Project Manager - Business Change Management

⚡️💡 About Assystem

At Assystem, our mission is to accelerate the energy transition worldwide. Our 8,000 Switchers blend historical engineering expertise with cutting-edge digital technologies to drive this change. Join us in revolutionizing the energy sector and making a significant global impact.

🤝 Why Join the Community of Switchers?

Be part of one of the top three largest independent nuclear engineering companies globally. At Assystem, you'll contribute to groundbreaking projects that push the boundaries of innovation and engineering excellence. Join a community committed to driving forward the future of energy.

Joining a major nuclear project as a Business Change Manager, this role plays a pivotal part in leading and managing the successful implementation of organisational change across the projects Transformation Portfolio. This individual is responsible for ensuring that projects are assessed for their impact on people, culture and the wider organisation and that their intended adoption-related benefits are fully realised. 

Roles & Responsibilities: 

• Develop and deliver a Business Change Management strategy for the Transformation Portfolio.
• Lead organisational readiness planning, ensuring structured, effective change approaches.
• Conduct impact assessments to analyse business needs, supporting prioritisation, risk mitigation, and solution design.
• Drive stakeholder engagement and adoption, ensuring changes to processes, systems, and structures are clearly communicated, embedded, and sustained.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support training and capability building, enabling adoption of new ways of working.
• Maintain a Business Change heat map to manage change saturation risks and address adoption challenges proactively.
• Track and report people-related benefits and risks, providing assurance and expert guidance on best-practice change.
• Partner with Programme/Project Managers, PMO, and workstream leads to integrate change into governance and delivery.
• Work with the projects Change Agent Network to strengthen relationships and champion change across the organisation.

Essential

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• Extensive experience in Business Change Management/transformation roles within Portfolio, Programme and Project delivery structures.
• Proven experience of delivering Business Change Management in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong leadership with the ability to influence and inspire others to embrace change.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills, enabling successful business outcomes.

Additional information

🌟 Join us at Assystem and be part of a global team delivering some of the most exciting and complex engineering projects in the world. This is your chance to shape the UK’s energy future while developing your expertise in a unique environment.

Benefits include:

🏡 Hybrid Working Opportunity
🕒 Flexible working hours
🛡️ Pension scheme (8% company contribution / 4% personal contribution)
🏖️ 25 days’ paid annual leave + bank holidays + option to buy or sell days
💼 Professional fees reimbursed
💰 Employee referral scheme
🤒 Competitive Sick Pay – Support when you need it
🏥 Income Protection & 3x Salary Death-in-Service Cover
💪 Free Digital Gym Access – Expert-led fitness classes
📞 24/7 Employee Support Line – Mental health, financial & legal help

We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people’s ability to dare are the only things that matter!

Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future

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We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people’s ability to dare are the only things that matter !. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.