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Posted 01 August, 2026

Change Manager

Tribe Recruitment
Christchurch, CAN, NZ Full Time
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Job Description

Tribe Recruitment Christchurch, South Island About the Opportunity Our Christchurch based client UniMed, is a leading Health Insurance provider investing heavily in a major modernisation programme for the benefit of its members and people. A significant piece of this transformation programme is the migration of Policy Administration Systems (PAS) with related API investments being undertaken. We're seeking an experienced Change Manager to lead the end-to-end change for UniMed, ensuring impacted teams are engaged, ready, trained, and supported so adoption sticks. Reporting to the Program Manager, you'll partner with programme leadership, business SMEs and technology teams to deliver practical, high-quality change outcomes at pace. What You'll Do Assess the change impact across the business. Run impact assessments and translate them into clear, sequenced interventions Develop and deliver the change strategy and integrated change plan across the PAS migration and API-related change impacts Lead stakeholder mapping, engagement and readiness planning across the business. Ensure adoption, business readiness and benefit realisation is successfully achieved Create and deliver comms via appropriate messaging, channels, cadence, and feedback loops. Coordinate training approach and materials. Manage change risks/issues/dependencies and keep the programme informed with crisp reporting. Track adoption/readiness measures and adjust plans to lift engagement and outcomes. What We're Looking For A strong track record delivering change on complex technology programmes. Confident working across business and technology audiences. Excellent communication and facilitation skills and the ability to influence at multiple levels A practical, delivery focused approach, with a high attention to detail Why UniMed and Why Now? This is a foundational program of work and is part of a wider business transformation programme aligned to its three-year strategy Unimed's purpose is to help New Zealanders stay in lifelong good health A clear mandate and senior support through the Program Manager and Head of PMO & Change Management. The role will involve significant engagement across the wider business including People Leaders and the Executive Leadership Team The opportunity to have impact on a NZ business with meaningful ownership across adoption outcomes. To apply for this vacancy, you MUST be a New Zealand citizen, resident, or have already secured the right to work in New Zealand and therefore hold a valid visa. At the appropriate stage we will request your references, we ask that you do not include them on your CV when applying. Tribe is a group of specialist teams, each of who truly understand their world, and together they partner to understand yours. Whether you're looking for your next opportunity or recruiting, we're all about bringing people together for a shared purpose. Find your people. #J-18808-Ljbffr

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