Culture Manager

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Culture Manager - Inside IR35 - London/Leeds/Birmingham/Bristol

The role holder is responsible for leading the pan-FND culture change programme, which involves evolving the organisation's strategic thinking on creating a brilliant place to work, including enabling our people to be resilient to adopt constant change, creating innovative solutions to improve our working practices, and ensuring our FND culture principles are embedded and upheld across all layers of the organisation. The role requires the delivery of continuous improvement, and the ability to advise, challenge, influence and engage at all levels of FND, from team member to director, through providing thought leadership on strategies and methods to drive engagement, boost morale, increase empowerment, and unlock employee potential.

Key Responsibilities:

* To lead all aspects of analysis that identify programmes/ major change initiatives in support of the FND culture principles and creating a great place to work.

* To deliver key projects/programmes directly linked to culture change.

* To support the Head of Culture Change in embedding the FND culture principles within FND.

* To motivate, enthuse and persuade people to use the FND culture principles in day-to-day decision making.

* To demonstrate the value of creating a brilliant corporate culture by helping people to understand what it is and how it will help them to achieve their goals.

* To create compelling communications which establish cohesive, credible, and compelling storytelling about the culture change journey, end states, and roadmap for all audiences. Track against this story with regular comms, engagements, and reporting based on an annual strategic plan.

* To communicate the culture change methodology in a compelling, inspiring, and interesting way using real case study examples.

* To lead external / internal benchmarking activities in support of improvement initiatives.

* To identify Stakeholder requirements and create a package of best practices and tools/channels/forums for stakeholder engagement and change leadership.

* To work with the internal comms team to update and maintain the internal culture intranet site, creating and procuring useful content to draw people to the site as a "one-stop-shop" for information.

* To develop and maintain an excellent relationship with key internal/ external customers and suppliers as appropriate for ongoing improvement initiatives/activities.

* To lead and manage a Project Team and/ or Consultants.

Business Impact: Culture change evolves over the medium-long term, but business impact can be seen in the short term through trialling new ways of working to create business benefit, and leading learning sessions to evolve current leadership styles and practices.

Authority/Decision Making: Accountable for the delivery of major change/strategic initiatives within the culture change programme. Authority to recommend major change/strategic initiatives which support FND's culture principles.

Qualifications:

* Extensive experience gained at a senior level in a commercial environment with a proven track record.

* Qualified to degree level or equivalent.

* Experienced in the appropriate discipline of: Project Management, Programme Management, Change Management, Stakeholder/Relationship Management, Team Building/Inspirational Leadership, Corporate Communications.

Examples:

* Project Management - APM practitioner, Prince 2 or equivalent level of understanding and application.

* Programme Management - APM consultant, MSP or equivalent level of understanding and application.

* Change Management - Proven change management experience and knowledge of models.

Skills/Experience:

* The ability to test / challenge current thinking and implement new approaches, practices/policies.

* Excellent ability to influence decision makers and operational teams, from director to team member level.

* Excellent understanding and use of analytical tools, techniques and behaviours.

* Excellent ability to lead and direct high performance teams, with good product/ process/ quality/ customer satisfaction knowledge.

* Recognised authority across the organisation in project/programme/change management.

* Strong ability to challenge, influence, negotiate and innovate at a senior level- and rapidly build trust with key stakeholders.

* Highly analytical and structured approach with first class critical thinking.

* Strong understanding of change governance and the ability to deliver change across a large organisation.

* Ability to communicate complex problems / solutions in an articulate manner, using data to support your argument and influence senior management thinking.

* Corporate communications with the ability to generate and execute a multichannel professional communications strategy.

* Sound understanding of the business environment internally and externally, through operational business experience in manufacturing, call centre, field engineering, account management, service/ relationship management or other related disciplines.

* Demonstrable leadership and direction of peer and virtual teams.

* People and programme leadership skills.

* Understanding of the formulation of the measures set that will underpin key programmes/ major change initiatives

Please send in an up-to-date CV

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