Business Readiness Manager

TL;DR

Business Readiness Manager: Establishing and leading a consistent approach to business readiness across the Digital Technology & Change portfolio with an accent on defining impact assessments and coordinating readiness activities. Focus on identifying people, process, system, training, and communication impacts early and providing evidence-based insights to influence go-live decisions.

Location: Hybrid in Solihull, United Kingdom

Salary: £60,601–£73,963

Company

E.ON is a privately owned international energy company focusing on energy networks, renewable energies, and customer solutions for the new energy world, aiming to be the UK's number one B2B energy supplier.

What you will do

• Establish and lead a consistent approach to business readiness across the DT&C portfolio.
• Define and implement a standard Business Change Impact & Readiness Assessment (BCIA) approach.
• Identify people, process, system, training, and communications impacts early.
• Coordinate readiness activity across impacted business areas and provide evidence-based insights for go-live decisions.
• Create portfolio-level visibility of readiness risk, change collisions, and business capacity.
• Capture lessons learned and continuously improve readiness and adoption practices.

Requirements

• Strong background in business readiness, change, or transformation delivery.
• Ability to clearly assess and articulate business and people impacts.
• Experience coordinating readiness, training, and adoption activity within major transformation programmes.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills.
• Experience working in Agile, Product, or DevOps environments or transitioning to them.
• Comfortable operating across multiple initiatives in complex environments and able to influence without authority.

Nice to have

• Experience designing learning or enablement solutions.
• Using data, dashboards, or reporting to support decisions.
• Building or evolving change/readiness capabilities.
• Experience in regulated or large enterprise environments.
• Tooling exposure (e.g., Power BI, Jira, Asana, Excel).

Culture & Benefits

• Award-Winning Workplace, recognized as a Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2025.
• Outstanding benefits including 26 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, a generous pension, life cover, and bonus opportunities.
• Flexible and family-friendly policies, including hybrid work options.
• Inclusive and diverse workplace, recognized as an Inclusive Top 50 UK Employer and winner of Best Employer for Women.
• Support at every stage of life, with Fertility Friendly and Menopause Friendly accreditations.
• Commitment to growth with inclusive talent networks and top-tier development programmes.