[Hiring] Change Business Partner @Morgan Advanced Materials

Role Description

The Change Business Partner will lead the people-side implementation of strategic transformation across manufacturing operations. This includes driving the adoption of new systems, processes, and behaviours that enhance efficiency, safety, and growth. A key focus will be supporting the deployment and behavioural integration of standard costing across manufacturing sites, ensuring consistency in cost control, performance tracking, and margin visibility. The role requires a strong understanding of manufacturing, ERP (notably Microsoft D365), and change facilitation to support both people and site-level transitions.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering change management within an industrial or manufacturing environment.
• Understands and leads for the to-be processes and ways of working.
• Understanding and advocating good practices in principle and in detail for a range of topics especially standard costing (cost build-up, cost drivers, variance analysis, cost updates) and margin management, but also MRP, planning, and warehousing.
• Experience supporting or deploying standard costing frameworks within ERP systems (especially Microsoft D365), including training, data validation, and cost centre alignment.
• Ability to engage both finance and non-finance teams in understanding the operational impact of cost changes, cost performance, and product profitability.
• Proven ability to build relationships and influence frontline teams, middle management, and senior leaders.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills, particularly in operational and technical contexts.
• Experience with ERP systems (JD Edwards, Microsoft D365) is a strong advantage.
• Comfortable working at different levels of the organisation.
• Flexible to adapt to the changing business needs of the projects.
• Serves as best practice/quality resource within Standard costing and ERP Transformations.

Requirements

• Aptitude to learn and adapt, seeing change opportunities and encouraging others to seek positive change.
• Change Management or Lean Six Sigma certification (Green Belt or higher) is an advantage.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in finance management or transformation, or multi-site general management roles within manufacturing or industrial sectors.

Company Description

Morgan Advanced Materials is a business rich in history and innovation. Founded in the UK in 1856, we have grown into a global organisation with 70 sites in 18 countries. Our model to serve our customers where they need us has led to a diversified product range using our unparalleled expertise in ceramic and carbon materials, which we exploit to solve difficult problems for our customers across a diverse range of markets.

We are a purpose driven organisation. Our purpose is to use advanced materials to make the world more sustainable and to improve the quality of life. We deliver on that purpose through the products that we make, and the way that we make them.

We help our customers push the limits of their processes and products to meet the demanding requirements they face, from higher process temperatures to higher product performance to increasing miniaturisation.

Key Figures: Revenue £1,114.7m (2023), ~8,500 employees, manufacturing in 20+ countries, and a global customer portfolio. A UK PLC with head office located in Windsor, Berkshire UK. Listed on London Stock Exchange; Member of the FTSE 250 Index.