We need everyone's positive energy and innovative thinking to lead the energy transition to net zero. That's why we welcome applications from all backgrounds and experiences and have a range of flexible working options to suit everyone! We are looking for a Business Readiness Manager to join our Digital Technology team based at Solihull on a 12 month FTC. E.ON I&C is a £7bn business serving ~30,000 customers and 250,000 meter points, with a clear ambition to become the UK's number one B2B energy supplier. As part of Digital Technology & Change (DT&C), this role plays a critical part in ensuring business change is adopted safely, effectively, and sustainably across I&C. This is a specialist role that bridges IT Product Teams, Operational teams, and Portfolio Strategy - helping ensure people, processes and customers are truly ready for change.

Business Readiness Manager

Here's what you'll be doing

You’ll establish and lead a consistent, proportionate approach to business readiness across the DT&C portfolio, including:

  • Defining and implementing a standard Business Change Impact & Readiness Assessment (BCIA) approach
  • Identifying people, process, system, training and comms impacts early
  • Coaching Delivery Leads, Product Owners, Scrum Masters and SMEs to frame change in business terms
  • Coordinating readiness activity across impacted business areas
  • Providing evidence-based readiness insight to influence go-live decisions
  • Creating portfolio-level visibility of readiness risk, change collisions and business capacity
  • Developing dashboards, metrics and reporting to support decision-making
  • Capturing lessons learned and continuously improving readiness and adoption practices
  • Developing supporting processes and artefacts to clarify ownership and standards
  • Ensuring readiness principles adapt to Product / DevOps ways of working
  • Working closely with the Portfolio Manager on forward planning and horizon scanning

What we need from you

Essential experience:

  • 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
  • Delivery experience 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
  • Able to influence without authority and motivate colleagues at all levels

Desirable:

  • 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)

Here’s what you need to know

  • Award-Winning Workplace - We’re proud to be named a Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2025 and the Best Place to Work for 16–34-year-olds.
  • Outstanding Benefits - Enjoy 26 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, a generous pension, life cover, bonus opportunities, and access to 20 flexible benefits with tax/NI savings.
  • Flexible & Family-Friendly - Our industry-leading hybrid and family-friendly policies earned us double recognition at the Personnel Today Awards 2024. We’re open to discussing how flexibility can work for you.
  • Inclusive & Diverse - We’re the only energy company in the Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers. We’re also proud winners of Best Employer for Women and Human Company of the Year—recognising our inclusive, people-first culture.
  • Support at Every Stage of Life - We’re Fertility Friendly and Menopause Friendly accredited, with inclusive support for everyone.
  • Accessible & Supportive - Do you consider yourself as having a disability? As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee interviews for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and will make any adjustments needed during the process.
  • Invested in Your Growth - From inclusive talent networks to top-tier development programmes, we’ll support your growth every step of the way.

 

At a glance

Reference no.: 242719 Closing date: 20/02/2026 Salary: £60,601 - £73,963

Get in touch

For more information please contact clare.lees@eon-uk.com

About us

E.ON is a privately owned international energy company. Our 75,000 colleagues in 15 countries work daily towards the improvement of technical innovations and user-friendly customer solutions for the new energy world. We are the first large energy company to focus more heavily upon the energy of the future through our three business areas of energy networks, renewable energies and customer solutions.

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Location: 

Solihull, GB