Change Manager Resume
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SUMMARY:
- A solid understanding of how people go through a change and the change process
- Experience and knowledge of change management principles, methodologies and tools
- Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal
- Excellent active listening skills
- Ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences
- Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships
- Ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal
- Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations
- Resilient and tenacious with a propensity to persevere
- Forward looking with a holistic approach
- Organized with a natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics
- Problem solving and root cause identification skills
- Able to work effectively at all levels in an organization
- Must be a team player and able to work collaboratively with and through others
- Acute business acumen and understanding of organizational issues and challenges
- Familiarity with project management approaches, tools and phases of the project lifecycle
- Experience with large - scale organizational change efforts
- Change management certification or designation desired
- The change manager will play a key role in ensuring projects (change initiatives) meet objectives on time and on budget by increasing employee adoption and usage.
- Will focus on the people side of change, including changes to business processes, systems and technology, job roles and organization structures.
- The primary responsibility will be creating and implementing change management strategies and plans that maximize employee adoption and usage and minimize resistance.
- The change manager will work to drive faster adoption, higher ultimate utilization of and proficiency with the changes that impact employees.
- The change manager may or may not have supervisory responsibility, but will have to work through many others in the organization to succeed.
- The change manager will act as a coach for senior leaders and executives in helping them fulfill the role of change sponsor.
- The change manager will also provide direct support and coaching to all levels of managers and supervisors as they help their direct reports through transitions.
- The change manager will also support project teams in integrating change management activities into their project plans.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Change Manager
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Apply a structured methodology and lead change management activities
- Apply a change management process and tools to create a strategy to support adoption of the changes required by a project or initiative.
- Complete change management assessments
- Create actionable deliverables for the five change management levers: communications plan, sponsor roadmap, coaching plan, training plan, resistance management plan
- Define and measure success metrics and monitor change progress
- Support organizational design and definition of roles and responsibilities
Confidential
Change Manager
Responsibilities:
- Support communication efforts
- Support the design, development, delivery and management of communications.
- Support and engage senior leaders
- Coach managers and supervisors
- Engage and communicate change to end user community
- Assess the change impact
- Conduct impact analyses, assess change readiness and identify key stakeholders.
- Identify, analyze and prepare risk mitigation tactics
- Identify and manage anticipated resistance
- Coordinate efforts with other specialists
- Track and report issues
- Manage stakeholders
- Support training efforts
- Provide input, document requirements and support the design and delivery of training programs.
- Consult and coach project teams
- Evaluate and ensure user readiness