Assistant Manager/Manager - Change Management - HR Function

Assistant Manager/Manager - Change Management (HR) for a reputed company in Kochi/Trivandrum

- Ensure high quality deliverables are produced for the project by exhaustive internal reviews and obtain excellent feedback from the client and global project counterparts

- Be recognised as a subject matter expert in one or more areas in the HR functional domain.

- Drive effective client communication, cadence and build relations with client and project team counterparts across global locations

- Support development of thought leadership, collateral, tools, techniques, methodologies to enhance change management and broader capability offering within the practice.

- Support leadership in developing the practice through collaboration with the company's global offices and demand generation for change management projects

- Perform the role of a counsellor and coach, define and set goals, conduct performance reviews and ensure ongoing learning and development of the team

- Build capability in change management pillar in collaboration with various parts of the organisation and other company member firms

Skills and attributes for success :

- High integrity and commitment to work in a new and challenging environment

- Ability to manage ambiguity and be proactive

- Strong communication and presentation skills

- Cross cultural awareness and sensitivity

- High energy levels, agility and adaptability

- Open to travel for client projects that are approved as per the company and country specific travel advisory guidelines

To qualify for the role, you must have :

- Postgraduate degree or equivalent with a specialization in Human Resources (India or abroad)

- 5-7 years of relevant experience

- Experience leading change management efforts on global client projects

- Experience supporting a range of HR Transformation, Digital Strategy, and ERP Transformation projects from strategic design to implementation as part of a globally distributed team

- Experience in being part of a large global transformation effort, in a change management role to drive business readiness and business adoption

- Strong working knowledge in the implementation of some of the following organizational change management elements: change strategy and visioning, communication strategy, change impact assessment, business readiness assessment, stakeholder management and engagement, training design and delivery, change network implementation, and organization alignment

- Experience in managing a delivery team of at least 1-2 individuals, providing advice and guidance on career development, L&D, and performance management

- Experience in learning design and content development using techniques of instructional design and application of it to enable a change program

- Experience in designing and deploying behavioural interventions to help drive accelerated adoption and foster cultural change

Ideally, you'll also have :

- APMG, PROSCI- or equivalent certification

- Exposure to stakeholder workshop design, content curation, and co-facilitation experience

- Experience in Communications strategy, planning, execution

- Knowledge of new age/digital solutions to enable change such as automation, gamification, advanced analytics/visualization, day-in-life-of workshops

- Experience in working with data using analytics/statistical tools such as SPSS, Power BI, R, Spotfire

- Knowledge of one or more HCM cloud - Oracle, SAP, and other out-of-box HR technologies

- Working knowledge of Project management