Change & Business Improvement Manager at Health and Safety Executive, UK Office/Remote, 6 Month, £Contract Rate

At the Health and Safety Executive, we believe everyone has the right to come home safe and well from their job. Our mission is to prevent work-related death, injury, and ill health. 

We concentrate effort on the most serious risks, targeting industries with the greatest hazards, and sectors with the worst risk management record. We hold people to account where we have to, and we are firm but fair when using our legal powers. We also provide support to businesses through free guidance and advice tailored to business needs. By giving them the confidence to manage risks sensibly, we boost productivity, support the economy, and contribute to a fairer society. We work hard to help maintain an effective regulatory framework, playing our part in providing proportionate and accountable legal requirements. 

The Change and Business Improvement ( "C&BI ") Manager is an influential role within a central practice of transformation professionals who are supporting the organisation with an ambitious roadmap of change that is enabling us to deliver our ten-year strategy. The team plays a key role in the design and delivery of major digital and business transformation initiatives, as well as smaller projects. You will work alongside Digital, Data and Technology professionals and operational and functional subject matter experts from HSE divisions.

As a Business Change and Improvement Manager, your main responsibilities will be:

• Operate at a strategic level, championing the development of common components and a business architecture approach to deliver value across the organisation.
• Be responsible for key business and technology design activity, including operating model design, business process modelling, and service design blueprinting.
• Ensure effective Change Management processes are in place to assess the impact of proposed changes, and to manage the awareness and readiness of individuals affected.
• Collaborate with operational teams, policy colleagues, digital, data and technology practitioners to design improvements to operational processes, new ways of working and new technology solutions.
• Identify pain points in achieving business value, develop designs to address, and work with operational leaders to articulate benefits and establish plans for their realisation.

Essential Skills

• Business architecture and development of common components.
• Implementation of change, including managing impact and readiness.
• Business design and development of operating models (people, process, and technology).
• Business analysis and end-to-end process improvement.
• Benefits modelling and measurement.
• Digital design and delivery, preferably with experience of MS Dynamics.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, Health and Safety Executive guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.