Change and Transformation Manager

Your role

At Allens, our business teams are also specialists in their field, using their unique knowledge and expertise to solve critical client and business challenges.

You'll be a part of our

People & Development (P&D)

group, working closely with our Head of Culture, Inclusion & People Risk, Organisational Development Manager, and Culture, Inclusion & People Risk team. P&D partners with firm leaders to create the capability, culture and performance required to achieve our strategy, collaborating with the entire business to build an environment where people can excel.

As a Change and Transformation Manager you will:
- Lead on client experience projects and support other significant change initiatives aligned with the firm's strategic goals.- Act as conduit on key change initiatives by connecting program streams, managing and leveraging interdependencies, and enabling action on highest value actions.- Track progress and impact aligned with investment and adjust strategies as needed.- Identify, analyse, and prepare risk mitigation plans, including identifying and managing resistance, to enable adoption of cultural-shift- Collaborate with organisational development team to align transformation efforts with cultural goals and identify new opportunities for impact- Facilitate effective change leadership training across the firm to scale capability and foster a mindset of embracing change.- Effectively lead and engage with senior stakeholders across departments to ensure alignment, foster support and integration of transformation efforts.- Define and communicate leader/change responsibilities to enable collaboration and ensure shared ownership for change

This is a full time, 12-month maximum term contract opportunity. Hybrid working (60% in the office) is how we work however flexibility matters at Allens, so if you are seeking hybrid working or are looking for flexibility in your work, we would be happy to discuss what arrangements would work best for you.

About you

You will have:
- Experience in the design, development and delivery of organisational change and transformation.- Excellent stakeholder management in complex professional services or similar environments across seniority levels.- The ability to balance curiosity with decisiveness for timely execution.- Strategic and tactical thinking, and the ability to work at various levels simultaneously.- Strong influencing skills without direct authority, leveraging firmwide resources.- A commercial mindset with an understanding of client and employee experience connection.- The ability to work at pace while considering long-term objectives.- Designed and developed change management frameworks, toolkits, and resources- Experience implementing organisational development strategies, frameworks and action plans- A desire to learn, grow, network, mentor others

Your development

In joining Allens, you will receive unparalleled learning and development opportunities. You will be challenged, supported and guided as you learn and develop, and will be encouraged to grow. We foster greatness, and will coach and support you to meet your goals and aspirations.

Our unique Career Deal allows you to take control of your career and provides a transparent approach to career development. Our international alliance with Linklaters means we are able to support secondments all over the world.

Our perks

Our benefits include:
- Financial: market competitive fixed remuneration; salary continuance insurance, employee recruitment referral program, discounts at hundreds of suppliers including retail outlets, health and travel insurance, charity matched funding program.- Health and wellbeing: fully subsidised gym memberships, annual flu vaccinations, skin checks, in-house snacks and catered meals, subsidised sporting and social activities, Employee Assistance Program including confidential counselling, wellbeing coaching and financial coaching for employees and their families and regular wellbeing sessions with our in-house consulting Psychologist.- Flexibility: hybrid and flexible working arrangements to support you in your work and life commitments and passions, equipment to support working from home.- Leave: ability to purchase additional annual leave, access to an enhanced, inclusive and flexible- parental leave policy
- 26 weeks paid parental leave with no minimum service for permanent employees and high quality executive coaching to support the transition.- Recognition: team based recognition including social activities and contribution based recognition activities, and annual Allens Values Awards to nominate and recognise the incredible contributions of our people.

Allens is also proud to invest in our communities, giving you the opportunity to make a difference through our work on reconciliation, the environment and other social justice issues as well as our workplace giving and volunteering programs.

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