Associate Director, Organizational Change Management (OCM)

Position Title: Organizational Change Manager (OCM) 

Location: U.S.

Employment Type: Full Time  

Background:

Avasant is a Los Angeles, California based top management consulting and research firm providing Strategic Sourcing, IT and Business Transformation, and Global Strategy services to the global Fortune 1000.  Since 2006, Avasant has negotiated over 250B in deals and operates in over 50 countries.  The firm has been recognized as "World's Best Outsourcing Advisor" by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) for ten consecutive years.

The Associate Director, Organizational Change Management  will play a key role in the consulting team as we continue on our high-growth journey while delivering consulting projects to Fortune 1000 clients. With increased complexity of our projects, we are experiencing a need to work closely with customers to work strategically on organizational change management during the implementation journey.

You will lead organizational change management programs for multiple customers undergoing complex transformation journeys guided by Avasant. You will work on refining and developing the organizational change management approach, methodology, deliverables and playbooks. You will be engaged with customer leadership to ensure the effective execution of the organizational change management. You will assess conflicts/risks for your projects. You will become a trusted adviser to our customers, building strong relationships with both clients and internal stakeholders, leading a team to deliver the highest level of customer value and satisfaction.

Role:

• Provide leadership and execution on multiple OCM projects and initiatives, as well as manage strategic OCM efforts, as needed.
• Advise and influence project timelines based on change management needs.
• Work closely with business partners to better understand specific OCM requirements.
• Research, recommend, create business cases, and implement tools and technologies to support OCM initiatives.
• Identify and manage resistance.
• Provide leadership for internal and external OCM resources in executing Change Management strategy.
• Create and implement a process for evaluating the change effort of projects and work with the Portfolio team on using this in project forecasting, planning & prioritization
• Serve as an active member of the Organizational Change team providing feedback, gaps, concerns as well as taking part of creating solutions.
• Create and implement a process for evaluating the change effort of projects and work with the Portfolio team on using this in project forecasting, planning & prioritization.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's and/or Master's Degree
• 10+ years of progressive end-to-end organizational change management delivery experience working with external clients.
• Demonstrated experience as an organizational change management practitioner.
• Experience working on transformation projects, preferably in a fast-paced consulting / professional services set-up.
• Organizational change management experience in implementation of large, complex ERP systems is highly preferred.
• Experience in leading and mentoring people as part of the project life cycle and creating excellence/key standards within the team.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal 
• Exceptional interpersonal and client skills, with a demonstrated ability to gain the confidence and respect of senior level executives 
• Demonstrated leadership, client management, project management and business development skills 
• Able to work independently in a fast-paced environment 
• Willingness to travel

What Avasant Offers 

• Competitive salaries based on education and experience 
• International exposure and a chance to work with global clients including some of the largest multinationals  
• Training and mentoring on latest business and sector practices based on market requirements 
• Opportunity to work with and learn from an international team of industry specialists 
• Performance based Bonuses and Increments 
• Promotions and opportunity to move across service lines 
• Full/Partial funding of industry certifications and skill development programs 
• Dynamic and multicultural work environment 
• Leadership opportunities 
• Paid time off and holidays 
• Communication and connectivity reimbursements 

This role requires candidates to have a current valid work authorization to work in the United States or be Canadian or Mexican nationals eligible for NAFTA TN work authorization as a management consultant. Avasant will not sponsor any other work authorization for any candidates.