Senior OCM Manager: Change Strategy & Adoption

Ford Motor Company; Cheyenne (WY); On-site; USD 116,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Family care days

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking an Organizational Change Management Manager to lead the people side of enterprise transformation. You will advise leaders, activate sponsor coalitions, and drive readiness, adoption, and sustainment across a broad stakeholder network.

Responsibilities include defining integrated OCM strategies, coordinating with HR, Learning, and Communications, and delivering governance across tools like Jira, Confluence, SharePoint and Power BI.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, organizational development, communications, human resources, psychology, technology, operations, or a related field.
• 5+ years of progressive experience leading OCM for complex enterprise business or technology transformation.
• Demonstrated success advising senior leaders, activating sponsors, enabling people managers, and influencing across a large matrixed organization.

Responsibilities

• Set and execute integrated OCM strategies aligned to business outcomes, program milestones, workforce impacts, and go-live timing.
• Activate sponsor coalitions, clarify leadership accountabilities, coach leaders and people managers, and equip them to communicate, remove barriers, and reinforce new ways of working.
• Lead stakeholder, impact, readiness, and change-saturation assessments across leaders, employees, dealers, suppliers, and partners.
• Govern audience strategies, messaging, channels, leader cascades, feedback loops, change champions, and resistance responses to build commitment and adoption.
• Assess impacts to operating models, roles, processes, policies, systems, skills, behaviors, workload, and capacity; partner on workforce and learning responses.
• Establish and monitor indicators of sponsorship, readiness, proficiency, adoption, resistance, and support demand.
• Integrate OCM milestones into the program plan and escalation for gaps.
• Lead the OCM elements of UAT readiness, go-live preparation, stabilization, and transition to business ownership.
• Lead and develop change professionals and coordinate cross-functional teams, external partners, or change champion networks.
• Set standards for OCM methods, content, reporting, and knowledge management across Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Power BI.

Skills

OCM strategy

Sponsor activation

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership coaching

Adoption analytics

Executive communication

Cross-functional teamwork

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Jira

Confluence

SharePoint

Microsoft 365

Power BI

Job description

Ford Motor Company is seeking an Organizational Change Management Manager to lead the people side of enterprise transformation. You will advise leaders, activate sponsor coalitions, and drive readiness, adoption, and sustainment across a broad stakeholder network.

Responsibilities include defining integrated OCM strategies, coordinating with HR, Learning, and Communications, and delivering governance across tools like Jira, Confluence, SharePoint and Power BI.