ERP Organizational Change Management Strategist

AV; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401K with company matching

9/80 work schedule

Job summary

AeroVironment, based in California, seeks an Organizational Change Management Lead to steer the people side of transformation across the DBT program, embedding structured OCM into major initiatives.

You will partner with DBT leadership, program teams, and Learning & Development to ensure changes are understood, adopted, reinforced, and sustained, delivering measurable business value.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Organizational Change Management, Organizational Development, Business, Communications, Human Resources, or related field; equivalent experience considered.
• 7+ years of experience leading organizational change, transformation, organizational effectiveness, or large-scale technology and business change initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience supporting both enterprise organizational transformation and complex program implementations.
• Strong knowledge of structured OCM methodologies and practices, including change impact, stakeholder, readiness, resistance, communications, and adoption planning.
• Experience developing and executing integrated change strategies across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to influence executives, leaders, program teams, and employees without direct authority.
• Strong facilitation, executive communication, stakeholder management, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and operate effectively in a fast-moving, matrixed environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a DBT-wide change strategy aligned with the Transformation Office vision, roadmap, and initiative backlog.
• Lead change across people and culture, process, governance, tools, and communications.
• Drive organizational effectiveness initiatives that strengthen engagement, collaboration, accountability, leadership, and capabilities.
• Build leadership alignment, sponsorship, and ownership for transformation priorities.
• Partner with Communications to advance the One DBT narrative and communicate progress and outcomes.
• Establish reusable OCM methods, standards, templates, tools, governance, and a consolidated change calendar.
• Assess stakeholder impacts, readiness, resistance, adoption risks, and translate findings into actionable plans.
• Develop integrated plans for communications, readiness, training coordination, and adoption reinforcement.
• Partner with Program Managers to integrate OCM activities and milestones into program plans.
• Translate change impacts into training and knowledge resources with Learning & Development.
• Define success criteria and establish methods to measure outcomes from initiation through post-launch adoption.
• Support go-live readiness and post-implementation stabilization.

Skills

Change management leadership

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Facilitation

Project coordination

Change impact analysis

Matrix environment adaptability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Organizational Change Management or related field

Equivalent experience considered

Job description

Worker Type

Regular

Job Description

Summary

The Organizational Change Management (OCM) Lead is a key member of the DBT Transformation Office responsible for leading the people side of change at both the strategic organizational and tactical program levels. The role helps work with the CIO leaders to transform the Digital Business Transformation (DBT) organization itself, including its culture, operating model, processes, capabilities, and ways of working, while embedding structured OCM into major DBT programs and initiatives. This individual partners with DBT leadership, program teams, business stakeholders, Learning & Development (LM) to ensure changes are understood, adopted, reinforced, and sustained, and that transformation delivers measurable business value.

Position Responsibilities

• Work with the CIO and DBT leaders to develop and execute a DBT-wide change strategy and framework aligned with the Transformation Office vision, roadmap, and Transformation Initiative Backlog.
• Lead change efforts across people and culture, process excellence, policy and governance, tools and technology, brand and communications, and customer and BRM partnerships.
• Drive organizational effectiveness initiatives that strengthen engagement, collaboration, accountability, leadership effectiveness, workforce capabilities, and continuous improvement.
• Build leadership alignment, sponsorship, and ownership for transformation priorities, preparing leaders and managers to communicate and reinforce change.
• Partner with Communications to advance the One DBT narrative and communicate what is changing, why it matters, progress, wins, and expected behaviors.
• Establish reusable OCM methods, standards, templates, tools, governance, and a consolidated change calendar to embed change management as a sustained DBT capability.
• Assess stakeholder impacts, readiness, resistance, adoption risks, and capacity for assigned programs, and translate findings into actionable OCM and mitigation plans.
• Develop and execute integrated plans for communications, stakeholder engagement, sponsorship, readiness, training coordination, resistance management, reinforcement, and adoption.
• Partner with Program Managers to integrate OCM activities, milestones, dependencies, risks, resources, and success measures into program plans.
• Work with the LM Lead to translate change impacts into training, job aids, knowledge resources, upskilling, and reinforcement strategies.
• Partner with the business to define success criteria—including customer satisfaction—and establish methods to measure, report, and drive intended outcomes from program initiation through post-launch adoption.
• Support go-live readiness and post-implementation stabilization to sustain adoption and transition changes into operations. Capture lessons learned, address adoption gaps, and continuously improve DBT’s OCM methodology and organizational change capability.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills & Experience)

