Innovation Excellence Change Management Leader

DuPont Group; Wilmington (DE); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

DuPont is seeking a Senior Transformation Leader to drive digital, innovation, and process changes across R&D and enterprise programs. You will partner with senior leaders to design operating models, adoption plans, and governance that accelerate value realization.

Applicants should have a bachelor’s degree in science or engineering and 5+ years leading large-scale transformations, with proven ability to influence without authority and deliver measurable outcomes in a complex, global

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in science, engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of experience leading digital, innovation, or business transformation initiatives.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders and align diverse stakeholder groups.
• Strong understanding of organizational change, transformation, and adoption methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead transformation initiatives across R&D and innovation organizations.
• Drive adoption of digital, data, analytics, AI-enabled, and process capabilities.
• Partner with business, technical, and functional leaders to implement new operating models and governance.
• Influence and align stakeholders across a complex global organization to accelerate readiness.
• Design and execute transformation strategies including engagement, communications, and learning.
• Build and enable change champion networks and leadership communities.
• Establish metrics and feedback mechanisms to measure adoption and impact.
• Identify barriers and develop practical solutions to improve engagement and value.
• Coach leaders and project teams to sustain momentum and capability growth.
• Capture, scale, and institutionalize best practices to improve productivity and performance.

Skills

Change management

Stakeholder management

Strategic planning

Data analytics

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in science or engineering

Job description

Why Join Us | DuPont Careers

At DuPont, our purpose is to empower the world with essential innovations to thrive. We work on things that matter. Whether it’s providing clean water to more than a billion people on the planet, producing materials that are essential in everyday technology devices from smartphones to electric vehicles, or protecting workers around the world. Discover the many reasons the world’s most talented people are choosing to work at DuPont.

What You’ll Do

• Lead transformation initiatives that improve how innovation is planned, executed, and scaled across R&D and innovation organizations.
• Drive adoption of digital, data, analytics, AI-enabled, and process capabilities that enhance innovation effectiveness and business outcomes.
• Partner with business, technical, and functional leaders to implement new operating models, governance approaches, innovation processes, and ways of working.
• Influence and align stakeholders across a complex global organization to accelerate organizational readiness, capability development, and sustainable adoption.
• Design and execute transformation strategies including stakeholder engagement, communications, learning, leadership alignment, and adoption planning.
• Build and enable change champion networks and leadership communities that reinforce new behaviors and sustain momentum.
• Establish metrics and feedback mechanisms to measure adoption, capability maturity, value realization, and transformation impact.
• Identify organizational barriers and develop practical solutions that improve engagement, accelerate implementation, and increase business value.
• Coach leaders and project teams to successfully lead transformation efforts while building lasting organizational capability.
• Capture, scale, and institutionalize best practices that improve innovation productivity and operational excellence across the enterprise.

What We’re Looking For

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in science, engineering, or a related technical discipline, with experience in innovation, R&D, or technology-driven environments.
• 5+ years of experience leading digital, innovation, or business transformation initiatives, with demonstrated success driving enterprise-wide or cross-functional change within large, matrixed organizations.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders and align diverse stakeholder groups without direct authority, leveraging strong communication, facilitation, consulting, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong understanding of organizational change, transformation, and adoption methodologies, with experience developing and executing strategies that drive measurable capability growth, adoption, and business performance improvements.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to use data, metrics, and insights to guide decisions, measure impact, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting R&D, engineering, product development, innovation, or other technology-intensive organizations, with an understanding of how technical work is translated into business value.
• Experience implementing AI, advanced analytics, digital, portfolio management, or knowledge management capabilities to improve innovation effectiveness, productivity, or decision-making.
• Demonstrated success connecting transformation initiatives to measurable business outcomes, including growth, innovation productivity, speed-to-market, operational performance, or capability development.

DuPont is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability or any other protected class.

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DuPont is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability or any other protected class.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to search or apply for a position, please visit our Accessibility Page for Contact Information.