HR Business Change Manager - HR Manager - People Manager - People Change Manager - HR Change Business Partner

About the role;

The Change Manager is responsible for supporting the business in defining, implementing and communicating organisational change initiatives that will enable the delivery of Asda's corporate plans and responsible for providing the tools to ensure the right approach, preparation and processes are applied to all people impacting activity.

With HR experience gained within a specialist Change role/environment or through a generalist HR route, you will provide advice on the approach to employment change across a number of different projects, lead the TUPE process, liaising with various stakeholders to ensure alignment on our change programmes.

The Ins and Outs;

• Understand all employment change initiatives across Asda, liaising with cross functional teams including the People Centres of Expertise, Business Partners, Operators and Project Managers to build effective tools and processes to deliver colleague impacting change, including redundancy consultation, terms and conditions and TUPE
• Manage the complexity of change approaches and define upskilling, tools and templates required for delivery at local level that deliver change and protect the business from legal and reputational damage
• Support business partners and line leaders in delivering an effective change plan, that captured all necessary stakeholders (including legal, communications, Labour Relations and PR)
• Build successful and sustainable relationships with HR Business Partners and stakeholders within other areas of the business to engage them in managing change in the most appropriate way, and effectively coach and guide the effective use of specific tools and processes
• Provide insight, perspective and recommendations to the Business Partners and line leaders on risks
• Work closely with the Change Manager - PMO and develop a relationship with the corporate PMO team to understand the upcoming business change plan and proactively build plans to support the effective delivery of these plans
• Provide guidance to field teams and project managers on complex cases in relation to change programmes
• Support project managers understand how to deliver change, particularly in signposting which forums they need to attend and supporting the development of materials for the forums
• Where required, attend project and trial working groups to make sure change in approached and implemented correctly
• Work with internal and external legal teams when required to support the management of TUPE processes
• These are the primary responsibilities, however there is a requirement to work closely with the Change Manager - PMO, to be able to share workload within the change remit

What you'll need;

• Knowledge of change management and employment legislation is required
• Working knowledge of TUPE and Redundancy processes and consultation
• Relationship building
• Detail Orientated
• Strong organisation skills and the ability to prioritise and manage multiple projects at one time
• Clear evidence of stakeholder management skills and an ability to influence and engage
• Ability to communicate and influence at all levels within Home Office and stores
• Self-starter with the ability to work as part of a team and independently
• Previous experience working within a Retail environment would be beneficial
• CIPD Qualification beneficial