Our Client is a hugely successful Commodity Trading Company, as the Global Change Manager, you work closely with the Executive Committee and Senior Management and play a key role in supporting the success for the company’s global organizational change to business processes, technologies, organizational structure, job roles and systems worldwide across various projects.
Main Responsibilities
- Developing, implementing and leading change management strategies, plans and processes maximising employee adoption of the changes required within the business, including for a new global CTRM (Commodities Trading & Risk Management) and new Microsoft technologies roll out.
- Translating the company’s global vision into granular execution planning
- Assessing the organization’s current change readiness, identifying key stakeholders and managing anticipated resistance to change
- Analysing and preparing risk mitigation tactics and processes
- Designing, developing and delivering the change management communication
- Supporting design and delivery of training programs for employees at all levels
- Completing impact analysis and provide management reporting on evaluations
- Defining and measuring KPI’s and monitoring of change progress
- Consulting and advising project teams to integrate change management activities within their project plans
- Identifying opportunities and providing expertise to senior leaders, frontline managers and supervisors to build resilience to change across the organisation
Skills & Experience
- Degree in Organizational Development, Business Management or similar with concentration in Change Management
- Solid experience and knowledge of change management principles, methodologies and tools, Change Management Professional certification highly preferred
- Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in a global organization, knowledge of the agribusiness industry is a plus, as is prior experience of change management challenges with global new systems roll-outs
- Solid proven experience as Leader of Change Management planning and execution linked to large scale Business & Technology integrations
- Ability to adapt and adopt Best Practices in different organizational environments
- Ability to influence and dialogue with all level of stakeholders in the organization, from Executive Management to operational levels across multiple cultures to make change stick
- Hands-on experience identifying problems at an early stage and effectively solving problems
- Excellent communication, listening, coaching and mentoring skills
- Expertise and experience in promoting and implementing successful change management programmes
- Fluent in English (reading and writing)
- Willing to travel up to 50% during certain projects e.g. Roll outs
