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Change Manager

MatchtechWhiteley, Hampshire🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 13 Oct 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid Change Manager role offers a fantastic opportunity to drive impactful strategic initiatives within a reputable defence and security organization, fostering significant career growth through diverse project involvement and skills development. You'll thrive here if you possess strong stakeholder engagement and people-focused change expertise, making it an exciting prospect to contribute to critical national projects. Apply now to leverage your change management skills and contribute to a dynamic, safety-critical environment.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Temporary/Casual
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Whiteley, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Stakeholder Management

Job Description


Our client, a leading organisation within the defence and security sector, is seeking a Change Manager for a contract role supporting a portfolio of strategic change initiatives. The role will focus on delivering well-defined work packages across multiple projects, with a strong emphasis on safety, stakeholder engagement and successful user adoption.


Key Responsibilities:
  • Delivering business change activities across approximately two to three projects and workstreams
  • Preparing change impact assessments, change management plans and stakeholder maps
  • Supporting projects including MVS change activity and airspace initiatives involving airport and air traffic control stakeholders
  • Building strong relationships with stakeholders and bringing people on the change journey
  • Identifying and managing resistance to change, ensuring solutions are adopted effectively
  • Driving delivery forward at pace across defined work packages and high-priority strategic outcomes
  • Working alongside communications specialists to coordinate engagement and support effective messaging
  • Applying people-focused change practices within a safety-critical environment

Job Requirements:
  • Significant experience in business change management or change management delivery
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage people across operational and technical environments
  • Experience conducting change impact assessments and developing practical change management plans
  • Understanding of people-side change, adoption strategies and resistance management
  • Ability to take ownership of established work packages and deliver outcomes at pace
  • Experience supporting change across multiple projects or strategic workstreams
  • Excellent communication, facilitation, organisation and relationship-building skills
  • Prosci experience would be advantageous, alongside an open approach to using established internal change methodologies and tools

Contract Details:
  • Contract duration of approximately six to nine months
  • Hybrid working, with around two days per week onsite and flexibility according to project requirements
  • Opportunity to contribute to important defence and security change programmes
  • Work within an established change practitioner team with existing internal relationships


If you are an experienced Change Manager with a strong record of delivering business change, stakeholder engagement and user adoption in complex environments, apply now to support our client's strategic change portfolio.

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