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ManpowerGroup Organizational Change Management in Waukegan, Illinois
Experis IT ManpowerGroup has partnered with a leading medical device organization in the remote for a contract with a possible extension of the OCM role to assist their team. Prefer local to the Chicago area; remote is acceptable but needs to be available for key in-person meetings.
Industry: Medical Device
Title: OCM Organizational Change Management
Location: Remote
Duration: 12 months (Contract with possible extension)
Pay range: $80-$82 per hour.
Job Description
The organizational change management (OCM) lead will play a key role in ensuring all change initiatives associated with IT projects meet objectives by increasing adoption and usage.
The individual will provide leadership focus on aspects of change, including people, business processes, systems and technology, job roles, and organizational structural changes.
OCM Lead will partner with the business/function to ensure organizational change management is integrated into projects, applying a structured change management approach and methodology for the people side of change for business/function.
Skills:
Leverage change management methodology and apply it as appropriate for the business environment, adjusting as needed to ensure focus is on execution and impact for the people-side change driven by a transformation initiative.
Develop Project OCM Approach and Strategy documents.
Identify potential people-side risks and anticipated points of resistance and develop specific plans to mitigate or address the concerns.
Develop and execute a set of actionable and targeted change management plans, including a communication plan, a stakeholder management plan, a change impact plan, and a training plan (if applicable).
Understand, communicate, and contribute to IT organization change program goals & strategies.
Provide leadership & implement a change management process and tools to support change adoption.
Support the design, development, delivery, and management of communications.
Lead change impact analyses, assess change readiness, and identify key stakeholders.
Confront and manage conflict in a constructive and timely manner. Highlight issues at the appropriate levels and take ownership of resolving them.
Establish and maintain relationships with all levels across the company and external partners.
Conducts change readiness (when applicable), change impact assessments, and post-change management assessments to determine the effectiveness of communication, training, change implementation, and user understanding.
Gain executive sponsorship, manage stakeholders, define stakeholder impacts, drive stakeholder awareness, and guide business engagement (champions and super users).
Utilize innovative, creative approaches and continuous improvement to drive communications, training, change management, and other human resources-related content to improve the absorption and adoption of key messages.
Support the development of reference guides, FAQs, videos, scripting, workflows, and other documentation to complement training efforts.
Utilize creative, alternative approaches to traditional classroom training, including e-learning, video, and self-directed methods.
Experience
Experience with major transformational and cultural change programs leading to new capabilities.
Ability to apply a structured change management approach and methodology for the people-sided change caused by projects and change efforts.
Experience with organizational design and organizational effectiveness tasks and delivery.
Highly developed communication skills with expertise in producing organization-wide communications and communication strategy, including cascading messages, collateral, talking points, posters, job aids, presentations, etc.
Experience with project management approaches, tools, and phases of the project lifecycle.
Demonstrated strong leadership skills, excellent active listening skills and ability to work effectively at all levels across the global organization.
Minimum Education:
Bachelor’s Degree or higher in communications, training, organizational change management or information systems.
Minimum Experience / Training Required:
Extensive experience (at least 5–7 years) leading change, communication, and training efforts for multiple global, complex technology implementations.
Prior consulting experience includes delivering projects and navigating client-facing environments.
Design Thinking, Culture and Branding/Marketing experience preferred.
LaMarsh Managed Change, Prosci, CCMP or other Change Management Certification
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