Business Change Manager

Location: We welcome a diversity of applications from anywhere across the EMEA region. Reward and Benefits will be locally benchmarked.

Join the Zenith Transformation Programme – Shape the Future with Spirax Sarco

Spirax Sarco has delivered engineering excellence for over 130 years. Now, through our Zenith programme, we’re transforming Steam Thermal Solutions from a product-focused business into a customer-centric, data-driven organisation.

Zenith is a strategic initiative to modernise operations across 78 global companies—streamlining processes, enhancing efficiency, and driving innovation in areas like Supply Chain, Procurement, Finance, and Sales.

We’re Looking For Change-makers Who Thrive On Autonomy, Build Strong Networks, And Want To Make a Real Impact. As Part Of This High-profile Programme, You’ll

• Champion standardised global processes
• Drive operational excellence and measurable results
• Collaborate across diverse teams and geographies
• Help shape the future of our business and your career
  
  

If you're passionate about transformation and ready to challenge the status quo, Zenith offers a unique opportunity to lead meaningful change. Join us and be part of building tomorrow’s business today.

Role Overview

Join our dynamic Business Change team for the Zenith programme, where you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering change management interventions across our Steam Thermal Solutions (STS) business. As a Business Change Manager, reporting to our Business Change Lead, you’ll be instrumental in driving adoption and embedding change, ensuring our transformation initiatives are successful and sustainable.

Your Objectives And Responsibilities Will Focus On…

• Delivering change management for a defined roadmap of transformational change initiatives.
• Applying structured methodologies aligned with the STS IS (Information Systems) Change Framework and third-party approaches.
• Delivering effective communication and engagement to our stakeholders via the agreed communication plans and activities
• Facilitating change management sessions and completing complex change impact assessments aligned to agreed personas and customer journeys
• Developing and implement training in collaboration with our third parties
• Conducting business readiness assessments and support the design of adoption metrics.
• Gathering feedback through surveys and stakeholder engagement to refine change strategies.
• Influencing cross-functional teams without direct authority and manage multiple stakeholders simultaneously.
• Supporting the development of change management capabilities across the operations function and leadership teams.
  
  

Your Previous Experience Is Likely To Include….

• Demonstrable experience in global change management roles within a matrix management environment and in partnership with third parties
• Proven track record of applying change management principles, methodologies, and tools in large-scale projects; including ERP implementations successfully and achieving measurable results
• Experience presenting complex concepts to stakeholders at all organizational levels.
• Change management certification (e.g., PROSCI, APMG) is highly desirable.
  
  

To be successful in this role you will…

• Demonstrate Company Core Values at all times
• Be fluent in English (additional languages are a bonus)
• Possess strong planning and organisational skills, with excellent attention to detail.
• Be a holistic thinker, with the ability to connect the dots and anticipate challenges.
• Be an effective problem-solver and will possess excellent root cause analysis capabilities.
• Be flexible and adaptable in ambiguous or fast-changing environments.
• Demonstrate strong business acumen and an understanding of organisational dynamics.
• Possess excellent influencing skills, with the ability to align diverse stakeholders.
• Be data-savvy with the ability to interpret and report key insights.
  
  

The Steam Thermal Solutions business is one of three businesses within Spirax Group. Spirax Sarco and Gestra, are our two brands that form Steam Thermal Solutions and are global leaders in the supply of engineered solutions for the design, provision and maintenance of efficient industrial and commercial steam systems. Steam Thermal Solutions has global coverage across 67 operating units (called OpCos), organised into four Divisions: EMEA, APAC, Americas, Gestra.

Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.

Benefits

You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days’ paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts’ portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan, detailed below.

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender-neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause-friendly workplace principles and more. Learn more at https://www.spiraxgroup.com/en/life-at-spirax/our-inclusive-group/our-inclusion-commitments .

We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.