Position Summary 

The Project Change Manager is the single point of contact within the central project controls functional team for: development and implementation of change management systems; maintaining a contemporaneous view change, and potential change; developing and implementing policy related to change management; and providing insight into root cause, change minimisation, and risk management. The Project Change Manager takes direction from the Head of Project Controls. 

Typical Responsibilities 

Change Management 

• Prepares baselines including establishment and enforcement of overall plans and policy. Ensures reliable change control is in place. Implements trend programmes and ensures compliance. Establishes overall policy for change control including process development and enhancement. Chairs regional and national level change boards. 

Risk Management 

• Identifies and facilitates the identification of risks and opportunities including cross-learning between projects. Maintains a reliable change register. Reports on key risks and opportunity to regional level. Facilitates the transition from risk to issue. Performs quantitative risk analysis. Inputs into the development of the overall risk framework. 

Data Analytics, Insight and Reporting  

• Maintains, analyses and reports on complex data sets. Prepares recommendations based on the analysis including comparisons between projects to generate further insight. Develops data categorisations. Prepares detailed and summary level analysis in multiple formats and delivers such analysis to supervisor. Uses features of recognised professional data management software. 

Work Planning, Scheduling and Sequencing  

• Develops the overall planning, scheduling, and sequencing policy to ensure alignment with the overall change management process and implements this across the enterprise. Ensures that schedule change is reliably captured such that baselines and forecasts are updated correctly. 

Process Definition and Improvement  

• Identifies inefficiencies and potential improvements and makes recommendations on how to remove inefficiencies and implement improvements. Leads on the implementation of improvements to multi-department processes. Utilises statistical and behavioural analysis to identify process failures and ensure data-driven and reliable process improvements. 

Supervision, Guidance and Direction 

• Works as part of an integrated team. Reviews work for alignment with task objectives, content, conclusions, and general presentation. 

Skills and Qualifications 

Required 

• Relevant University degree (or international equivalent) and relevant experience for similar scopes/scales of work, or in lieu of degree additional demonstrated experience 
• Greater than 10 years of related experience in project controls, with a skillset in change management on large, complex projects 
• Full Driver’s License that is valid in the UK 

Preferred 

• Experience in the construction and installation of fibre optic networks