Transformation Lead

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Version 1 has celebrated over 28 years in Technology Services and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver solutions that drive customer success. Our expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly changing Digital-First world we live in. We foster strong partnerships with leading technology giants including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, Out Systems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

We’re an award‑winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of Version 1 and what we do.

• UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
• 3,300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
• 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
• Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
• Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW

We're looking for an exceptional Change & Transformation Lead to establish and grow our change and transformation capability. This is a pivotal role that combines hands‑on client delivery with capability building, business development, and practice leadership. You'll be instrumental in shaping how Version 1 delivers change and transformation consulting whilst building a thriving community of practice.

As our Change & Transformation Lead, you'll balance multiple responsibilities: delivering high‑impact change programmes with clients, identifying and shaping new opportunities, providing delivery assurance to consultants across engagements, and building the foundations of our change practice—from knowledge assets to community rituals. You'll work across the full change lifecycle, from understanding current state through to embedding lasting transformation, whilst mentoring others and establishing Version 1 as a trusted partner for organisational change.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a portfolio role—equally comfortable leading complex client transformations, pitching to prospective clients, reviewing delivery quality, and building practice infrastructure. You'll have significant autonomy to shape our change offering and will play a key role in scaling the team as demand grows.

• Extensive proven experience applying established change management methodologies such as ADKAR, PROSCI, Kotter's 8-Step Process, or Lean Change Management
• Assess organisational readiness for change, identify risks and barriers, and design tailored change strategies
• Highly skilled at stakeholder mapping and engagement—identifying change champions, resistors, and influencers across all levels of an organisation
• Design and deliver sophisticated change communications, training plans, and adoption strategies
• Understand how to measure change success through adoption metrics, behaviour change indicators, and cultural assessment
• Significant experience creating change impact assessments and transition plans
• Accomplished at coaching leaders and teams through transformation, building internal change capability

• Strong track record of leading complex change programmes from initiation through to embedding
• Skilled at rapidly assessing and mapping organisations—understanding structures, cultures, processes, and ways of working
• Facilitate discovery sessions to uncover pain points, blockers, and opportunities for transformation
• Facilitate high‑level collaborative workshops that bring together diverse stakeholders to define transformation goals
• Translate strategic ambitions into actionable change initiatives
• Design and implement change interventions—from capability building and process redesign to cultural change initiatives
• Adapt change approaches based on feedback and emerging insights
• Navigate difficult conversations and resistance at senior levels

• Identify change and transformation opportunities within existing client relationships
• Confident presenting to senior stakeholders and C‑suite executives about the value of change management
• Translate client challenges into compelling propositions and statements of work
• Contribute to bids,…