Change Manager

sse.com; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy solutions provider seeks a Business Portfolio Change Manager to join their Cardiff team. In this role, you will drive the Market Wide Half Hourly Settlements programme by managing change activities and ensuring effective process adoption. Ideal candidates will possess strong communication skills, demonstrated experience in business change, and familiarity with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies. This position offers a competitive salary and inclusive benefits like enhanced leave and discounted healthcare.

Benefits

34 days holiday entitlement

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

Discounted healthcare

Salary sacrifice car leasing

Qualifications

• Proven experience working as a Business Change professional.
• Ability to translate complex processes into actionable tasks.
• Skill in using change management tools effectively.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of the Market Wide Half hourly settlements programme.
• Manage change activities and ensure smooth adoption by teams.
• Conduct change impact assessments and engage key stakeholders.

Skills

Communication and engagement skills

Experience in Business Change

Change management principles and methodologies

Digital Enablement and data-driven change

Agile and Waterfall project experience

Job description

Base Location

Reading, Cardiff or Perth

Salary

£54,952 - £64,738 + a range of other benefits to support your family, finances and wellbeing.

Working Pattern

12 month Fixed Term Contract or Secondment | Full Time | Flexible First options available

What is the Role?

As a Business Portfolio Change Manager you will:

• Working within a busy and dynamic team in Business Energy, you will join existing change managers to support the delivery of the industry programme Market Wide Half hourly settlements (MHHS).
• Working across the established programme, you will be working with other change managers delivering across the business and supporting different aspects of the change plan including customer communication, employee communication and engagement, process mapping, migration readiness and lots more.
• Work with Project Managers to ensure the correct change activities and changes are successfully delivered and embedded into the operational teams having a smooth adoption of new processes both for our customers and teams.
• Implement and apply a change management process and correct tools to create a strategy to support adoption of change.
• Conduct business change impact assessments, assess change readiness, identify key stakeholders and ensure all process documentation is up to date.
• Work closely with business SMEs, IT delivery roles in a cross functional set up.
• Ensure that all change activities are aligned to deliver or enable benefits and key performance indicators.

What do I need?

To be considered for this role, we would love you to have:

• Great communication and engagement skills, with the ability to understand and translate complex market and business processes into deliverable activities against a evolving roadmap.
• Demonstratable experience of working as a Business Change professional within a medium to large scale organisation.
• Confident in the use of change management principles, methodologies and tools.
• Experience of Digital Enablement and data driven change – including how AI can be leveraged to accelerate adoption.
• Experience and capability to work at pace in an Agile environment, as well as working within a Waterfall project.

About our Business

Part of SSE plc, the UK and Ireland's largest renewable electricity generator SSE Energy Solutions is different as all its renewable electricity is sourced from SSE's own UK wind and hydro assets.

In addition to providing gas and electricity to businesses across the UK, SSE Energy Solutions invests in, builds and connects localised flexible infrastructure to drive the long-term performance of energy assets. SSE Energy Solutions works with its customers to deliver financially robust plans to bring flexibility and diversity to their energy infrastructure – the low‑carbon solutions they need to succeed in the race to net zero.

What’s in it for you?

An excellent package with 34 days holiday entitlement, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, discounted healthcare, salary sacrifice car leasing and much more, view our full benefits package on our careers site.

As an equal opportunity employer we encourage diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We actively encourage applicants from all protected characteristics and commit to providing any reasonable adjustments required during the application, assessment and upon joining SSE. Search for ‘Inclusion & Diversity at SSE’ to find out more.

Next Steps

All applications should be submitted online, and I'll be back in touch after the vacancy closing date to let you know the outcome.

If you would like to discuss any working differently requirements or adjustments you may require throughout the recruitment and selection process, please contact Zoe on [e-mail]