SENIOR CHANGE MANAGER

Atos; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Atos is seeking an Organizational Change Management Lead (OCM Lead) in the United States to manage a portfolio of client engagements, defining target state visions, and enabling users to adopt changes with minimal disruption. The role emphasizes stakeholder identification, impact analysis, and development of actionable OCM plans and collateral.

You will guide change initiatives, foster adoption, and mentor junior change specialists while aligning risk controls and leveraging agile methodologies

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience.
• Bachelor's degree preferred (candidates with equivalent experience will be considered).
• Consulting, customer-facing experience preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including active listening.
• Outstanding client service, stakeholder management and project management skills.
• Ability to independently manage OCM projects.
• Experience working in an Agile environment preferred.
• Proficient in MS Office apps (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) and/or Google Workspace apps (Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides); AI fluency required.
• Experience with migration of SaaS productivity tools ( Google Workspace/M365) a plus.

Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for OCM project deliverables and deliverable quality.
• Leads information gathering sessions to identify key stakeholders impacted by strategic change initiatives.
• Establishes OCM governance process in collaboration with the customer.
• Manages complex partner relationships and coaches leaders on standard methodologies.
• Creates stakeholder and impact analysis including current and future state, benefits, risks and dependencies of all changes.
• Develops robust change management plans including communication, education and engagement activities that harness multiple channels to address the needs of multiple interested parties.
• Designs and develops collateral to support change management plan deliverables such as communications, presentations, speaking points, working session designs, etc.
• Develops and drives strategies to increase OCM competency across the OCM team.
• Partners with customers to facilitate the execution of training programs.
• Manages development of project deliverables from project start to customer handover and project closure.
• Guides and mentors Change Specialist(s) assigned to their projects, ensuring timely and high-quality deliverables.
• Aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; raises appropriately.
• Mitigates risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls.

Skills

Communication

Project management

Stakeholder management

Client service

Agile experience

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

MS Office

Google Workspace

AI fluency

Gemini & Copilot

Job description

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Atos is the Atos Group brand dedicated to AI-powered, secure, end-to-end digital services. Atos designs, develops, and operates critical digital environments that drive performance, resilience and sovereignty, helping public and private organizations worldwide retain control over their data and infrastructures, while meeting regulatory requirements.

With more than 52,000 employees serving over 4,500 clients across 54 countries, Atos helps modernize core IT systems, accelerate cloud and data transformation, strengthen cybersecurity, and deliver secure digital workplace environments to support its clients, its employees and society. Atos also provides consulting and advisory services through its Atos Amplify brand.
A trusted partner in operating complex and mission-critical environments, Atos supports organizations across highly regulated and sovereign contexts.

Atos Group is a global leader in digital transformation with c. 54,000 employees and annual revenue of c. €7.2 billion, operating in 54 countries under two brands - Atos for services and Eviden for products and systems. European number one in cybersecurity and a leader in cloud, Atos Group is committed to a secure and decarbonized future and provides tailored AI-powered, end-to-end solutions for all industries. Atos Group is listed on Euronext Paris.

The Organizational Change Management Lead (OCM Lead) will manage a portfolio of client engagements, working with the customer to define the target state vision post-change, document the plan to get to the target state, and enable the users to adapt to the change with minimal disruption. At a high level, each OCM engagement might include:

• Identification of the stakeholders impacted by the change initiative
• An assessment of how those impacts will be felt, and by whom
• Development of an OCM plan - education, communication, engagement needs, etc. - that will support the users through the change and facilitate adoption in the target state
• Development of the collateral as defined by the OCM plan
• The OCM Lead plays an indispensable role in developing, driving and implementing the OCM plan.
• As a consultant to the customer and project sponsor, the OCM Lead will leverage their experience to define a change plan that is fit-for-purpose for that customer and that project, because Atos knows that every customer is unique and we value flexibility, adaptability and innovative thinking in our approach to meeting our customer’s needs.
• While customer engagements take precedence, the OCM Lead will also provide support to elevate organizational change management competency throughout Atos.

Role Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for OCM project deliverables and deliverable quality Leads information gathering sessions to identify key stakeholders impacted by strategic change initiatives
• Establishes OCM governance process in collaboration with the customer
• Manages complex partner relationships and coaches leaders on standard methodologies
• Creates stakeholder and impact analysis including current and future state, benefits, risks and dependencies of all changes
• Develops robust change management plans including communication, education and engagement activities that harness multiple channels to address the needs of multiple interested parties
• Designs and develops collateral to support change management plan deliverables such as communications, presentations, speaking points, working session designs, etc.
• Develops and drives strategies to increase OCM competency across the OCM team
• Partners with customers to facilitate the execution of training programs
• Manages development of project deliverables from project start to customer handover and project closure
• Guides and mentors Change Specialist(s) assigned to their projects (if any), ensuring timely and high-quality deliverables
• Aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; raises appropriately
• Mitigates risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred (candidates with equivalent experience will be considered)
• Consulting, customer-facing experience preferred
• Talents Needed For Success Excellent written and verbal communication, including active listening
• Outstanding client service, stakeholder management and project management skills
• Ability to independently manage OCM projects
• Ability to synthesize complex information into key points
• Experience working in an Agile environment preferred
• Proficient in MS Office apps (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) and/or Google Workspace apps (Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides) AI fluency (Gemini and Copilot) required
• Experience with migration of SaaS productivity tools ( Google Workspace/M365) a plus

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