Change Manager Automotive

As a Change Manager, you are responsible for the people-dependent aspects of specific projects and programs, reducing the time to implement, minimizing resistance by involving people, optimizing communication channels, and supporting people to understand the change journey.

You are responsible for assessing the organizational change impact of Enterprise IT and Business projects and ensuring that appropriate change responses and plans are implemented to ensure a successful transition.

This specific role will be strongly focused on the successful adoption of new processes and tooling for a large-scale software deployment across our software engineering community which will enable standardization and efficiencies across the software development lifecycle.

What your role will look like:

• Responsible for all aspects of organizational change management (OCM) related to the software rollout program.
• For different business functions, then plan and execute the OCM plan in a cross-functional manner and coordinate with focal points with the different business units and regions.
• Develop and implement business readiness assessments 

• Change assessment questionnaire Communication plans
• Develop and implement, Stakeholder analysis, Impact assessments, and Training needs analysis
• Create change networks and bring innovation and efficiency to supporting users through the change journey
• Create key change artefacts
• Lead stakeholder workshops
• Developing and embedding new working methods to help users transition to their target state.
• Implement a meeting cadence and content to monitor and control the execution of the OCM plan with the different functional teams.
• Execute all processes and procedures established necessary for organizational change management, with clearly defined KPIs/metrics to measure performance.
• Assess and verify progress with key milestones in the OCM plan in relation to scope, cost, and timing commitments.
• Operate as the primary point of contact for all topics related to organizational change management across the program.
• Own and drive the resolution of issues and risks that are directly linked to organizational change management.
• Ensure compliance with release management and change management practices.
• Other duties as required.

What you’ll have:
• Demonstrable experience and expertise with both organizational change management in a business-facing role, along with a proven track record of producing results.
• Functional domain experience relative to the software development lifecycle for project development (ASPICE, v-model, etc.) in automotive, industrial or electronics industry settings.
• In-depth knowledge of processes and tooling related to organizational change management, with proven results in previous roles and with the delivery of organizational change.
• Demonstrable experience with the creation and execution of organizational change management plans, with a specific focus on communications, training, and testing activities.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in an appropriate technical or business-based field.
• 10+ years of relevant change management experience with at least 5 of these in complex global program sanding programs.
• Knowledge and experience of change management principles, methodologies, and tools
• Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills across project teams, key partners, and executive management.
• Change management diploma, certification or similar qualification (APMG or PROSCI) desirable


What you’ll bring:
• Be Strategic: Proven strategic thinking plan ahead adopting future intelligence to break down barriers.
• Be a Leader: Visionary leadership, understanding the downstream impact of your decisions
• Be Curious: Explore your curiosity, challenging the status quo.
• Be Accountable: hold yourself and your team to critical deadlines and commitments.
• Be Influential: Communicate a compelling and inspired vision or purpose for the project to motivate and onboard the team. Also, articulate and present to all layers of management.
• Be Proactive: Clear mindset, anticipating and developing strategies for future consequences and trends, also mitigate risks to cost, scope, schedule, and customer satisfaction.
• Be Results Driven: Dedication to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers.
• Be Adaptable: Cope with change and work effectively without having the total picture.
• Be Organized: Know how to organize people and activities into an efficient workflow.
• Be a Problem Solver: Solve difficult problems with effective solutions using rigorous logic and methods.
• Be Transparent: Provide direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others, being upfront and transparent to how you conduct business.

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