Change Management

Adaptive Solutions Group; Ascalon (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

medical

dental

STD/LTD

life insurance coverage

401k

paid vacation

holidays

Job summary

Adaptive Solutions Group seeks a Change Management Consultant to lead large-scale transformations in the St. Louis/Kansas City area. You will develop strategies, coordinate stakeholders, and embed change into project plans while partnering across functions.

The role requires hands-on experience with the change management lifecycle, strong communication, training design, and sponsorship alignment to drive adoption and sustain organizational change.

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of dedicated, hands-on change management experience.
• Owning the full change management lifecycle for large-scale transformation initiatives.
• Experience developing and executing comprehensive change management strategies and plans.
• Experience conducting change impact, stakeholder, readiness, and leadership assessments.
• Experience developing stakeholder engagement and leadership coaching plans.
• Experience creating and executing communication and training strategies.
• Experience developing adoption, reinforcement, and resistance-management approaches.
• Strong understanding of established change management methodologies and principles.
• Ability to independently lead change activities while collaborating with project teams and leaders.
• Strong communication, facilitation, organization, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives and shifting priorities.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute change management strategies and plans aligned with project objectives, timelines, and business needs.
• Provide hands-on change management support for large-scale business transformation and technology implementations.
• Conduct stakeholder analyses, readiness assessments, and change-risk evaluations.
• Translate assessment findings into targeted communication, engagement, training, sponsorship, and resistance-management activities.
• Integrate change management milestones and activities into overall project plans.
• Partner with sponsors and leaders to strengthen sponsorship and organizational readiness.
• Develop stakeholder engagement plans tailored to audiences and influence levels.
• Coach leaders to communicate changes effectively and address employee concerns.
• Develop change communications, messages, talking points, FAQs, and leader toolkits.
• Coordinate with communications, training, PM, HR, technology, and operations teams.
• Develop training strategies and plans supporting successful adoption.
• Track change activities, risks, engagement, readiness, and adoption progress.
• Develop reinforcement strategies to sustain organizational change.
• Apply established methodologies, tools, standards, and templates consistently.
• Coordinate with internal and external partners to advance change management efforts.
• Help develop change management tools, resources, processes, and capabilities.
• Manage multiple priorities independently and adjust focus as needed.

Skills

Change management

Stakeholder analysis

Communication planning

Training strategy

Adoption

Leadership coaching

Project coordination

Risk management

Job description

Adaptive Solutions Group is a premier provider of information technology personnel. We provide a variety of technical professionals available for contract, contract to hire, or direct placement positions to companies in and around the St. Louis and Kansas City areas.

Change Management Consultant to join our team.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute change management strategies and plans aligned with project objectives, timelines, and business needs.
• Provide hands-on change management support for large-scale business transformation, technology implementation, organizational change, and process improvement initiatives.
• Conduct stakeholder analyses, change impact assessments, readiness assessments, and change-risk evaluations.
• Translate assessment findings into targeted communication, engagement, training, sponsorship, and resistance-management activities.
• Integrate change management milestones and activities into overall project plans.
• Partner with project sponsors and business leaders to strengthen sponsorship, leadership alignment, and organizational readiness.
• Develop stakeholder engagement plans tailored to different audiences and levels of influence.
• Coach and prepare leaders and managers to communicate changes effectively, address employee concerns, and reinforce new expectations.
• Develop change communications, key messages, talking points, FAQs, presentations, leader toolkits, and other employee-facing materials.
• Partner with communications, training, project management, human resources, technology, and operational teams to coordinate change activities.
• Develop and execute training strategies and plans supporting successful adoption.
• Track change activities, risks, stakeholder engagement, employee feedback, readiness, and adoption progress.
• Develop adoption and reinforcement strategies to help sustain organizational change.
• Apply established change management methodologies, tools, standards, and templates consistently across initiatives.
• Partner with internal change practitioners and external project partners to coordinate change management efforts.
• Help develop organizational change management tools, resources, processes, and internal capabilities.
• Manage multiple priorities independently and adjust focus based on changing project needs.

Required Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of dedicated, hands-on change management experience.
• Demonstrated experience owning the full change management lifecycle for large-scale transformation initiatives.
• Experience developing and executing comprehensive change management strategies and plans.
• Experience conducting change impact, stakeholder, readiness, and leadership assessments.
• Experience developing stakeholder engagement and leadership coaching plans.
• Experience creating and executing communication and training strategies.
• Experience developing adoption, reinforcement, and resistance-management approaches.
• Strong understanding of established change management methodologies and principles.
• Ability to independently lead change activities while collaborating with project teams, business leaders, and other stakeholders.
• Strong communication, facilitation, organization, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives and shifting priorities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prosci Change Management certification or comparable change management credential.
• Strong knowledge of Prosci and ADKAR methodologies.
• Experience supporting ERP, HRIS, or other enterprise technology implementations, including platforms such as Oracle Cloud Fusion or Workday.
• Experience supporting organizational restructuring, business integration, shared-services, or other enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Experience collaborating with project management, communications, human resources, learning and development, technology, and operational teams.
• Experience partnering with third-party consulting or implementation firms while coordinating internal change management efforts.
• Experience developing change management toolkits, processes, training materials, and organizational change capabilities.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• STD/LTD
• life insurance coverage
• 401k
• paid vacation
• holidays