Senior Change Leader: Strategy, Adoption & Execution

Burns & McDonnell (old); Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Burns & McDonnell corporate change management professional sought to drive adoption and lead change initiatives. The role centers on developing and executing change strategies that increase ROI, assess readiness, and surface concerns early to minimize disruption.

Partner with project teams to embed change management into planning, coach leaders, and build organizational capability through workshops and standardized practices across the portfolio.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, organizational leadership, or related field.
• 7 years of experience in organizational change management.
• Proven success applying change management principles, methodologies, and tools—with hands-on experience delivering core change activities such as high-level audience impact assessments, detailed audience impact analyses, building sponsorship coalitions and change networks, and developing and executing sustainment plans.
• Certification in Prosci or CCMP preferred.
• Familiarity with project management approaches and experience with large-scale technology and process changes preferred.
• Experience designing, developing, and delivering training, workshops, or capability-building programs to support change adoption preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of structured change management strategies and execution plans to achieve business objectives and ROI.
• Assess organizational impacts and readiness for change and design interventions that foster adoption.
• Identify early indicators of adoption and alignment risk—such as confusion, resistance, or potential workarounds—and partner with sponsors and teams to proactively address them before they impact execution.
• Partner directly with project teams to ensure change management is integrated into overall project planning and execution, actively working alongside the business rather than operating outside the work.
• Drive strong alignment across leaders by bringing clarity to the problem being solved, what success looks like, and helping leaders sustain that shared understanding throughout execution.
• Identify, engage, and support change champions and key stakeholders to build commitment to the change across impacted business audiences.
• Monitor, measure, and report on implementation progress and outcomes, defining leading indicators that show whether people are engaging with and using the change as intended.
• Identify and address resistance to change, develop and implement approaches to overcome challenges, and maintain momentum.
• Develop and maintain visibility into business unit change portfolios to help leaders assess organizational capacity for change, priorities, and impacts.
• Develop and facilitate competency-building workshops for all levels of the organization.

Job description

Burns & McDonnell corporate change management professional sought to drive adoption and lead change initiatives. The role centers on developing and executing change strategies that increase ROI, assess readiness, and surface concerns early to minimize disruption.

Partner with project teams to embed change management into planning, coach leaders, and build organizational capability through workshops and standardized practices across the portfolio.