Director of Change & Adoption

Summit Search Group; Toronto; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Summit Search Group collaborates with a diversified Canadian-owned manufacturing client to appoint a Director of Organizational Change and Adoption. This role leads the people-side of change across multi-year HR modernization, ensuring readiness, adoption, and sustainment of new HR technologies and service delivery models.

The candidate will shape mindset, behaviours, and engagement for a data-enabled, employee-centric HR model; partner with HR, IT, Finance and Ops to bridge tech implementation

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in HR, business, or related field; Master’s degree preferred.
• Change Management certification (e.g., Prosci, ACMP) is required.
• 10+ years in progressive change management and HR transformation; 5+ years leading global programs.

Responsibilities

• Design & execute a comprehensive Change Management strategy aligned with the HR transformation roadmap.
• Engage leaders and stakeholders; develop targeted communications and governance forums.
• Assess organizational readiness and analyze business impact of new HR tech and processes.
• Partner with HR and process owners to translate changes into user journeys, SOPs, and role expectations.
• Lead adoption, monitor KPIs for readiness and system utilization, and drive sustainment post-implementation.

Skills

Change management

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decisions

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

Workday

SAP SuccessFactors

Dayforce

Job description

Summit Search Group collaborates with a diversified Canadian-owned manufacturing client to appoint a Director of Organizational Change and Adoption. This role leads the people-side of change across multi-year HR modernization, ensuring readiness, adoption, and sustainment of new HR technologies and service delivery models.

The candidate will shape mindset, behaviours, and engagement for a data-enabled, employee-centric HR model; partner with HR, IT, Finance and Ops to bridge tech implementation