Sr. Change Management Lead

The Carrera Agency, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 105,000 - 143,000; Full time

Job summary

CARERRA AGENCY seeks an experienced Sr. Change Management lead to provide change management expertise to support GSM transformation initiatives. This role focuses on the people side of change across new processes, operating model changes, and communications to ensure adoption across the organization.

The position blends tactical and strategic work (approximately 70% coordination, 30% strategy), is remote from the United States, and offers an hourly rate starting at $90/hr W2 plus benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience leading change, transformation, or adoption efforts in complex organizations.
• Skilled in stakeholder mapping, impact assessment, readiness planning, communications, and adoption support.
• Strong judgment in identifying risks, dependencies, stakeholder concerns, and reinforcement needs.
• Certified by Prosci, CCMP or APMG; Lean experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead change planning for 10+ GSM initiatives with focus on readiness, adoption, and implementation.
• Stakeholder mapping and engagement: identify audiences and actions to address adoption risks.
• Assess impacts on teams, roles, processes, and expectations; translate findings into support plans.
• Define readiness and adoption support; develop leader messaging, FAQs, and stakeholder materials.
• Establish simple measures and feedback loops to track readiness and sentiment; adjust the approach.

Skills

Change management leadership

Stakeholder mapping

Communications

Adoption strategy

Readiness planning

Prosci certification

CCMP certification

APMG certification

Lean experience

Tools

Prosci certification

CCMP certification

APMG certification

Job description

Change Management, Prosci, CCMP or APMG certified. Lean Certified or Lean experience preferred.

Reference #

Job-11892

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Sr. Change Management lead to provide change management expertise, including practical change communications, to support the successful adoption of Global Strategic Marketing (GSM) transformation initiatives. This role focuses on the people side of change across the work GSM is driving, including new processes, ways of working, and operating model changes tied to marketing transformation. The role includes stakeholder alignment, change planning, readiness, leader enablement, communications, and adoption support to help ensure GSM initiatives are understood, supported, and successfully implemented across the organization.

This role has a blend of tactical and strategic responsibilities with approximately 70% coordination of change management and about 30% strategy for change management activities.

Overview

• Duration: 1 year, with potential extension
• Location: Remote from United States
• Compensation: Hourly Rate starting $90/hr W2 plus benefits

Key Responsibilities

• Change Planning: Build and manage the change approach for 10+ GSM transformation initiatives, with a focus on readiness, adoption, and implementation.
• Stakeholder Mapping & Engagement: Identify key stakeholders, audience groups, and levels of impact across marketing and relevant functions. Develop engagement plans and recommend actions to address adoption risks.
• Impact Assessment: Assess how initiatives affect teams, roles, processes, and expectations, and translate findings into actionable support plans.
• Readiness & Adoption Support: Define what teams and leaders need to be ready for change, including where additional clarity, communication, or support is required.
• Leader Enablement & Communications: Equip leaders with practical tools, messaging, talking points, and materials to reinforce change, answer questions, and support adoption. Develop stakeholder communications, leader updates, FAQs, and other materials that help teams understand what is changing, why it matters, and what action is needed.
• Measurement, Listening & Feedback: Establish simple measures and feedback loops to track readiness, adoption, stakeholder sentiment, and areas of confusion or resistance, using insights to adjust the approach as needed.
• Cross-Initiative Coordination: Maintain awareness of related GSM and business initiatives that may impact the same audiences. Help identify overlaps, dependencies, timing concerns, and stakeholder risks to support a more coordinated change experience.
• Partnership Across GSM: Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure change efforts are aligned to the goals, pace, and realities of the work GSM is driving.

Key Attributes

• Experience leading change, transformation, or adoption efforts in complex organizations.
• Skilled in stakeholder mapping, impact assessment, readiness planning, communications, and adoption support.
• Strong judgment in identifying risks, dependencies, stakeholder concerns, and areas requiring additional clarity or reinforcement.
• Able to support leaders with simple, practical tools that help teams navigate change.
• Comfortable building lightweight processes, measures, and feedback loops.
• Strong collaborator who can connect work across GSM priorities, related business initiatives, and the broader stakeholder experience.
• Certifications: This candidate should be certified by Prosci, CCMP or APMG certified. Lean Certified or have Lean experience is a plus.

Success in this role

The ideal candidate brings change management experience, strong stakeholder judgment, and a practical operating style. They can bring structure to ambiguous work, manage the people side of transformation, and help teams understand, adopt, and sustain new ways of working without overcomplicating the process.