Business Change Manager

Legal & General is one of Europe’s largest asset managers, providing clients and partners with complex, responsible investment solutions, across public and private markets. As a global investor, we are present where our clients most need us – from Hong Kong and Singapore, to Chicago and major European financial hubs.

Created by combining our investment management (LGIM) and asset origination (LGC) capabilities, our Asset Management division works with our Institutional Retirement and Retail divisions to benefit our clients and customers – which include individual savers, pension scheme members and global institutions – and deliver enhanced shareholder returns.

Joining us means becoming part of a market-leading team, with capabilities across the full spectrum of asset classes, with an enduring commitment to responsible investment and creating long-term, sustainable value for our clients and partners.

Are you ready to be the driving force behind transformational change at L&G Asset Management? As a Business Change Manager, you will play a crucial role in shaping and prioritizing new transformational change ideas and opportunities. This is an exciting opportunity to partner with business area leads, architecture teams, and finance to ensure alignment with strategic goals and drive impactful change. You will be at the forefront of capturing emerging demand, teasing out the details required for business cases, and ensuring we focus on opportunities that offer the most value to our business and clients. If you thrive in a dynamic environment and are passionate about making a tangible impact, we want to hear from you!

What you'll be doing:

• Working closely with stakeholders to understand their needs, communicate change impacts, and manage expectations
• Defining a streamlined intake/pipeline management process that can be flexed to reflect the different size, complexity, and urgency of new demand
• Analysing and designing solutions by working with business stakeholders to understand the nature of their demand/problem/opportunity
• Defining, implementing, and maintaining a prioritization framework to consistently capture key components of all initiatives
• Assisting in the preparation or producing high-level business cases and supporting material for informed investment decisions
• Ensuring opportunities are captured, tracked, and reported from initial idea to eventual handover to execution
• Identifying opportunities for process improvements within the change management framework and implementing best practices
• Establishing KPIs for the pipeline process to monitor and track progress effectively

Who we're looking for:

• Experience in Financial Services, preferably Asset Management (Products & Front Office)
• Strong understanding of Change Management principles & life cycle including Planning, Estimating, Business Analysis/Consulting, Project Delivery and Project Governance
• Experience using structured project prioritisation methodologies 
• Strong experience developing business cases and managing multiple initiatives concurrently
• Exposure to senior business stakeholders and confidence/ability to constructively challenge
• Experience of full project lifecycle with a client journey and product-led focus
• Multiple instances of project delivery (full lifecyle)
• Experience providing consulting support to Business lines to best exploit an opportunity at the outset

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer: 

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes  
• Generous pension contribution  
• Life assurance   
• Private medical insurance (permanent employees only) 
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday 
• Competitive family leave 
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online   
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart 

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. 

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can. 

It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.