Change Management lead

Lake Shore Associates • Chicago, IL

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Lake Shore Associates is looking for an experienced Change Management professional who thrives in complex, high-stakes transformation environments. We are seeking a Change Manager with proven divestiture, separation, and Transition Services Agreement (TSA) experience to lead the people and organizational side of a business separation. This lead will develop and execute the change strategy across the TSA, Day 1 readiness, Day 2 transition, and longer-term separation journey, ensuring leaders, employees, and impacted stakeholders understand what is changing, when it is changing, and what is required to successfully transition to the future state.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of Change Management experience is required.
• Experience leading change for a large-scale corporate divestiture, spin-off, or separation from planning through Day 1 and Day 2.
• Experience with TSA definition, transition, stabilization, and exit activities.
• Experience supporting global or multi-geography transformations.
• Prosci, CCMP, or other recognized Change Management certification.
• This role requires a strategic thinker who is highly execution-oriented and can establish the overall change framework, lead cross-functional change activities, and drive the detailed work required to ensure the organization is ready for separation, prepared for Day 1, and positioned for a successful Day 2 transition.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Change Management plan for the divestiture and separation, aligning change activities to the broader transaction, TSA, Day 1, and Day 2 objectives.
• Develop and execute the organizational change roadmap across the separation lifecycle, including TSA transition, Day 1 readiness and, Day 2 stabilization.
• Develop organizational change impact and readiness assessments, stakeholder engagement, executive communications, leadership alignment, employee communications across impacted functions and geographies.
• Establish the organizational readiness activities to ensure impacted business units, functional teams, and employees are prepared for Day 1 and subsequent Day 2 changes.
• Develop the communications strategy and integrated communications plan for the separation, including key messages, timing, audiences, communication channels, leadership talking points, FAQs, and employee-facing materials.
• Build and manage the stakeholder engagement plan, identifying key stakeholders and sponsors and establishing the appropriate engagement cadence throughout the separation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed