Change Manager

Job-ID29479471Reference26-28955Description:Bachelor Degree: (Required, Preferred or Not Required)Preferred.Role Responsibilities: (what they will be doing) The Change Manager is responsible for developing and executing the project’s change management plan to drive awareness, understanding, readiness, and adoption of the change. They work closely with the Project Manager, business/HR stakeholders, and HR Communications to ensure the people impacts of the change are identified and addressed throughout the project lifecycle. Key responsibilities include:Develop and execute the change management plan, including communications, stakeholder engagement, readiness, training/support, and adoption activities.Assess change impacts to understand who is affected, what is changing for them, and what support is needed.Identify and engage key stakeholders, including leaders, impacted teams, and partners who need to understand, support, or help champion the change.Develop project communications and messaging in partnership with HR Communications, including drafting content, coordinating reviews and approvals, and ensuring communications align to the overall change strategy.Partner with project and business leads to translate project decisions, milestones, and impacts into clear messages and actions for impacted audiences.Develop leader and teammate readiness materials, such as talking points, FAQs, toolkits, presentations, training/support materials, and other resources as needed.Coordinate change activities with the project plan, ensuring communications, engagement, training, and readiness activities occur at the appropriate points in the project.Identify change risks and resistance and develop actions to address gaps in awareness, understanding, readiness, or adoption.Monitor readiness and adoption and adjust the change approach based on stakeholder feedback and emerging project needs.Must Have Skills/Prior Experiences: (Vendor should not submit any candidate that does not have these skills/prior experience.)Must have prior change and communications experience.Plus/Nice to Have Skills/Prior Experiences:(Hiring Manager DOES NOT require these skills/ prior experience. However candidates with any of these will be looked at first.)Work in financial services or highly regulated industry. EEO “Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.”