Senior Change Manager

DigiKey; Thief River Falls (MN); On-site; USD 96,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

DigiKey is a leading distributor of electronic components with a strong benefits package. The Senior Change Manager will guide large-scale change programs, focusing on people, processes, and technology to drive adoption and measurable business value.

Collaborating with executives and project teams, you will design strategies, enable readiness, and monitor outcomes to ensure sustained usage of new ways of working. The role supports both on-site and project-driven hours as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, HR Management, or Organizational Development.
• 6+ years leading cross-functional change initiatives.
• Strong writing/editing skills and knowledge of learning theories.
• Willingness to travel as needed.

Responsibilities

• Apply structured change management methods to design strategies, processes and tools for project adoption.
• Support communications by helping design, develop, deliver and manage messages and materials.
• Assess change impacts, readiness, and stakeholder needs for projects and initiatives.
• Support training by gathering requirements and assisting in design and delivery of programs.
• Create deliverables such as communications plans, sponsor roadmaps, coaching plans, training plans and resistance plans.
• Complete change assessments, track issues, and report progress.
• Identify risks and mitigation tactics; manage resistance and user readiness.
• Coach project leaders and teams; engage senior leaders and coordinate with other specialists.

Skills

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Training support

Coaching leaders

Education

Bachelor's Degree or higher

Job description

DigiKey is one of the fastest growing distributors of electronic components in the world. In addition to offering the broadest selection of in-stock electronic components and providing the best service possible to customers, employees have access to a highly competitive benefits package. To learn more, visit our benefits and perks page.

Position Overview

The Senior Change Manager plays a key role in ensuring change initiatives, including complex, large-scale initiatives, are successful by leading the people side of change. These initiatives include impacts to business processes, systems, technology, roles, and organizational structures. This role has no direct supervisory responsibility but partners closely with project teams, senior leaders, and executive stakeholders to influence engagement, readiness, and sustained adoption across the organization. The Senior Change Manager applies a structured change management methodology to design and lead comprehensive change strategies, plans, and tools that drive alignment, accelerate adoption, and proactively address resistance.

By coaching executive sponsors and senior leaders, enabling managers to effectively lead their teams through change, integrating change activities into enterprise-level project plans, and assessing organizational readiness and risk, the Senior Change Manager ensures timely implementation, sustained usage, and proficiency with new ways of working. This role measures success through realized business value, ROI, and achievement of intended outcomes, ensuring change is embedded and maintained over time.

This role follows DigiKey's hybrid on-site schedule however project involvement and activities may occasionally result in more on site time being required.

Responsibilities

• Apply structured methodology and lead change management activities by creating change management strategies, processes and tools to support adoption of the changes required by a project or initiative.
• Support communication efforts through assisting in the design, development, delivery and management.
• Assess the change impact of the initiatives and projects by conducting impact analyses, assessing change readiness and identifying key stakeholders.
• Support training efforts by providing input, documenting requirements and supporting both the design and delivery of training programs.
• Create actionable deliverables using change management levers as applicable including communications plans, sponsor roadmaps, coaching plans, training plans and resistance management plans.
• Complete change management assessments, track and report issues.
• Identify, analyze and prepare risk mitigation tactics.
• Identify and manage anticipated resistance; evaluate and ensure user readiness.
• Consult and coach project leaders and teams.
• Support and engage senior leaders, coach managers and supervisors, coordinate efforts with other specialists and manage stakeholders.
• Support organizational design and definition of roles and responsibilities.
• Manage the change portfolio, define and measure success metrics and monitor change progress.
• Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Required Knowledge, Skills, And Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Human Resources Management and/or Organizational Development or equivalent experience
• 6 + years of experience leading change initiatives cross-functionally
• Strong understanding of the various functions of DigiKey, how they work together as well as the industry DigiKey operates in
• Knowledge of DigiKey brand and its principles
• Knowledge of learning theories
• Excellent at writing and editing copy
• Taking on additional responsibilities as directed
• Participates in administrative staff meetings and attends other cross-functional meetings
• May travel as needed or requested

Physical Requirements

• Generally, spend the workday sitting at a workstation and operating computer devices, such as, but not limited to keyboard, mouse and screen
• Generally, spend the workday performing repetitive motions that involve or affect the hands, head, and other parts of your body
• Occasional standing for presentations

Compensation

The base pay range for this position is:

$96,000

to

$135,000

Many factors influence the determination of base pay within a range, including the candidate’s work experience in related roles; the candidate’s knowledge, skills, capabilities, and performance; the relative pay of other DigiKey employees in similar roles; and the budget available for the position.

Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future. The employer does not offer immigration sponsorship for this opportunity.

DigiKey Electronics is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage all qualified candidates, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities, and to apply and be considered for open positions.

If you are an applicant with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact Human Resources at 1-800-338-4105 or [e-mail].

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