Business Change Manager

Drive successful change and adoption across STARK Group’s digital transformation
Would you like to make a difference by assisting the business enabling successful preparation and adoption of new digital transformation initiatives across STARK Group? Then join us in STARK Group’s digital transformation programme and play a key role in ensuring that new digital solutions are successfully adopted across the organisation. As Business Change Manager, you will focus on the human side of transformation - building understanding, engagement, and the ability to change across all levels of the business.

This role goes beyond coordinating change activities - you will actively support the business in preparing for and embedding transformation in daily operations.
 

Your Role as Business Change Manager

Working closely with STARK Group’s business change team and across the projects of STARK Group’s digital transformation programme, you will guide and support local communication and change efforts across STARK Group’s business units to enable a successful digital transformation through onboarding and alignment of leadership, people, and ways of working.

You should expect a dynamic role where your primary responsibilities will include:

• Outlining the business change management approach and organisation in local business units in alignment with the overall STARK Group business change management framework.
• Supporting the onboard of business leadership and people to STARK Group’s digital transformation programme.
• Building the business change and communication plans together with the business.
• Guiding and supporting the business in the use of STARK Group’s business change management standards, tools, templates, and reporting.
• Aligning the needs and approach for training and upskilling across local digital implementation projects.
• Co-creating and continuously enhancing STARK Group’s business change management methods, tools, and governance.
   

At STARK Group, you will become part of a newly established cross-functional team of program readiness and implementation specialists anchored in STARK Group’s business transformation organization. The team’s core objective is to enable successful program implementation by assisting the local business units with optimal program preparation, planning, and mobilization across people, processes, data, and technology.

What We Offer
We offer a central role in one of the Nordic region’s largest digital transformation programmes, where you will directly influence how change is understood, led, and embedded across STARK Group. You will collaborate closely with colleagues in Business Transformation, Group IT, and local business units to ensure successful implementation of new digital solutions.

This is a high-impact role where your ability to create structure, engagement, and alignment will shape how transformation is realised in practice. You will have the opportunity to contribute to building and strengthening business change management as a core discipline across the organisation.

The role is based within STARK Group IT, with the primary workplace being at our headquarters in either Viby J (Aarhus) or Frederiksberg (Copenhagen). Due to the collaborative nature of the role, 1-2 travel days per month will be expected.  

Who We Are Looking For

We are looking for a proactive and experienced change management professional who thrives in complex, international environments. You will contribute to ensure that we live up to our core values – decency, passion, and pride – in our daily work with customers, partners, suppliers, and colleagues. There is strong organisational support for this transformation, and you will help strengthen capabilities and embed business change management as a core discipline.

To thrive in this role, it is important that you:

• Are structured and take ownership in both planning and execution
• Bring a strong foundation in business change management methodologies and focus on practical, implementable solutions rather than theory alone
• Enjoy working at the intersection of people, processes, and technology to create stakeholder buy-in and translate insights into solutions that work in daily operations
• Communicate clearly and confidently, and can engage stakeholders across the organisation
• Are ambitious on behalf of STARK Group, motivated by improving how we work, and you challenge constructively while helping the organisation mature its approach to change management.
   

You are a self-starter with a positive and proactive mindset, comfortable navigating complexity and driving activities independently. With a strong understanding of how change impacts organisations, you ensure that transformation efforts translate into real and lasting business value.

Welcome to Group IT

When joining Group IT, you will be part of a digital transformation journey as we replace legacy monoliths and move towards a more modular and flexible integrated setup. Group IT is a dynamic and rapidly evolving part of STARK Group, responsible for delivering group-wide business-critical IT solutions. We strive to modernise and reimagine our IT landscape to ensure scalability and composability – and we value colleagues who want to help rethink how things are done in our industry.

 
Want to know more and apply?

We will be happy to answer any questions you may have regarding the position and your options in STARK Group. You are welcome to contact Thomas Buchwald, Programme Business Readiness & Implementation, Director, at [email protected] for any specific questions regarding the role.
We aim for a start date of 1 September, and we conduct interviews on an ongoing basis and close the process once we have found the right candidate.
 

STARK Group 

STARK Group is a growing private equity-owned company with a strong legacy. STARK Group was first established in Denmark in 1896 and has today evolved into a leading European retailer and distributor of heavy building materials with net sales of approx. EUR 9 billion. With a dedicated team of more than 20,000 employees and +1,150 branches and distribution centres across the Nordics, Greenland, Germany, Austria and the UK, we live and breathe to serve professional craftsmen with heavy building materials all the way from the Austrian Alps to Tromsø, close to the Arctic circle and everywhere in between. STARK Group is committed to reach net zero emissions by 2050 across the entire business, is a signatory to the UN Global Compact, and works within fully 2030 validated science-based targets to keep global warming below 1.5°C At STARK Group IT, we believe in the richness diversity brings. We invite individuals of all backgrounds to join us in creating and inclusive and welcoming environment. We believe in a workplace where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. 

Agency Policy 

STARK Group IT appreciates the interest of all candidates. However, we prefer to directly engage with individuals seeking employment opportunities. Therefore, we kindly request recruitment agencies, headhunters, and third-party staffing services to refrain from contacting us regarding this job posting. All applications should be submitted directly by the candidates through our official application process. We value direct communication and look forward to reviewing your application.