Director, Change Management

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The Director, Change Management is a leadership role, responsible for playing a pivotal role in leading and driving strategic organizational change initiatives.

This leadership role provides strategic direction and support across business operations functions fostering a collaborative and innovative team culture focused on operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides leadership and guidance to individuals involved in organizational change initiatives.
• Leads strategic transformational change management initiatives.
• Develops a clear vision for organizational change and aligns it with business goals.
• Ensures effective change management is in place for the full lifecycle of transformation and standardization initiatives, from concept through Business-As-Usual (BAU) deployment.
• Collaborates with executive leadership and other senior level stakeholders to gain buy-in and support for change efforts.
• Provides strategic guidance to senior leadership on change management methodology and approach.
• Ensures the development of enterprise-wide change management methodologies and toolkits. Identifies potential risks and develops mitigation strategies.
• Analyzes, plans, implements and evaluates change strategies, facilitating a collaborative approach to change across the organization and building ownership and capability in change leadership.
• Acts as a coach for senior leaders/managers in helping them fulfil the role of "change sponsor".
• Conducts assessments of the current state, analyzes stakeholders, identifies risks, and establishes goals and milestones for changes.
• Plays a key role in ensuring change initiatives meets objectives on time and on budget by increasing employee adoption and usage.

To thrive in this role, you need to have:

• Significant proficiency in methodologies, change management principles, and project lifecycle phases.
• Significant understanding of change management challenges, opportunities, methodologies and frameworks.
• Significant understanding of local and international change management methodologies.
• Ability to influence senior leaders/managers and gain buy-in at executive level.
• Excellent analytical and strategic planning capabilities.
• Significant vast expertise in delivering creative and innovative solutions to business challenges.
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills.

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Business, Management, Communications, or Human Resources or related field.
• Certifications such as PMP, PROSCI, ADKAR, ITIL, LEED, OCM, or CCMP (desirable).

Required experience:

• Significant experience working on large scale change management projects and programs, ideally in a related working environment.
• Deep Experience gained in a similar leadership role.
• Significant experience leading and managing a change management team, delivering high quality results.
• Strong business acumen and ability to communicate with various functional leaders using relevant industry knowledge and terminology.
• Significant experience leading programs that include technology change and adoption.
• Significant experience managing multiple change programs across different regions / geographies with differing needs and stakeholders.

Workplace type:

Hybrid Working

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