Senior Change Manager Consultant - 12 Months - Hybrid in Coventry - Inside IR35

Project overview

Senior Change Manager Consultant - 12 Months - Hybrid in Coventry - Inside IR35

Role Overview

A Senior Change Manager Consultant to lead cyber security change across strategic transformation programmes. The role focuses on preparing people, processes, technology, and third-party partners to adopt new security capabilities, with a particular emphasis on Zero Trust Architecture. The successful candidate will coordinate change across business, IT, OT, cyber security, and supplier workstreams to minimise disruption and deliver measurable value from security investments.

Key Responsibilities

Top 5 Skills

• Lead change management activities supporting cyber transformation programmes and Zero Trust Architecture initiatives across enterprise and operational environments.
• Conduct change impact and readiness assessments, and develop stakeholder engagement, communication, and adoption strategies.
• Partner with senior leaders, architects, security teams, and suppliers to establish sponsorship, governance, and change champion networks.
• Design and deliver training, awareness, and capability-building programmes for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Manage business readiness, go-live support, and post-implementation adoption, and measure and report on adoption outcomes, risk reduction, and benefits realisation.
• Cyber security change delivery: Extensive experience delivering organisational change within cyber security, digital transformation, or technology programmes.
• Zero Trust and security domain knowledge: Strong understanding of Zero Trust Architecture, IAM, PAM, cyber resilience, and risk management principles.
• IT and OT environments: Experience operating across IT and Operational Technology, balancing security requirements with operational continuity; water, utilities, energy, or CNI sector experience is desirable.
• Impact assessment and stakeholder management: Proven ability to run impact and readiness assessments and manage change across executives, engineers, suppliers, and regulatory stakeholders.
• Communication and certifications: Excellent facilitation and influencing skills, able to translate complex cyber concepts into business outcomes; Prosci, APMG, or PRINCE2/MSP qualifications are desirable.

Project details

• Rate: £550 per day Inside IR35
• Location: Hybrid in Coventry (3x a week)
• Duration: 12 Months Initial
• Start: ASAP
• Duration: 12 months
• Location: Coventry (3x a week), UK, GB
• Rate: 69-69 EUR/h