Client Delivery Excellence (CDE) Change & Communications Lead

ERM; Owensboro (KY); On-site; USD 127,500 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

A global consulting firm is seeking a Client Delivery Excellence Change & Communications Lead in Owensboro, KY. The role involves driving strategic change initiatives and ensuring the rapid adoption of organizational changes. With a strong emphasis on stakeholder management and communication, the ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in managing complex change projects. This position offers a competitive salary between $127,500 and $170,000.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience managing global change initiatives.
• Experience influencing stakeholders at all levels.
• Background in a global corporate environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute a change strategy focused on adoption KPIs.
• Lead stakeholder engagement and manage resistance.
• Conduct change impact assessments on new processes.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Change management

Strategic thinking

Communication skills

Risk mitigation

Job description

Client Delivery Excellence (CDE) Change & Communications Lead

The CDE Change & Communications Lead drives organizational change to support the Client Delivery Excellence program aimed at innovating consulting service delivery and leveraging global capabilities and technology advancements. This position ensures rapid adoption of changes with minimal disruption and maximizes the program’s return on investment. This role is part of the CDE Program Leadership team, reporting to the Global Head of CDE.

Client Delivery Excellence (CDE) is our multi-year, multi-functional program focused on innovating the delivery of our consulting services. Our goal is to exceed client expectations in evolving markets while creating exciting new opportunities for our team.

Overview

We anticipate significant changes in a short timeframe, necessitating proactive management of our workforce in a strategic manner. The CC Lead is dedicated to achieving rapid adoption with minimal business disruption, ensuring we realize the intended return on investment (ROI) for our CDE program at the desired scale and pace.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities

• Responsible for designing and executing a change strategy driven by adoption KPIs, conducting impact assessments on processes and technology, managing organizational readiness risks, and delivering comprehensive communication and training programs to enable benefits realization.
• Own and manage the change narrative with consistent messaging, lead senior stakeholder engagement to secure buy-in and manage resistance, advise leadership on change risks and timing, and advocate for integrated project delivery plans including change readiness and reinforcement.
• Own and drive the embedding of effective organizational change through the design and execution of a fit-for-purpose, adoption KPI-driven change strategy.
• Conduct a change impact assessment, focusing on new processes, technology, ways of working, and organizational structures.
• Design and deliver change strategy enabling benefits realization aligned with organizational and employee engagement goals including broad engagement, action-oriented communication for targeted stakeholder groups, comprehensive training programs to support the transition, reporting and governance, reinforcement, and effectiveness measurement enabling course correction.
• Lead senior stakeholder engagement to secure buy-in, manage resistance, and set the program direction.
• Act as a trusted leadership advisor on change risks, timing, sequencing, and people impacts.
• Advocate for integrated project delivery plans that include organizational change readiness, preparing for a successful go-live and sustainably embedding change.
• Collaborate in alignment with parallel transformation streams to enable a user-centric approach for affected stakeholders.

Influence And Decision Making Authority

• Directs activities that significantly impact the achievement of results for the sub-function, focusing on short to mid-term strategies (e.g., 3 years or less).
• May need to negotiate and compromise to influence internal and external parties to accept concepts, practices, and approaches. Requires the ability to communicate with executive leadership regarding matters of strategic importance.
• Responsible for improving processes or systems using significant conceptualizing, reasoning, and interpretation skills. Problems faced are undefined and moderately complex, requiring detailed analysis and investigation.

Job Requirements & Capabilities

Required experience

• Proven record (10+ years) in successfully managing global, multi-year, multi-functional strategic change initiatives, including process harmonization (e.g., post-merger integration, building shared service centres, implementing commercial strategy).
• Influencing and engaging stakeholders at all organizational levels, including the C-suite.
• Working in a global corporate environment with cross-functional teams.

Preferred

• Certification in Change management (PROCI)
• Experience utilizing innovative technologies (AI) in organizational management methodology.

Job specific capabilities/skills

• Strategic thinker and hands-on executor to deliver the end-to-end change management cycle.
• Demonstrating excellence in stakeholder management.
• Communicating effectively at all organizational levels through compelling, contextual, and consistent messaging.
• Possessing a risk mitigation mindset.
• Team player with a proactive approach to identifying and addressing challenges.
• Strong interpersonal skills with a collaborative, pragmatic approach to problem solving.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and manage competing priorities while maintaining progress despite uncertainties.
• Pro-active attitude and passion for driving change.
• Strong organizational skills in digital and global environment.

Location & Compensation

Owensboro, KY • $127,500.00 - $170,000.00

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