Change Management Lead
Responsible for playing a pivotal role in change management that will drive the success of the company going forward.
Essential Duties
- Shape and execute enterprise-level change strategies that align business and people outcomes. Ensure delivery across large-scale transformation initiatives.
- Partner with senior executives and program leaders to define change vision, goals, and success metrics across high-priority initiatives.
- Develop and deliver comprehensive change roadmaps, integrating engagement, communications, capability-building, and adoption strategies.
- Conduct change assessments to evaluate scope, stakeholder impacts, and areas of risk or resistance.
- Monitor and measure change progress against defined success metrics, leveraging data and feedback to adjust plans and sustain outcomes.
- Maintain portfolio-level view of transformation initiatives to prioritize efforts, manage interdependencies, and optimize impact.
- Connect and integrate change strategies across transformation programs to identify synergies, manage dependencies, and promote a consistent enterprise employee experience.
- Build strong partnerships across enterprise functions, such as Technology, Finance, Legal, HR, LD, People Analytics to ensure aligned execution.
- Lead and mentor change practitioners supporting transformation programs, ensuring consistency of approach and delivery excellence.
- Advise leaders and stakeholders on change implications, enabling informed decision-making and risk management.
- Serve as a visible change leader, modeling adoption, reinforcing behaviors, and helping shape a culture of transformation readiness.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Minimum Education
Bachelors degree/equivalent in business, human resource management, industrial psychology or other related fields.
Minimum Experience
Seven (7) years of experience leading enterprise-level change initiatives, with demonstrated success in transformational change strategy, portfolio execution, and program activation.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Extensive expertise in transformational change strategy and activation at an enterprise level, with knowledge of best practices, benchmarks, and emerging trends.
- Strategic and visionary thinker, with strong problem-solving abilities to address complex organizational challenges.
- Proven ability to lead teams and influence senior stakeholders, driving results through ambiguity, resistance, and large-scale change.
- Ability to collaborate and form strategic partnerships across functions and geographies, balancing enterprise consistency with local needs and cultural differences.
- Experience designing and facilitating learning initiatives, including conducting skills assessments, determining learning pathways and developing educational materials.
- Strong business and data acumen, leveraging insights to inform transformation strategy, execution, and measurement.
- Highly organized, detail oriented, and proactive self-starter with the ability to manage multiple priorities across a large program portfolio.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to influence through clear messaging and effective storytelling.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, with the ability to analyze data and create compelling visualizations.
Core Qualifications
Education: Required: Bachelors degree in Communications, Business Administration, Human Resources, Organizational Psychology, or a related field. Preferred: Masters degree in Organizational Development (OD), Leadership, or MBA.
Experience: Preferred: 8-10+ years of progressive experience leading enterprise change management and large-scale digital/business transformations. Preferred: Minimum 5+ years of hands‑on experience designing and executing strategic communications.
Certifications: Strongly preferred: Prosci Certified Change Practitioner. Valuable alternatives: Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP), PMP, or advanced Organizational Development certifications.
Critical Skills Competencies
- Framework Expertise: Deep knowledge of established change management methodologies (e.g., Prosci ADKAR, Kotter’s 8-Step, or similar frameworks) and how to scale them for complex, matrixed organizations.
- Strategic Narrative: Proven ability to synthesize complex, technical, or strategic concepts (such as AI, IT, or corporate restructuring) into clear, compelling, and empathetic communications tailored to diverse audiences.
- Influence Stakeholder Management: Strong executive presence with a demonstrated ability to advise, coach, and influence senior leadership and executive sponsors without having direct authority.
- Impact Risk Mitigation: Expertise in conducting thorough change impact assessments, analyzing stakeholder readiness, and actively identifying and mitigating areas of employee resistance.
- Data Metrics Oriented: Capability to define, track, and report on adoption KPIs, business readiness metrics, and overall communication efficacy to senior leadership.
Key Behavioral Traits
- Comfort in Ambiguity: staff-level roles often work on initiatives that are not yet fully defined; they must be self‑starters capable of establishing a roadmap from scratch.
- Resilience and Empathy: An understanding of the "human side of change" with the emotional intelligence to navigate organizational friction, listen actively, and advocate for the employee experience.
- Analytical Skills
- Numerical Skills
- Presentation Skills
- Interpersonal Skills
- Judgement Decision Making Skills
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of age, race, color, national origin, genetics, religion, gender, marital status, pregnancy (including childbirth or a related medical condition), physical or mental disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.