Change Lead

The Role As the Local Change Lead, you will be at the forefront of enabling change in your market for the Unify program, a transformational initiative designed to make Imperial Brands more efficient, simplified, and data‑led. This program is a long‑term, high‑impact investment, spanning 15 months to go‑live and 12 months of stabilisation, and its success depends on your ability to guide people, processes, and teams through the change. You will manage the local change plan, drive adoption of new processes and ways of working, coordinate communication, engage local leaders, and support training and readiness activities. Your work will be instrumental in ensuring that markets not only adopt the changes but also realise tangible benefits from them. This is a key role for someone with a passion for people, change, and transformation. You will help unlock the potential of Unify locally, ensuring employees feel ready, informed, and confident as new processes and systems are embedded. Please note that this role is for 18 months starting January 2026 and ending June 2027 Principle Accountabilities Lead and execute the Local Change Management Plan, driving adoption of global processes and solutions. Collaborate with stakeholders to gather feedback, communicate change objectives, and manage expectations. Support local change network and super users, including conducting impact assessments and preparing action plans. Facilitate training scheduling and readiness activities, ensuring alignment with programme plans. Partner with internal communications teams to create engaging local communications and engagement plans. Monitor and report on change progress, assessing effectiveness and recommending improvements. Skills and Experience Required Strong understanding of local business operations and ability to engage with global functions. Excellent communication, collaboration, and presentation skills across diverse audiences. Ability to work creatively and deliver results in ambiguous, complex environments. Experience using tools for planning, reporting, and communication (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, Viva Engage). Cultural awareness and ability to work effectively with multi‑cultural teams. Proactive, flexible, and committed to driving successful change adoption. What We Offer In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers. Everyone Belongs Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview. About Us We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award‑winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all. Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference. As a matter of policy, Imperial Tobacco or its subsidiaries never requests or requires