Change Management Consultant - Large Programs

Andersen Corporation • Oak Park, MN

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About The Position

The Change Management Consultant serves as the organizational change management lead for one or more business-critical transformation programs and strategic initiatives. This role is accountable for developing and executing comprehensive change strategies that ensure business readiness, stakeholder adoption, and achievement of program objectives. The consultant partners closely with executive sponsors, business leaders, project teams, communications, training, and functional stakeholders to identify change impacts, assess organizational readiness, mitigate adoption risks, and measure realization of expected business outcomes. This role ensures change management activities are integrated into overall program execution and provides ongoing measurement and reporting of change effectiveness, readiness, adoption, and sustainability.

Requirements

• Minimum of eight (8) years of progressive experience in human resources, organization development or change management; 3 years + leading strategic change management initiatives
• Change Management Certification
• Bachelor’s degree in business, human resources, organizational development, related field or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated experience serving as the organizational change management lead for enterprise-wide or business-critical transformation initiatives.
• Experience establishing change success metrics and using data analytics to assess readiness, adoption, and business outcomes.
• Proven ability to influence executive leaders and drive sponsor accountability.
• Experience building and presenting change effectiveness metrics, dashboards, and executive-level progress reports.
• Demonstrated success leading organizational readiness efforts across multiple stakeholder groups and functions.
• Experience integrating change management activities into large-scale program and project plans.
• Strong facilitation skills, including executive workshops, stakeholder alignment sessions, and readiness reviews.

Responsibilities

• Lead organizational change management for strategic initiatives.
• Serves as the change management lead for one or more business critical transformation programs, ensuring change strategy aligns with business objectives, program milestones, and expected outcomes
• Drive business readiness and adoption planning.
• Define readiness criteria, adoption goals, and transition/sustain requirements.
• Assess organizational preparedness throughout the project lifecycle and provide recommendations to leaders regarding implementation and go-live readiness.
• Measure change effectiveness and report outcomes.
• Establish and monitor key change metrics, including readiness, stakeholder engagement, adoption, utilization, and sustainment measures.
• Develop dashboards and executive reporting that provide actionable insights and recommendations
• Conduct change impact and stakeholder assessments.
• Identify impacted stakeholder/audience groups, assess organizational impacts, evaluate change risks and resistance, and develop mitigation strategies to increase adoption and reduce business disruption.
• Partner with Exec Sponsors and Business leaders.
• Build leadership alignment and sponsor capability through coaching, consultation and engagement strategies that strengthen leader ownership and accountability for successful adoption.
• Develop and execute communication, engagement, and learning/reinforcement strategies.
• Partner with corporate communications and project leaders to create targeted communication and stakeholder engagement plans that build awareness, understanding, commitment and advocacy.
• Partner with Learning & Development and business leaders to identify learning needs and implement training, reinforcement, and sustainment activities supporting long-term behavioral change.
• Create and maintain change management deliverables and governance.
• Using Andersen tools, frameworks and methodology, develop and maintain key deliverables including change strategies, roadmaps, stakeholder analyses, impact assessments, readiness assessments, adoption scorecards and sustainment plans while ensuring change activities are integrated into overall program governance and execution plans.

Benefits

• 401 (k) Plan, Employer Fixed Contributions & Company Matching
• Profit Sharing
• Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), Health Savings Account (HSA) and Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off & Paid Holidays
• Paid Maternity Leave & Paid Parental Leave
• Career Growth Planning & Nationwide Career Opportunities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior