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Change Management Lead
Hybrid | 3 days in office
Shapes, plans, and leads enterprise-level change management across multiple workstreams, agile teams, and projects within a complex program of work. Serves as a change management subject-matter expert, embedding methodology (Prosci preferred) into products and delivery while coaching both practitioners and non-practitioners.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead change management strategy and execution across multiple workstreams, agile teams, and projects within a large-scale program.
- Apply expert knowledge of change management methodologies (Prosci preferred), embedding best practices into delivery and product lifecycles.
- Develop and manage program-level change plans, including stakeholder analysis, impact assessments, engagement strategies, and resistance management plans.
- Articulate clear change outcomes and manage multi-stream metrics to demonstrate measurable progress and adoption.
- Translate complex concepts into clear, concise messaging for non-technical and non-expert audiences.
- Identify and manage change impacts across all in-scope audiences; lead mitigation strategies to address risks and resistance.
- Partner closely with senior leaders and executives (VP level and above) to ensure alignment, sponsorship, and sustained engagement.
- Design and deliver leadership alignment sessions and executive-level change activities.
- Plan and facilitate stakeholder engagement activities, tailoring approaches for diverse audience groups.
- Integrate change management efforts with broader transformation initiatives and enterprise programs.
- Coach and mentor senior leaders, peers, and junior change practitioners.
- Proactively identify risks and issues, developing mitigation plans to ensure successful outcomes.
- Lead effectively through ambiguity, enabling teams to deliver results in evolving environments.
Key Skills & Experience
- Enterprise Change Management
- Prosci Methodology (preferred)
- Executive & Senior Leader Engagement
- Stakeholder & Impact Analysis
- Agile & Multi-Workstream Programs
- Leadership Alignment & Coaching
- Metrics, Adoption & Outcomes Measurement
- Communication & Storytelling
- Risk & Resistance Management