Job Title: Change Manager

Location: All UK sites considered with national travel when required. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Referral Bonus: £1,000

Grade: GG12

You’re expected to have completed 12 months in role prior to applying for an advertised vacancy and you should also discuss the internal opportunity with your line manager to ensure sustained business continuity and to further support your career development.

We know there may be exceptional individual circumstances that impact this, in the first instance please discuss this with your line manager.

If you don’t feel you can talk to your line manager, you can contact your HRBP.

PLEASE NOTE: Should you be invited for interview; you acknowledge that the Recruitment team will contact you and your line manager regarding your application for this opportunity.

Job Description:

As a Business Change Manager, you will play a key role in delivering business change and readiness activities across a major Finance transformation programme. Supporting a single business unit deployment, you will be responsible for assessing the impact of change, developing readiness plans and ensuring colleagues are prepared to adopt new processes, systems and ways of working. Working closely with programme and business stakeholders, you will help drive successful adoption, support benefits realisation and contribute to the delivery of a consistent change approach across the wider Ad Astra programme.

Core duties:

Lead and document change impact assessments for a business unit deployment
Identify the impact of changes to processes, systems, data and ways of working
Facilitate change impact workshops and produce clear outputs to support deployment activities
Develop and deliver business change and readiness plans aligned to programme objectives
Create and map user journeys to support adoption of new processes and solutions
Support the development of engagement and communication materials for different stakeholder groups
Work with business teams to identify, track and manage readiness activities and associated risks
Build and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders across the business
Monitor and report on change progress, readiness activities and benefit realisation measures
Collaborate with programme, deployment and business teams to support successful implementation

Essential Skills:

Experience delivering business change and readiness activities within large-scale technology transformation programmes
Experience leading change impact assessments, workshops and impact analysis documentation
Experience developing change plans, user journeys and stakeholder engagement activities
Knowledge of Finance processes, with Financial Planning & Analysis experience desirable
Solid stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively in a matrix environment

The Team:

You will join the Ad Astra programme, a business-led, technology-enabled transformation that is modernising Finance across BAE Systems. The programme is focused on strengthening Financial Planning & Analysis capabilities through improved use of data, streamlined processes and more effective planning and forecasting. As part of the Business Change team, you will play a key role in supporting a major business unit deployment, working closely with Business Change, Delivery and Adoption leads to help colleagues successfully adopt new ways of working. This is an opportunity to contribute to a high-profile transformation programme that will improve decision-making, drive business performance and shape the future of Finance across the organisation.

Why BAE Systems?

Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

A place where everyone can thrive:

We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and have been in their current role for 12 months or longer.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 9th October 2026