Organizational Change Management - Full-time / Part-time

Experis IT ManpowerGroup has partnered with a leading medical device organization in the Chicago, IL area for a Contract with possible extension OCM role to assist their team. Prefer local to Chicago area; remote acceptable but need to be available for key in person meetings.
Industry: Medical Device
Title: OCM
Location:  Prefer local to Chicago area; remote acceptable but need to be available for key in person meetings.
Duration: 12 months (Contract with possible extension)
Pay range: $80-$90 per hour.

Job Description
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 organization 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 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 set of actionable and targeted change management plans, including communication plan, stakeholder management plan, change impacts, & training plan (if applicable).
• Understand, communicate, and contribute to IT organization change program goals & strategies.
• Provide leadership & implement 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 to the appropriate levels and take ownership to resolve 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 effectiveness of communication, training, change implementation and user understanding.
• Gain executive sponsorship, manage stakeholders, define stakeholder impacts, drive stakeholder awareness, guide business engagement (champion /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 with major transformational, 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, 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.

• 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 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