at Manpower Group in Waukegan, Illinois, United States
Job Description
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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About ManpowerGroup, Parent Company of: Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells
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