Change Manager
- Location
- Krakow, Poland
- Work type
- On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Salary
- Not listed
- Clearance
- Not required
- U.S. citizenship
- Not stated
- Posted
- Oct 23, 2026
About the role
Job Description
Change Manager
Full time / Hybrid
Cracow, Poland
Why join Rolls-Royce?
At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.
By joining Rolls-Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.
Launched in March 2025, the Kraków R-R Global Capability Centre represents an exciting new chapter in the growth of Rolls-Royce Group Business Services. Designed to support global operations and employee services, the Centre is rapidly evolving into a key hub for enabling operational efficiency and strengthening global business processes. With a fast-growing team, it delivers exceptional services across finance, procurement, HR, Data Analytics and Service Management. This is a place where your expertise can drive real impact - enhancing operational excellence, shaping streamlined global processes and contributing directly to the long-term success of one of the world’s most respected engineering companies. Join us and be part of building something exceptional.
As a Change Manager, you will deliver hands-on change management for the country transition portfolio as part of the country Programme Delivery & PMO capability in Krakow, working into the local VP / centre delivery leadership and under functional guidance from the Level B VP Change. Partner with Project Managers to ensure transition activity is understood, adopted and embedded on the ground. This role suits practical change practitioners with transition delivery experience, strong materials creation, stakeholder engagement and a passion for making change land for impacted team.
The occasional international travel may be required to support the programme.
What you will be doing:
You will deliver change plans, stakeholder mapping, engagement activity, communications, readiness assessments and adoption support for assigned transitions.
- Work day-to-day with Project Managers, local VP / centre delivery leadership, the Level B Change Lead, People Partners, sending organisations, SMEs and GCC teams.
- Translate transition plans into practical change activity that helps impacted teams understand what is changing, what it means for them and how to prepare.
- Create high-quality change materials directly, including messages, briefing packs, FAQs, engagement content, readiness outputs and adoption support.
- Identify stakeholder concerns, change impacts, readiness gaps and adoption risks, escalating issues and driving practical follow-up where needed.
- Support leaders and impacted teams on the ground through clear engagement, communications and readiness planning.
- Track change actions, risks, adoption indicators and feedback, keeping progress visible and follow-up clear.
- Apply programme change templates, standards and messages consistently while adapting to local country and functional realities.
- Contribute lessons learned and practical improvements to the wider GBS Change Community and local change capability
What you will need:
- Experience delivering change activity in complex transition, transformation or business change environments.
- Hands-on delivery of stakeholder engagement, communications, readiness, training and adoption activity.
- Strong written communication and materials creation capability, with attention to clarity, tone and audience needs.
- Practical project delivery mindset: able to work with plans, milestones, risks, dependencies and multiple stakeholders.
- Proactive, value-add style: able to pick up actions, create outputs and keep change activity moving without heavy direction.
- Credibility working with Project Managers, local delivery leadership, HR / People teams, sending organisations and impacted user groups.
- Passion for making change land, with focus on understanding, readiness, adoption and sustained ways of working.
- Comfortable as an individual contributor; no people leadership requirement, but strong personal ownership essential
Desirable:
- GBS, Shared Services, GCC, transition, service management or operating model change experience.
- Experience supporting multi-country change delivery across Poland, India or similar global locations.
- Exposure to mobilisation, stabilisation, adoption or benefits realisation activity.
- Formal change management qualification or methodology exposure, such as Prosci or APMG Change Management.
- Experience supporting people-impacting change or functional transitions across Finance, Procurement, HR, PMO or similar domains.
- Fluent in German will be advantageous
What do we offer:
- Annual bonus based on financial results and employee performance evaluation.
- Employer financed private healthcare at LuxMed for employees. Additional packages can be purchased.
- Group life insurance
- Subsidy for glasses/contact lenses worn for work, up to the amount of PLN 600 gross, every two years
- Subsidy for extra-curricular activities within the cafeteria system on the myBenefit platform/subsidy for Multisport cards, up to the amount of PLN 100 gross per month
- Internet and electricity allowance for remote work, in the amount of PLN 100 gross per month
- Increased funding for the Employee Capital Plans (PPK) program; Rolls-Royce Sp. z o.o. contributes 3% to this program
- Additional vacation days based on length of service
- Hybrid work model (min. 2 days from office)
- Flexible start time between 7:00 AM and 9:00 AM
- Work in a modern office located in the Krakow center – the Unity Tower (ul. Lubomirskiego 20)
Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls‑Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.
Rolls‑Royce is committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.
Please note that all applicants will be subject to Poland right-to- work check as part of the recruitment process
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