Change Management Consultant - Large Programs

andersen; Oak Park Heights (MN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Andersen Corporation is seeking a Change Management Consultant to lead organizational change for strategic programs. You will partner with executives, project teams and communications to identify impacts, drive readiness and adoption, and measure outcomes.

Responsibilities include developing change strategies, readiness criteria, and adoption dashboards while coaching leaders toward accountable sponsorship and sustaining long-term behavioral change across the organization.

Qualifications

• Minimum of eight (8) years of progressive experience in human resources, organization development or change management.
• Certification in Change Management is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, HR, organizational development or related field; equivalent experience acceptable.

Responsibilities

• Lead organizational change management for strategic initiatives.
• Develop readiness criteria, adoption goals and transition requirements.
• Create and monitor change metrics, dashboards and executive reporting.
• Partner with sponsors and leaders to drive stakeholder engagement and adoption.
• Coordinate communications, training and reinforcement strategies for sustainable change.

Skills

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Executive reporting

Data analytics

Facilitation

Education

Change Management Certification

Bachelor's degree in business or related field

Job description

ANDERSEN CORPORATION SUMMARY:

At Andersen, we see possibility everywhere, every day and in everything we do. The possibility for our employees to achieve their full potential, for our communities to be stronger and for everyone to have a healthier, happier place to live.

Our portfolio of brands - Andersen Windows & Doors, Renewal by Andersen and Fenetres MQ - is crafted to serve customers across the new residential, home improvement and light commercial building sector.

Join our more than 13,000 employees who are inspired every day to deliver exceptional experiences that turn possibility into reality.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

POSITION PURPOSE

The Change Management Consultant serves as the organizational change management lead for one or more business-critical transformation programs and strategic initiatives. This role is accountable for developing and executing comprehensive change strategies that ensure business readiness, stakeholder adoption, and achievement of program objectives.

The consultant partners closely with executive sponsors, business leaders, project teams, communications, training, and functional stakeholders to identify change impacts, assess organizational readiness, mitigate adoption risks, and measure realization of expected business outcomes. This role ensures change management activities are integrated into overall program execution and provides ongoing measurement and reporting of change effectiveness, readiness, adoption, and sustainability.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead organizational change management for strategic initiatives.
• Serves as the change management lead for one or more business critical transformation programs, ensuring change strategy aligns with business objectives, program milestones, and expected outcomes
• Drive business readiness and adoption planning.
• Define readiness criteria, adoption goals, and transition/sustain requirements. Assess organizational preparedness throughout the project lifecycle and provide recommendations to leaders regarding implementation and go-live readiness.
• Measure change effectiveness and report outcomes.
• Establish and monitor key change metrics, including readiness, stakeholder engagement, adoption, utilization, and sustainment measures. Develop dashboards and executive reporting that provide actionable insights and recommendations
• Conduct change impact and stakeholder assessments.
• Identify impacted stakeholder/audience groups, assess organizational impacts, evaluate change risks and resistance, and develop mitigation strategies to increase adoption and reduce business disruption.
• Partner with Exec Sponsors and Business leaders.
• Build leadership alignment and sponsor capability through coaching, consultation and engagement strategies that strengthen leader ownership and accountability for successful adoption.
• Develop and execute communication, engagement, and learning/reinforcement strategies.
• Partner with corporate communications and project leaders to create targeted communication and stakeholder engagement plans that build awareness, understanding, commitment and advocacy. Partner with Learning & Development and business leaders to identify learning needs and implement training, reinforcement, and sustainment activities supporting long-term behavioral change.
• Create and maintain change management deliverables and governance.
• Using Andersen tools, frameworks and methodology, develop and maintain key deliverables including change strategies, roadmaps, stakeholder analyses, impact assessments, readiness assessments, adoption scorecards and sustainment plans while ensuring change activities are integrated into overall program governance and execution plans.
• DIRECTION OF OTHERS
• This position will not have any direct reports but will support in the coaching, training and development of others in understanding the change initiatives.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION, SKILL AND/OR COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum of eight (8) years of progressive experience in human resources, organization development or change management; 3 years + leading strategic change management initiatives
• Change Management Certification
• Bachelor's degree in business, human resources, organizational development, related field or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated experience serving as the organizational change management lead for enterprise-wide or business-critical transformation initiatives.
• Experience establishing change success metrics and using data analytics to assess readiness, adoption, and business outcomes.
• Proven ability to influence executive leaders and drive sponsor accountability.
• Experience building and presenting change effectiveness metrics, dashboards, and executive-level progress reports.
• Demonstrated success leading organizational readiness efforts across multiple stakeholder groups and functions.
• Experience integrating change management activities into large-scale program and project plans.
• Strong facilitation skills, including executive workshops, s