Lead Change Management Consultant

Duke Energy•Charlotte, NC

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Build an exciting, rewarding career with Duke Energy, where you'll find a friendly work environment, opportunities for growth and development, recognition for your work, and competitive pay and benefits. The Lead Change Management Consultant manages all aspects of change on a single complex project, transformational effort or across multiple initiatives within a program. This position is accountable to business leaders for delivering business outcomes that are dependent on people adopting solutions successfully. Defines and delivers robust change management strategies, approaches and plans for multiple engagements that can cross functional boundaries. Applies Prosci methodology, tools and approaches to internal client team members, providing coaching on usage as needed; uses instruments and tools to describe and plan change impacts on multiple engagements and customizes approach and methodology based on previous change impacts and prior experience. Determines contributing factors to strong sponsorship, coaches and supports sponsors on expected behaviors and becomes primary contact for sponsors. Executes and manages change management scope for large scale programs and projects, including sponsorship, coaching, communications, training and resistance management plans. Articulates, envisions and creates desired patterns in human dynamics (behaviors, mindsets and culture). Integrates change management with project management and influences successful mitigation strategies. Develops organizational best practices. Integrates success measures, metrics and monitoring across multiple initiatives in a program.

Requirements

Bachelors degree AND six (6) years related work experience
In lieu of Bachelors degrees AND 6 years related work experience listed above, High School/GED AND 10 years related work experience

Nice To Haves

Masters degree AND eight (8) years related work experience
Certified Change Management Professional
Demonstrated strong leadership skills: negotiation, conflict management skills, influencing skills, ability to give and receive positive and constructive feedback
Demonstrated ability to communicate a vision and obtain buy-in
Ability to adapt and changes as business needs change
Ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
Experience with large-scale change initiatives; experience providing oversight to contingent workers
Experience working with agile teams, approaches and tools
Competency in one or more complementary disciplines such as project management, Agile, innovation, design thinking, customer experience, training, communication, digital transformation
Experience in supplier contract management
Comfort with complexity, ambiguity and change
Experience with leadership meeting preparation and support.
Experience with employee engagement responsibility.

Responsibilities

Develops change management programs to solve complex business group or company issues
Finds innovative solutions
Coaches and advises sponsors
Anticipates internal and/or external business challenges and needs
Provides advice and technical expertise to other organizations/groups and/or executive management in the area of change management