Change Management Lead

Take hold of a monster opportunity and join our Transformation team as a Change Management Lead.This is your chance to take the next bold step in your career and contribute to something truly impactful. This role is only open to current Australian Retirement Trust employees, temps and contractors. If that's you, we'd love to hear from you.

About the role

As a Change Management Lead, you will be accountable for leading change management activities within the People & Impact portfolio and its initiatives, ensuring alignment with the 2030 People & Impact Strategy.

This role weaves the people strategy and initiatives into one overarching P&I change strategy, building a compelling and united change narrative - one that inspires action, drives enterprise-wide impact and enhances employee experience, helping bring the 2030 People Strategy to life.

Day to day, you'll:

• Partner with People & Impact Leadership Team, Initiative & Project Sponsors to build change strategy and plans that enable, and support leader led change delivery that optimises business ownership and employee experience.
• Lead discovery and early analysis activities for new initiatives (such as the Enterprise Agreement and Performance and Reward Framework) to facilitate understanding of the customer and business impacts and desired change approach of the initiative.
• Lead and manage change management activities, working alongside other specialist functions, such as Strategic Communications, People & Culture Managers and external consultants.
• Lead a high performing change team through ongoing mentoring, coaching and development of change managers/analysts to deliver quality outcomes.
• Provide expert advice and guidance to support effective decision-making in the program and projects through strong analysis and stakeholder consultation.
• Partner with the appropriate senior stakeholders to contribute to the development and continuous review and improvement of Change Management standards, practices, processes and tools.

This role is available as a 12-month secondment opportunity.

Although the preference is for the ideal candidate to be based in Brisbane, we are open to Sydney and Melbourne.

About you

It goes without saying you'll be a great communicator with top notch interpersonal skills. We'll also expect you to pick up problems and come up with quick, creative ways to solve them. It's quite likely you tick some of the following boxes too:

• Demonstrated experience leading and directing the delivery of People and Culture related change management in large or complex environments.
• Direct people leadership experience with demonstrated ability to coach and develop high performing teams.
• Formal change management qualifications i.e., ADKAR, Prosci etc.
• Demonstrated superior knowledge and application of change management methodologies and best practice.
• Strong relationship management skills, inclusive of an ability to influence and negotiate outcomes of a complex nature.
• Excellent presentation, communication and facilitation skills.
• Strong focus on continuous improvement of Change Management frameworks and ways of working.

Apply online now

Everyone is welcome to apply. We value diverse thinking, cultures, perspectives, backgrounds, and abilities. Awaken your career at Australian Retirement Trust and apply now. Applications close Friday, 1 August 2025.

We don't want to leave you with a monstrous wait. So, you'll hear from us after the closing date to find out whether you've made it through to the next round or not. Being fair and up-front is important to us – and recruitment is no different.

Eligibility

This role is only open to current Australian Retirement Trust employees, temps and contractors. If that's you, we'd love to hear from you.