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iconJob ID:
R18824
iconLocation:
London, United Kingdom
iconDate posted:
23 September 2025
iconCategory:
Communications

Change Communications Lead

Ideas | People | Trust

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world.

We work with the companies that are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high‑growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them.

We’ll broaden your horizons

Our Marketing team is the driving force behind the creativity and growth at BDO. Marketing has a broad remit here. Their main goal is to equip the business to win and there are teams covering most touchpoints of the customer journey. Highlights include a national advertising campaign, the launch of a new firm-wide sales planning process and the implementation of new digital marketing tools. Because we know that great ideas can come from anywhere, you can be sure you’ll be heard and have the chance to make a real impact. You'll be supported to build your career, but also to be yourself in the office. Help the firm succeed by staying ahead of the latest market trends, confidently implementing your ideas and collaborating with a range of shareholders. You’ll be rewarded with a great work-life balance and a career with real purpose.

We’ll help you succeed

Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships.

You’ll be someone who is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners to help businesses effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.

As Change Communications Lead you will lead strategic change communications across BDO.

Following the launch of a new business strategy, you’llbe part of the internal communications team and work closely with other teams, including our PMO to create and deliver effective change communications for our top strategic priorities. This will ensure a consistent firmwide approach to how we communicate the change agenda to our people.

You'll be familiar with complex transformation programmes, ideally within similar partnership organisations or in professional services, and comfortable driving complex change management activities.

Based in London you’ll report to the Director of Internal Communications and work closely with Internal Comms Leads and the Business Readiness Lead who sits within the PMO.

Excellent stakeholder and people management skills are essential to support partners, operational teams and Stream IC leads.

  • Build on and deliver the strategic change communications approach for BDO’s transformation agenda aligned to our business strategy
  • Collaborate with the Internal Communications team, Ops PMO and Programme Sponsors, to embed a joined-up change communications approach, ensuring that the change communications strategy consistently supports the business strategy and requirements
  • Define /refresh the key messages and strategic narrative in support of the transformation priorities, to drive consistent and compelling communications across the organisation
  • Enable change through clear, aligned and timely communications and engagement assetsincluding message and briefing packs, intranet pages, newsletters, social posts and Q&A forums
  • Provide measurable results to demonstrate adoption effectiveness and communicate successes 
  • Enable a culture of collaboration and establish behaviours to support business change
  • Promote continuous improvement by integrating communication successes and lessons learned.

Develop change communications for transformation programmes 

  • Develop change narrative and integrate into firmwide communications strategy
  • Create firmwide communications materials– including leadership and employee communications 
  • Ensure messages are understood by the wider organisation 
  • Build networks withleaders to support the transformation agenda and provide strategic counsel
  • Ensure communications leads understand the transformation programmes on the go
  • Support delivery of change communication initiativeswith guidance and best practice 
  • Manage the Change and Communication Network with the Business Readiness Lead
  • Oversee status reporting, risk and issues management
  • Prepare updates for governance forums, engaging with the Director of Internal Communications.
  • Ensure consistency and alignment with other initiatives across BDO
  • Foster best practice and innovative approaches to communications 
  • Liaise with the Corporate Affairs team to plan and deliver external communications for high profile change programmes.

You'll be someone with

  • Experienced and proactive change and communications professional, with proven expertise in leading and delivering complex change programmes
  • Establishedexpertiseemployee communicationsacross multiple channels
  • Proven ability to translate business strategy into engaging communications
  • Ability to influence senior leaders 
  • Project management experience to deliver work on time and to budget
  • Expert in crafting multi-channel communications programmes
  • Educated to degree level or equivalent work experience
  • Knowledge of best-practice communication tools, technologies and approaches, including social media
  • Strong editorial skills.

You’ll be able to be yourself; we’ll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business. We’re committed to agile working, and we offer every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, and the task at hand.

At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

We’re in it together

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO.

We’re looking forward to the future

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy. Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions

We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.

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