Job Number: 17660

External Description:

Job title: Senior Change Manager

Location: London; Hybrid / remote depending on candidate location; some travel may be required to regional Paddington office

Contract length: 6 months (+ likely 6 month extension) 

Rate: £644pd PAYE / £855pd Umbrella (Inside IR35) 

Randstad Sourceright, a leading provider of RPO & MSP Recruitment Services is currently recruiting for a Senior Change Manager to work for  the world's largest pet care company. 

The Role:

This is a high-impact contract role requiring a Senior Change Manager to drive behavioral change and system adoption for a global Commercial Digital Transformation.

The core mandate is to lead the entire change strategy (planning, execution, adoption tracking) through influence in a centralized (hub-and-spoke) model, compensating for absent regional leads.

Non-negotiable Experience: 10+ years in Change Management, with proven success in complex, global FMCG environments. Must be a highly autonomous, strategic executor able to challenge leaders and structure complexity

 

Responsibilities:

The Senior Change Manager will own the full change and adoption agenda end-to-end for the global Commercial Digital Transformation Program.

• Strategy & Planning: Lead and execute the global change strategy, ensuring all regions, categories, and business units adopt new digital tools, ways of working, data standards, and operating models.
• Execution & Adoption: Drive the shift from system deployment to real adoption, value realization, and behavioral change at scale, acting as the primary driver of influence and consistency across the organization.
• Stakeholder Management: Execute the strategic hub-and-spoke change model by driving influence, adoption, and consistency across regional, category, and functional stakeholders, compensating for the lack of dedicated regional change leads.
• Change Agenda Ownership: Own the full change lifecycle, including planning, execution, stakeholder alignment, capability building, and adoption tracking & reporting.
• Leadership Challenge: Must be comfortable challenging leaders, guiding decision-making, and driving program momentum within a complex and ambiguous environment.
• Support & Focus: Function as the sole senior change lead, structuring complexity into actionable roadmaps while supporting multiple workstreams simultaneously.
• Communication: Partner closely with the dedicated Communications Manager to ensure consistent and effective messaging is integrated into the broader change strategy.

 

Key Skills and experience required:

 

Core Requirements (Non-negotiable)

• Experience: 10+ years in Change Management, with at least 5 years at a senior/strategic level.
• Industry Expertise: Proven success driving global transformation in complex FMCG environments (Food, Beverage, Consumer Goods, etc.) is an absolute must.
• Transformation Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead and execute a holistic change strategy (covering training, capability, adoption measurement, and governance) across multiple workstreams and diverse cultures.
• Influence & Authority: Proven ability to work independently and deliver impact through influence rather than direct authority, particularly in a centralized (hub-and-spoke) change model.
• Digital Context: The ability to lead a complex Digital Transformation Program and drive the adoption of new processes, data standards, and technology (deep technical knowledge is not required).

Highly Preferred

• Domain Knowledge: Experience in Procurement transformation (e.g., Source-to-Pay, Contracting, Category Management, Supplier Management).
• Senior Partnership: Experience partnering effectively with senior Procurement leaders.

Ways of Working

• Speed & Autonomy: Ability to onboard rapidly, take early ownership (within a maximum of 2 months), and function as a highly autonomous strategic thinker and pragmatic executor.
• Executive Communication: Exceptional executive-level communication, presence, and stakeholder management skills.
• Qualities: Calm under pressure, highly credible with senior leaders and practitioners, and possessing a strong ability to structure ambiguity into clear, actionable plans.

 

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and encourage all qualified candidates to apply. While the hiring process may not be expedited, we urge all interested candidates to submit their applications promptly to ensure their consideration.

 

To apply, please follow the instructions on our application portal. We look forward to receiving your application

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