• Bachelor’s degree in Organizational Change Management, Organizational Development, Business, Communications, Human Resources, or a related field; equivalent experience considered.
• 7+ years of experience leading organizational change, transformation, organizational effectiveness, or large-scale technology and business change initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience supporting both enterprise organizational transformation and complex program implementations.
• Strong knowledge of structured OCM methodologies and practices, including change impact, stakeholder, readiness, resistance, communications, and adoption planning.
• Experience developing and executing integrated change strategies across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to influence executives, leaders, program teams, and employees without direct authority.
• Strong facilitation, executive communication, stakeholder management, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and operate effectively in a fast-moving, matrixed environment.

Other Qualifications & Desired Competencies

• Prosci, ADKAR, or comparable change management certification preferred.
• Experience with digital transformation, enterprise systems, process transformation, or technology-enabled change strongly preferred.
• Experience in aerospace, engineering, manufacturing, or another regulated environment preferred.
• Experience establishing enterprise OCM standards, governance, tools, templates, and measurement practices.
• Ability to assess change saturation and advise leaders on sequencing, prioritization, and organizational capacity.
• Experience defining and evaluating readiness, adoption, engagement, proficiency, utilization, resistance, and stakeholder sentiment measures.
• Strong business acumen and ability to connect change activities to operational outcomes and measurable business value.
• High ownership, sound judgment, adaptability, and a collaborative approach to working across technical and business teams.

Physical Demands

• Ability to work in an office environment (Constant)
• Required to sit and stand for long periods; talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard (Frequent)
• Will be required to travel mostly within the Continental U.S.
• Must be within 50 miles of an AV office location

ITAR Requirement:

This position requires access to information that is subject to compliance with the International Traffic Arms Regulations (“ITAR”) and/or the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”). In order to comply with the requirements of the ITAR and/or the EAR, applicants will be asked to provide specific documentation to verify U.S. person status under the ITAR and the EAR. A “U.S. person” according to their definition is a U.S. citizen, U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), or protected individual such as a refugee, or asylee. See 22 CFR § 120.15. Some positions will require current U.S. Citizenship due to contract requirements.

Benefits: AV offers an excellent benefits package including medical, dental vision, 401K with company matching, a 9/80 work schedule and a paid holiday shutdown. For more information about our company benefit offerings please visit: http://www.avinc.com/myavbenefits.

We also encourage you to review our company website at http://www.avinc.com to learn more about us.

Who We Are

Based in California, AeroVironment (AVAV) is a global leader in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and tactical missile systems. Founded in 1971 by celebrated physicist and engineer, Dr. Paul MacCready, we’ve been at the leading edge of technical innovation for more than 45 years. Be a part of the team that developed the world’s most widely used military drones and created the first submarine-launched reconnaissance drone, and has seven innovative vehicles that are part of the Smithsonian Institution’s permanent collection in Washington, DC.

Join us today in developing the next generation of small UAS and tactical missile systems that will deliver more actionable intelligence to our customers so they can proceed with certainty – and succeed.

What We Do

Building on a history of technological innovation, AeroVironment designs, develops, produces, and supports an advanced portfolio of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and tactical missile systems. Agencies of the U.S. Department of Defense and allied military services use the company’s hand-launched UAS to provide situational awareness to tactical operating units through real‑time, airborne reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition.

We are proud to be an EEO/AA Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans. AeroVironment, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and welcomes all qualified applicants. Qualified applicants will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic data,sexual orientation, gender identity or other legally protected status.