GBS Head of Change Transitions (FTC) - location flexible

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​Global Business Services​

About the role

Provide enterprise oversight of change and transition activity across GBS, ensuring a consistent, high-quality approach is applied across all programmes, functions and markets. You will bring visibility to transition progress, risks, dependencies, readiness and adoption, helping drive successful outcomes across the GBS portfolio.

There is flexibility on the location for this role.

Your responsibilities

- Maintain an integrated enterprise view of change activity across the GBS portfolio.

- Provide oversight of change readiness, adoption, risks, dependencies and stakeholder impacts across programmes, functions and markets

- Drive sponsor engagement

- Review and assure the quality and consistency of change deliverables produced across transition programmes.

- Monitor portfolio-wide change health and identify emerging themes, risks and intervention requirements. Escalate transition change risks and adoption concerns.

- Consolidate change reporting, insights and recommendations for governance forums and GBS leadership.

- Support onboarding of change resources into GBS methodologies, governance requirements and ways of working.

- Ensure markets are engaged with functional transition outcomes, benefits and narrative and visible senior sponsorship is present and active in each market to deliver results

- Coach market and regional change leads in deployment methodology and ensure existing change, training and communications assets are adopted as far as possible; ensure minimal deviations from GBS standards, to optimise level of change effort in every market

- Ensure post go-live plans are in place for each market to ensure adoption is measured, change efforts are continued as business as usual in market, and benefits are realised

- Manage the work and outputs of external consultancy resources assigned in each geography, as required

The experience we're looking for

- Experience coordinating change, transformation or programme governance; or experience providing oversight, assurance or governance across complex organisational initiatives.

- Strong project management capability with excellent organisational and planning skills.

- Experience developing reports, governance materials, dashboards and executive updates.

- Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify trends, risks, dependencies and organisational impacts.

- Understanding of change management methodologies, frameworks, templates and governance practices.

- Ability to understand the human impact of change and recommend interventions

- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex information into clear and actionable messages.

- Strong emotional intelligence and organisational awareness

- Experience in change management, programme governance, HR, transformation, PMO, business operations or a related discipline

The skills for success

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way.
We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.