Organizational Change Manager

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Organizational Change Manager based in Canada. We are seeking an experienced Organizational Change Manager to lead complex enterprise transformation initiatives and help organizations navigate change successfully. In this role, you will shape and execute change strategies that align people, processes, operating models, and technology with broader business objectives. You will partner with executives, project leaders, technical teams, and employees to assess organizational readiness, overcome resistance, and drive meaningful adoption. Beyond communications and training, you will influence stakeholder behavior, build trust, and ensure new ways of working are embedded and sustained. You will also contribute to the development of change management methodologies, reusable tools, and consulting best practices. This opportunity is ideal for a strategic yet hands-on change professional who thrives in complex client environments and enjoys turning transformation challenges into measurable, lasting results. Accountabilities - Lead end-to-end change management: Plan and execute organizational change management activities for complex enterprise business and technology transformation programs, ensuring alignment with project goals and business outcomes. - Develop change strategies and roadmaps: Create practical change management plans that address organizational priorities, impacted audiences, implementation milestones, and long-term adoption objectives. - Assess organizational readiness and impact: Conduct change impact assessments, stakeholder analyses, readiness evaluations, and adoption assessments to identify organizational implications, dependencies, and potential risks.

- Manage stakeholder resistance: Identify the underlying causes of resistance, develop targeted mitigation strategies, and build trust and commitment among skeptical or reluctant stakeholders. - Drive stakeholder engagement: Develop engagement strategies for executives, managers, technical teams, and end users, building alignment across groups with competing priorities. - Lead communications and training initiatives: Create communication plans that explain what is changing, why it matters, and how individuals will be affected. Collaborate with training teams to develop role-based learning, enablement, and knowledge-transfer approaches. - Establish adoption measurement: Define key performance indicators, adoption metrics, feedback mechanisms, and reinforcement activities to evaluate change effectiveness and sustain new behaviors. - Integrate change into transformation delivery: Partner with project and program leaders to align change activities with delivery plans, implementation schedules, and transformation roadmaps. - Support organizational transitions: Help clients move from current-state to future-state processes, organizational structures, roles, responsibilities, operating models, and technology platforms. - Advise and influence leadership: Serve as a trusted advisor to client executives and managers, providing recommendations, executive-ready presentations, readiness reports, and clear visibility into adoption risks and required interventions. - Facilitate workshops and difficult conversations: Lead stakeholder sessions, leadership discussions, readiness workshops, and conversations about resistance, organizational impacts, and transformation challenges. - Reinforce sustainable change: Support post-implementation stabilization, continuous improvement, and reinforcement activities to ensure changes are adopted and maintained over time. - Strengthen change management practices: Develop and refine reusable methodologies, playbooks, templates, assessments, tools, and delivery standards to improve consistency and effectiveness across client engagements.