Change Manager

Change Manager

Contract: This is a permanent position.

Hours: The role is 40 hours per week. 

Salary: £55,000 per annum

Location: Based on Wash Farm, Buckfastleigh, Devon, TQ11 0JU. The expectation for this position will be to be based working on site for at 3 days a week

What you’ll be doing…

Working in the Business Change team, you’ll be responsible for partnering and coaching the business to ensure that we effectively deliver our project portfolio in the right way. You will work hand in hand with the Programme Manager and Business Analyst, making sure that we land the right things at the right time in the right way. Our roadmap is an exciting one, with a mix of projects and programmes ahead – from supporting our operations to getting fighting fit, to our response to the climate and ecological crises, to inspiring more households to enjoy veg-packed diets. 

The Business Change Team is critical to our future success. We want change and new initiatives to be welcomed in the business. To achieve this, we need to build the capabilities across the business to scope and manage projects efficiently and effectively; our commercial success depends on it. 

You’ll be responsible for working across Riverford to ensure that we land change in the right way within our project roadmap, by:

• Play a key role in the review process for new projects and supporting others in writing project proposals and business cases with a particular focus on ensuring we have clear vision views, clear problem, goals, benefits
• Make high-level recommendations of landing change resource support required and highlighting potential pinch points. 
• Allocate Change resource to a project where needed – being clear if from Change or as part of the regular support from People Business Partners. 
• Build our project and change management capabilities across the business, to include support, coaching, and mentoring of managers to deliver their own business improvement projects.
• Creating a portfolio of effective training and development for managers. Working ​with the Business Change Director, Stakeholders, and the L&D Team to ensure it supports culturally.

What are we looking for:

• Must have a proven background of coaching, training and mentoring others to deliver successful projects and change.
• Second to none facilitation skills, with the ability to coach others to be confident at running their own sessions.
• Variety of project and change management experience – having delivered operational and people projects for a number of years is a must.

Riverford is a beautiful place to work, with lots of great people – and other perks too. Some of our benefits include: 33 days holiday pro rata (including bank holidays), a generous company pension scheme, annual profit share (10% of all our profits are split equally between all co-owners), heavily discounted organic breakfasts and lunches, free organic fruit and veg, time and half on bank holidays, and free parking.