Change Manager-Contract

Company Description

Sia Partners is a next-generation consulting firm focused on delivering superior value and tangible results to its clients as they navigate the digital revolution. Our global footprint and expertise in more than 40 sectors and services allow us to enhance our clients’ businesses worldwide. We guide their projects and initiatives in strategy, business transformation, IT & digital strategy, and Data Science.

Job Description

We are working with one of our premier clients, located in the Seattle area, who is in need of a qualified Change Manager as part of a new centralized team providing change management to strategic projects. The contractor will support a variety of projects that range in scope, approach, and complexity with an IT component. The Change Manager is part of a multi-year roadmap to establish and develop change management expertise and capabilities across the enterprise.

Project Length: 12 months

Location: Seattle, WA

Compensation: This role will compensate between $110-$115/HR/W2 depending upon years of experience, education, and relevant certifications. 

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the overall direction and management of projects through designated project managers, ensuring consistency with established processes, consistency across projects and customer satisfaction
• Lead and participate in process improvement through stakeholder interviews and facilitated sessions to gather cross-functional issues and opportunities, recommending best practices as appropriate.
• Assessing and coordinating change management needs across different work streams.
• Developing and maintaining a holistic and integrated strategy for change across the group to best support internal customer needs and to support the business strategy
• Coordinating change plans and activities with other Program and Project Change Managers to ensure alignment with Enterprise change planning
• Engaging and coaching program team members on change management activities including; change strategy development, stakeholder analysis, communication and engagement planning, adoption and sustainment plans, and effectiveness measures to support project success
• Monitor and ensure the quality of projects’ change management activities and deliverables
• Partner with future state owner, program/project manager and project change manager to identify and develop sustainment plan, activities and additional sustainment requisites to successfully engage in the new way of work; solidly secure future state owner engagement with program/project
• Apply methods, tools, and processes for Change Management 
• Designing and facilitating engagements for decision making to drive towards alignment and effective end outcomes

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree Required; Preferably BA or BS in Business Management, Change Management, Communications or related field, PROSCI Certification or equivalent required.
• 10+ years of Organizational Change Management working with a structured Change Management Methodology, Communications, change communications, employee engagement, or employee experience required, skills negotiation and consensus-building facilitation
• Experience with Maintenance and Engineering is highly desireable
• Experience in enterprise-wide or functional level scope ERP, digital change, and design thinking is required
• Experience managing direct reports and cost-effective operation of all project tasks and collaborating with executive team to ensure effective coordination of change activities
• Ability to coach and effectively influencing leaders and Associates to choose to work in new ways and act as an internal or external consultant
• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, and develop coordinated stakeholder management, change management, and communications in support of adopting new ways of working and achieving differentiated business outcomes
• Designing and facilitating working sessions, workshops and/or other types of large engagements
• Creating systems to manage and continuously improve processes that enable strategic visibility across a program
• Strong design and facilitation skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Exceptionally self-motivated and directed
• Fluent in both written and spoken English

Additional Information

At this time, Sia Partners does not intend to pursue employment with applicants who require/will require sponsorship for work authorization in the United States (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa, or any other non-immigrant status). Applicants for employment must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for work authorization.

Our Commitment to Diversity

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) are part of Sia Partners’ DNA. Thanks to our expertise in several sectors and our international growth, our teams include a variety of experiences and cultures. We’re confident that promoting DEIB creates an environment in which everyone can reach their full potential.

Our global network, DEIB@Sia Partners, brings together our people worldwide to facilitate local and global progress, focused on the following areas:

• Gender equality (global Gender Equality Index score of 91/100 for FY19-20)
• LGBTQ+
• Race & Ethnicity
• Working Parents
• Disabilities

Sia Partners is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, remuneration, or discipline, are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs.
To learn more about our mission, values, and business sectors, please visit our website.

Sia Partners is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, remuneration, or discipline, are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs.