Business Change & Operational Readiness Manager

Title: Business Change & Operational Readiness Manager (Payments,
Fin- tech, Challenger Banking)

Location: City of London

Salary: £65,000 - £75,000 Base + benefits

Keywords: Business Change Manager, Change Manager, Change Management Lead, Operational Readiness Manager, Business Readiness Manager, Business Readiness Lead, Business Change Consultant, Change Consultant, Business Change Lead, Payments, Fin-tech, Challenger Banking

Exciting opportunity for an experienced Business Change Manager with in-depth experience of technology platform transformations, to work for a global leading payments provider based in Central London.

This is a great time to join a state of the art technology platform building transformation at a very early phase in their 5 year roadmap.

You will be planning, coordinating and managing the day to day activities across multiple workstreams including but not limited to, Operational Readiness teams, BAU, risk, sales, testing, development, training teams, customer teams and product. In addition to this you will take a lead role in change impact assessment for the business processes, as well as engage and advise challenging senior stakeholders in multiple geographies.

You would be required to move from broad strategic vision to highly tactical execution at a moment's notice.

Experience/Skills Required:

• Must have 7-10 years hands on change management experience
• Change management experience on a platform transformation involving movement of legacy systems or equivalent is an advantage
• Must be able to give credible examples of leading change and business readiness for large, or multiple complex technology led programmes .
• Must have change management / business readiness experience within a Payments, Fin-Tech, Challenger Banking or Financial Services organisation
• Must have have a good technical understanding, and be well versed in agile & waterfall
• Must have good communication, organisation and reporting skills with a strong attention to detail
• Must have hands on experience of implementing and further development of change management processes from both a consumer and business perspective.
• Must have experience of working with senior level stakeholders (Director / C-suite / Heads Of level)
• Must have a proven track record of working with distributed teams across multiple geographical locations
• Must have experience of working in a fast paced environment, be passionate, have a positive / self starter attitude, with clear articulation of ideas, preference for action, and a strong work ethic.
• Must be a team player with strong collaboration skills and a demonstrated ability to lead effectively across functions.

They also offer a defined career progression path which will can ultimately lead to a Head Of Business Readiness position in the next 12-18 months, as this domain and the company grows rapidly.

If this sounds like you, or you know someone who may be suitable please get in touch on or 0207 953 0037

About NP Group

NP Group is an award winning international recruitment organisation focused on solving the challenges both clients and candidates face, in a different way. Specialising in technology, NP Group partner with some of the most recognised, innovative and inspiring business across the globe. NP Group's Strategic Workforce Resourcing, Talent Solutions and Executive Search business units use specialist knowledge to genuinely solve clients and candidates' recruitment problems. NP Group have been recognised by Best Companies as 'one to watch' and are in the Recruiter Fast 50 as one of the fastest growing UK recruitment companies.

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