Lead Data Business Change Manager (x2) at Homes England, UK Office/Remote, to the end of January 2027, £Contract Rate

Homes England, the government's housing and regeneration agency, plays a central role in tackling the housing challenges the country now faces. We have the appetite, influence, expertise, and resource to drive positive market change, and our mission is to ensure more homes are built in areas of greatest need, improve affordability and create a sustainable housing market.

The Lead Data Business Change is responsible for leading the delivery and coordination of business change activities that support the successful implementation of data and digital initiatives across Homes England's Integrated Change Programme (ICP).

The role ensures that data and digital change is effectively embedded within business processes, operational ways of working, and decision-making practices. This includes translating programme and delivery outputs into practical, sustainable changes that improve how colleagues access, understand, and use data in their day-to-day roles.

A key accountability of the role is ensuring that change is successfully adopted across business areas. The postholder will coordinate inputs from data business partnering, capability, and communications teams to ensure that change activity is aligned, user-focused, and delivers measurable outcomes.

Working closely with senior stakeholders, programme teams, and delivery partners, the role will ensure that business change is coherent, prioritised, and aligned to both ICP outcomes and wider organisational objectives.

As a Lead Data Business Change Manager, your main responsibilities will be:

• Lead the delivery of business change activities supporting data and digital initiatives within the Integrated Change Programme (ICP).
• Ensure that change activity is aligned to ICP priorities, timelines, and programme outcomes.
• Be accountable for the successful adoption of data and digital change across business areas.
• Ensure that new systems, processes, and ways of working are embedded into day-to-day operations.
• Translate data and digital initiatives into practical changes within business processes and operational workflows.
• Develop and oversee business change plans for data and digital initiatives, ensuring alignment with wider programme delivery.
• Work closely with Heads of Service, senior managers, and operational teams to support readiness for change.
• Act as a key point of contact for business stakeholders during change implementation.
• Work with the Lead Digital and Data Capability to ensure that colleagues have the skills required to adopt new tools and processes.

Essential Skills

• Significant experience leading business change in complex organisational environments.
• Proven ability to translate strategic or programme-level change into practical implementation at an operational level.
• Strong understanding of change management methodologies and approaches.
• Experience engaging and influencing senior stakeholders across a wide range of business areas.
• Good understanding of how data and digital tools support business processes and decision-making.
• Experience working across multidisciplinary teams, including programme, change, capability, and communications functions.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, feedback, and performance information.
• Ability to identify issues and implement practical, effective solutions.

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, Homes England 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.

Armed Forces Covenant

Homes England guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. 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.