Position: Change Management Consultant

Location: Bangalore/Gurgaon

Skills: change management, create strategic docs and execute multiple projects.

Looking for People from Consulting Companies only:

The change manager will:

- 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.

- Support communication efforts

- Support the design, development, delivery and management of communications.

- Assess the change impact

- Conduct impact analyses, assess change readiness and identify key stakeholders.

- Support training efforts

- Provide input, document requirements and support the design and delivery of training programs.

Additional responsibilities may include:

- Complete change management assessments

- Identify, analyze and prepare risk mitigation tactics

- Identify and manage anticipated resistance

- Consult and coach project teams

- Create actionable deliverables for the five change management levers: communications plan, sponsor roadmap, coaching plan, training plan, resistance management plan

- Support and engage senior leaders

- Coach managers and supervisors

- Support organizational design and definition of roles and responsibilities

- Coordinate efforts with other specialists

- Integrate change management activities into project plan

- Evaluate and ensure user readiness

- Manage stakeholders

- Track and report issues

- Define and measure success metrics and monitor change progress

- Support change management at the organizational level

- Manage the change portfolio

Analytical/Decision Making Responsibilities:

- Demonstrate mastery of the process competency principles and practices

- Ability to identify, escalate and manage project risks

Knowledge and Skills Requirements:

- 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

Education:

- A degree in Computer Science or a related discipline; or equivalent work experience

Experience:

- 6+ years of experience in project management

- 3 to 5 years experience in change project management or related technical field (application development, deployment/implementation and infrastructure)

- Work experience in a professional services industry, preferred

Certification Requirements (Good to have):

- Project management certification (PMI/CAPM or PMP, PRINCE2)

- Familiarity with ITIL v3 would be advantageous

- Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP) or similar

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