Title: Organizational Change Management
Location: Waukegan, Illinois
Duration: 4 Month , 20 hrs./per week
Leverage change management methodology and apply as appropriate for the business environment, adjusting as needed to ensure focus is on execution and impact for the people-side change driven by a transformation initiative.
Develop Project OCM Approach and Strategy documents.
Identify potential people-side risks and anticipated points of resistance and develop specific plans to mitigate or address the concerns.
Develop and execute set of actionable and targeted change management plans, including communication plan, stakeholder management plan, change impacts, & training plan (if applicable).
Understand, communicate, and contribute to IT organization change program goals & strategies.
Provide leadership & implement change management process and tools to support change adoption.
Support the design, development, delivery, and management of communications.
Lead change impact analyses, assess change readiness and identify key stakeholders.
Confront and manage conflict in a constructive and timely manner. Highlight issues to the appropriate levels and take ownership to resolve them.
Establish and maintain relationships with all levels across the company and external partners.
Conducts change readiness (when applicable), change impact assessments, and post change management assessments to determine effectiveness of communication, training, change implementation and user understanding.
Gain executive sponsorship, manage stakeholders, define stakeholder impacts, drive stakeholder awareness, guide business engagement (champion /super users)
Utilize innovative, creative approaches and continuous improvement to drive communications, training, change management and other human resources-related content to improve the absorption and adoption of key messages.
Support the development of reference guides, FAQs, videos, scripting, workflows, and other documentation to complement training efforts.
Utilize creative, alternative approaches to traditional classroom training including e-learning, video, and self-directed methods.
Experience with major transformational, cultural change programs leading to new capabilities.
Ability to apply a structured change management approach and methodology for the people-sided change caused by projects and change efforts.
Experience with organizational design and organizational effectiveness tasks and delivery
Advanced communication skills with expertise in producing organization-wide communications,
communication strategy, including cascading messages, collateral, talking points, posters, job aids, presentations, etc.
Experience with project management approaches, tools, and phases of the project lifecycle
Demonstrated strong leadership skills, excellent active listening skills and ability to work effectively at all levels across the global organization.
Minimum Education:
Bachelor's Degree or higher in communications, training, organizational change management or information systems
Minimum Experience / Training Required:
Experience (at least 5 - 7 years) leading change, communication, and training efforts for multiple global, complex technology implementations
Prior consulting experience delivering projects and navigating client-facing environments.
Design Thinking, Culture and Branding/Marketing experience preferred.
LaMarsh, PROSCI, CCMP or other Change Management Certification
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional and branded generic medicines.
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