Change Manager

Job ID:41685
 

Entry level Change Manager (Developmental role)

Lloyd’s Register

Location: Korea or China or India (local office-based, with global collaboration)

About the Role:

At Lloyd’s Register, we exist to create a safer world. This opportunity offers an internal colleague the chance to play a meaningful role in supporting global transformation by helping colleagues adapt to change, build confidence, and adopt new ways of working across our international business.

This role is for a high-potential individual who may not yet be a qualified Change Manager, but who brings credibility, empathy, energy and a passion for supporting people through change. It also requires the confidence, experience and judgement to lead through ambiguity where no established process exists.

The successful candidate will receive structured training, coaching and development in change management practice, working alongside experienced Change Managers on global initiatives.

What we offer you

• The opportunity to work for an organization that has a clear sense of purpose, is values-driven and helps colleagues to develop professionally and personally through our range of people development programs.

Role Purpose

The Change Manager (Developmental) supports the people side of change for global programmes by:

• Supporting the design and delivery of change strategies and plans that help colleagues understand, engage with and adopt new ways of working across global programmes.
• Building strong relationships with stakeholders to identify impacts, surface risks and readiness issues, and support effective adoption throughout the change journey.
• Contributing insight from the Asia region, including cultural awareness and business context, to help shape global change approaches that are relevant and effective.
• Developing the capability to lead change management activity on global projects over time through structured training, coaching and practical experience as part of the global change community.

The role

Change Delivery

• Work alongside Project Managers and Change Managers to support delivery of people focused change activities across the global organisation.
• Help colleagues understand what is changing, why it matters, and what it means for them.
• Support the delivery of engagement, communication and adoption activities locally as well as internationally.
• Apply training on change management tools and techniques to lead global change activities with guidance and support from Change Managers

People & Stakeholder Engagement

• Build strong, trusting relationships with colleagues and people leaders across LR.
• Act as a visible, approachable and credible presence during periods of change.
• Listen to concerns, provide reassurance, and help surface impacts or risks.

Local Insight & Cultural Awareness (Asia)

• Bring understanding of local culture, language and working practices into global change plans.
• Help tailor messages and approaches so they land effectively with local colleagues as well as global ones.
• Provide feedback to the global change team on how change is being experienced locally, help coach and develop the rest of the team with this experience.

Learning & Development

• Attend change management training, receive coaching and gain expertise via on the job learning.
• Apply new tools and techniques under guidance from experienced practitioners.
• Build confidence and capability as a change professional and achieve globally recognised accreditation in change management (for example Prosci)

What you bring

This role places significant emphasis on personal attributes and potential, alongside clear evidence of leadership capability, professional judgement, adaptability and the ability to operate effectively in complex change environments.

1. Personality & Attitude (Essential)

• High levels of empathy and emotional intelligence.
• A genuine interest in people and how they experience change.
• Confident, positive and enthusiastic, with a calm and reassuring presence.
• Motivated to learn, develop and step into something new.

• Resilient and able to operate effectively in ambiguous situations, including where established processes or precedents do not exist.

2. Knowledge of Lloyd’s Register (Essential)

• Strong understanding of LR, its purpose, values and ways of working.
• Credibility as a trusted colleague who “gets how things really work”.
• Ability to represent LR professionally and authentically.

3. Network & Relationships (Highly Desirable)

• Well‑connected within your local office, function or region.
• Known and trusted by colleagues and people leaders.
• Able to influence through relationships rather than authority.

4. Leadership Capacity & Influence (Essential)

• Demonstrable experience of leading people, providing direction to others, or operating in a leadership capacity, whether through line management, matrix leadership or informal leadership responsibilities.
• Ability to establish credibility and influence stakeholders effectively, including in situations where there is no formal authority.
• Demonstrates the maturity and professional judgement required to operate in a visible role involving engagement with a range of stakeholder groups.

Skills & Experience

• Languages:
• Fluent English (spoken and written) – essential
• Fluent in at least one local language (Mandarin, Korean or relevant Indian language) – essential
• Communication & Presence:
• Strong presentation and facilitation skills.
• Confident speaking to groups and engaging with senior stakeholders.
• Professional presence and positive personal “aura”.
• Change Experience:
• Previous formal change management experience is not required.
• Any exposure to transformation, continuous improvement, training, communications or people initiatives is beneficial.

• • Candidates must be able to articulate the relevance of their previous experience to change management, demonstrating how this experience has developed capability in stakeholder engagement, influencing, communication, adoption support or behavioural change.

• Mindset:

• • Curious, open‑minded and willing to provide constructive challenge, while demonstrating an appropriate balance of structure and flexibility.

• Comfortable supporting others rather than being the “expert”.

• • Able to adapt approach in complex stakeholder environments, applying sound judgement rather than relying solely on process or structure

Development & Support

This role is intentionally designed as a development opportunity:

• External training in change management principles and tools will be provided.
• Ongoing coaching and support from experienced Change Managers.
• Exposure to global programmes and senior stakeholders.
• Opportunity to build a long‑term career pathway in change, transformation or leadership roles within LR.

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About us 

We are a leading international technical professional service provider and a leader in classification, compliance, and consultancy services to the marine and offshore industry, a trusted advisor to our customers helping to design, construct and operate their assets to the highest levels of safety and performance. We are shaping the industry’s future through the development of novel and innovative technology for the next generation of assets, while continuing to deliver solutions for our customers every day.

Be a part of 

Lloyd’s Register is wholly owned by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a politically and financially independent global charity that aims to engineer a safer world through promoting safety and education. For a thriving ocean economy, Lloyd’s Register colleagues and Lloyd’s Register Foundation work together to fund research, foster industry collaboration and develop action-oriented solutions to make the world a safer place. 

Want to apply. 

Here at Lloyd’s Register, we care, we share and we do the right thing in every situation. It’s ingrained in our culture and everything we do. We are committed, and continually strive, to lead with our values that empower and enable an inclusive environment conducive to your growth, development and engagement. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you have experienced, how you identify, how old you are, where you are from, what your beliefs are or how your brain or body works – the diversity of our colleagues is fundamental to our futures and the changes we can make together. Our inclusive culture allows us to connect together authentically and to be courageous and bold. We don’t just talk about our differences, we celebrate them! 

We are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application and we will do everything we possibly can to support you. 

 If you don't tick every box in these ads, please don't rule yourself out. We focus on hiring people who share our goal of working together for a safer, sustainable, thriving ocean economy. 

We care, we share, we do the right thing.

If you have further questions about this role, please contact us at careers@lr.org and we will respond to you as soon as possible.

Diversity and Inclusion at Lloyd's Register:

Together we are one Lloyd’s Register, committed to developing an inclusive and safe workplace that embraces and celebrates diversity. We strive to ensure that all applicants to LR experience equality of opportunity and fair treatment, because we believe it is the right thing to do. We hope you do too.

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• ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible.
• communicating and promoting vacancies offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job.
• anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long-term health condition, enabling them to stay in work.
• at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people.

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