Overview

Job Title: Senior Business Change Professional. Location: Preston or Frimley, United Kingdom. Hybrid and flexible working arrangements available – speak to your recruiter about options. Salary: Circa £47,000 dependent on experience.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Support the development and delivery of business change collateral such as business change plans, change impact assessments, communications plans, stakeholder assessments and training plans for the project as part of an IT transformation programme of work.
• Take accountability for business change delivery within small to medium sized projects and change actions or work packages, or support in delivering part of a moderate change programme or business transformation, reporting business benefit realisation.
• Work with key stakeholders to agree core project benefits and the benefits management plan, including KPIs to measure benefits being met.
• Set up and facilitate a cohesive change network and change champion programme as part of a wider change adoption plan.
• From the adoption of new technologies through to supporting the implementation of new systems or ways of working, ensure that business change management is embedded, delivered and assured through appropriate and justified standard approaches across the project.

Essential qualifications

• Business Change experience and knowledge of Change Management theory and methodologies, processes, policies and procedures
• The ability to effectively carry out Business Change Management tasks of small to medium complexity and provide guidance in those areas
• A proven track record of managing change within enterprise-wide IT projects
• Effective influencing and stakeholder management experience
• APMG or other suitable Business Change Qualification such as PROSCI at Practitioner level or equivalent experience

Desirable

• Degree educated

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Business Change Team

You will be joining an experienced change management office of Business Change and Business Analyst professionals, delivering end to end change management support and capability across enterprise technology projects. This is an opportunity to work within a key enterprise-wide technology transformation project. You will work with multiple stakeholders globally and you will help drive and implement new ways of working across a large complex business.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 16th July 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Business Development and Sales

Industries

• Software Development