Salesforce Change Manager

Newhouse Project Consulting; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Newhouse Project Consulting seeks a Salesforce Change Manager to guide people-centric adoption of a Salesforce implementation, focusing on readiness, communications, and stakeholder engagement. This contract role emphasizes transforming users from “new system” to “new way of working” through practical messaging and targeted training.

You will partner with business and IT teams, assess impacts, plan change activities, and support ongoing adoption across projects with remote or hybrid work options.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting Salesforce implementations or major enterprise technology changes.
• Strong change management, communications, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to work with both technical teams and business users.
• Experience developing change plans, readiness materials, training support, and adoption strategies.
• Utility, field operations, construction, or corporate transformation experience is a plus, not mandatory
• Prosci, ACMP, or other change management certification is a plus, but not required

Responsibilities

• Support change management strategy and execution for a Salesforce implementation
• Partner with business leaders, project teams, and end users to understand impacts and adoption needs
• Develop change impact assessments, stakeholder plans, communications, and readiness materials
• Support training coordination and reinforcement activities
• Help identify resistance, adoption risks, and opportunities to improve user readiness
• Translate technical changes into clear, practical messaging for business users
• Track adoption feedback and help drive continuous improvement

Skills

Salesforce

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Communications

Training coordination

Adoption strategy

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

Newhouse Project Consulting is seeking a Salesforce Change Manager to support a high-impact Salesforce implementation.

This role is ideal for someone who understands that successful technology adoption is not just about the system, it is about the people, processes, communication, readiness, and behavior change required to make the implementation stick.

The Salesforce Change Manager will help lead change management activities tied to Salesforce adoption, including stakeholder engagement, communications, training coordination, readiness planning, impact assessments, and user adoption support.

What You’ll Do

1. Support change management strategy and execution for a Salesforce implementation
2. Partner with business leaders, project teams, and end users to understand impacts and adoption needs
3. Develop change impact assessments, stakeholder plans, communications, and readiness materials
4. Support training coordination and reinforcement activities
5. Help identify resistance, adoption risks, and opportunities to improve user readiness
6. Translate technical changes into clear, practical messaging for business users
7. Track adoption feedback and help drive continuous improvement

What We’re Looking For

1. Experience supporting Salesforce implementations or major enterprise technology changes
2. Strong change management, communications, and stakeholder engagement skills
3. Ability to work with both technical teams and business users
4. Experience developing change plans, readiness materials, training support, and adoption strategies
5. Utility, field operations, construction, or corporate transformation experience is a plus, not mandatory
6. Prosci, ACMP, or other change management certification is a plus, but not required

Ideal Background

This role may be a strong fit for someone who has supported Salesforce, CRM, ERP, field service, construction operations, or utility-related technology implementations and knows how to help teams move from “new system” to “new way of working.”

Location

Remote or hybrid, depending on project needs. Occasional travel or onsite meetings may be required.

Engagement Type

Contract opportunity

About Newhouse Project Consulting

Newhouse Project Consulting partners with organizations to support people-centered transformation, change management, project delivery, implementation success, and AI advisory. We help teams navigate change, adopt new technologies, and turn strategy into practical, sustainable execution.