Core Applications Change Manager

Empowering Yeo: A Smarter Way to Work 

This is a 12 month fixed term contract position.

At Yeo Valley, we’re on an exciting journey to transform how we work. As part of our Empowering Yeo: A Smarter Way to Work programme, we’re upgrading our core systems and moving to use a series of core apps to drive efficiency and innovation, improving the systems landscape across the business as a whole. We’re looking for a dynamic Change Manager to lead the people side of this transformation—ensuring our co-owners are engaged, supported, and ready to embrace new ways of working.

Reporting to the HR Director, you’ll be at the heart of this change, designing and delivering strategies to build trust, confidence, and capability across our business. From stakeholder engagement to training and performance monitoring, you’ll ensure smooth adoption of new systems and processes. You’ll also line-manage the HR Process Manager, collaborating to align SOP development with change timelines.

Essential:

• Experience leading multiple complex change and systems implementation programmes.
• Strong track record of planning and delivering change across diverse user groups and operational environments.
• Exceptional stakeholder management, facilitation and communication skills.
• Experience working with or alongside HRIS, ERP, or planning platforms.
• Able to manage people, priorities, and multiple workstreams with a calm and clear focus.

Desirable:

• Formal change management certification (Prosci, APMG, etc.)
• Experience with iTrent, IFS, or similar enterprise platforms.
• Experience in food production, FMCG, or manufacturing sectors.
• Working knowledge of collaborative platforms (SharePoint, Teams, Yammer, Miro etc.)

We’re independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yogurt.

We’re sure you don’t need convincing, but there’s a whole host of benefits that we offer including:

• 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays 
• non-contributory pension scheme
• life cover
• healthcare cash back plan
• cycle to work scheme
• subsidised Yeo Valley products and services
• preferential rates with our partners
• annual bonus (as part of the Employee Benefit Trust, based on company performance for the year)
• learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow

Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can. So, we recommend you get your application in straight away – and don’t miss the opportunity to join us!

Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time.

Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.