others, to support the Bank as we mature and grow.
• Prepare and deliver presentations to support the engagement and workshops with clients.
• Work effectively with senior stakeholders and project team.
• Work with the wider project team to understand clients’ business requirements through the blending of people, process and technology.
• Working closely with the Change Delivery to deliver appropriate project/programme reports and to ensure that Change Delivery and Change Management activities are in line.
• Working closely with the Portfolio, Planning and Assurance to deliver appropriate MI for the overview of the portfolio.
• Coaching Executive Directors across the bank that sponsor projects and programmes.
• Change Management professional qualified to Practitioner level ie APMG Programme Management or Project Management qualification
• Knowledge of change methodologies and how to apply these to change initiatives.
• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
• Proven ability to develop high performing teams
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
• Ability to create and deliver high-impact communications to senior audiences (written and oral) and facilitate complex discussions.
• Strong influencing and relationship skills. Able to influence without the need for direct authority.
• Experience of working with the business to implement changes and evidence of owning processes/projects and drawing on resources to deliver.
• Demonstrable experience with cross functional business improvement initiatives.
• Strong executive level relationship building skills
• Experience of setting strategy and delivering change in the business.
• Direct experience of delivering change management strategies to large change programmes.
• Experience of managing & working in a change programme in the public sector.
• Experience of working in financial services
• Working in a highly data driven environment
• Working in diverse and agile working environment
• Task managing resources within a project team
• Being able to communicate complex technical information to a non-technical audience
  

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Salary and Benefits Information

We encourage flexible working, part time working and job share arrangements. Part time salary and benefits will be on a pro-rated basis as appropriate.

This role offers a salary of Leeds, £76,240 - £85,770 and London, £84,720 - £95,310. In addition, we also offer a comprehensive benefits package as detailed below:

• Currently a non-contributory, career average pension giving you a guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/80th of your annual salary for every year worked. There is the option to increase your pension (to 1/65th) or decrease (to 1/105th) in exchange for salary through our flexible benefits programme each year. The Bank has the discretion to vary standard accrual rates and dial up and dial down rates at any time and to withdraw dial up and dial down options at any time.
• A discretionary performance award based on a current award pool.
• An 8% benefits allowance with the option to take as salary or purchase a wide range of flexible benefits.
• 26 days’ annual leave with option to buy up to 12 additional days through flexible benefits.
• Private medical insurance and income protection.

National Security Vetting Process

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The Bank of England welcomes applications from all candidates, but as a UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approved sponsor, we have a responsibility to comply with the Immigration Rules and guidance. As such, our ability to employ individuals who require sponsorship for immigration purposes is limited. The Bank cannot guarantee that you and / or the role you are applying for will be eligible for sponsorship and that any application made to UKVI will be successful. Eligibility will therefore be considered on a case by case basis.

The Application Process

Important: Please ensure that you complete the ‘work history’ section and answer ALL the application questions fully.All candidate applications are anonymised to ensure that our hiring managers will not be able to see your personal information, including your CV, when reviewing your application details at the screening stage. It’s therefore really important that you fill out the work history and application form questions, as your answers will form a critical part of the initial selection process.

The assessment process will comprise of two interview stages.

This role closes on 19 August 2025

Please apply online, ensuring that you complete your work history and answer ALL the application questions fully and in detail as your application will not be considered if all mandatory questions are not fully completed.

Job Info

• Job Identification 1352
• Job Category Change, Projects and Programmes
• Posting Date 07/29/2025, 12:51 PM
• Apply Before 08/19/2025, 10:59 PM
• Job Schedule Full time