Terumo Aortic have an exciting new position for an experienced Change Manager. Deploy and develop your change management experience in a challenging project based setting, making a key contribution to the next part of our growth journey, here at Terumo Aortic.
Working closely with our Change & Engagement Director and our project leaders, this is a fantastic opportunity for someone to help influence the success of our Change Management strategy and delivery outcomes, whilst working within a company that truly changes the lives of our customers.
The main responsibilities of the role;
- Focus on the people side of change - including changes to business processes, systems and technology, job roles and organization structures
- Lead the change workstream(s) for multiple projects
- Assess change requirements and deploy key change tools and techniques to manage resistance to and adoption of change.
- Create and implement change management strategies and plans – maximising employee adoption of change and minimizing resistance to change.
- Support business leaders and stakeholders in their role as change sponsors and agents throughout the project lifecycle
- Communicate programme ideas / visions with senior managers, gaining their buy in and support for implementation
- Monitor and provide feedback on transformation & change metrics
- Support project teams in delivering a mindful approach to change & transformation activities
- Ensure that key decisions throughout the program are documented and aligned with key stakeholders
- Proactively highlights risks, dependencies and resistance across programmes / projects, - providing clear metrics and commentary on programme / project status
- Support the Change & Engagement Director in the delivery of business objectives
- Support ongoing development & delivery of change management capability in Terumo Aortic – contributing to our change strategy, developing and delivering change management training
The successful candidate will possess;
Essential experience / skills we’d love you to have
- Experience in managing the change workstream within business change and transformation programmes / projects
- Experience, knowledge and application of change management models, principles, methodologies and tools
- Experience of handling multiple projects / initiatives simultaneously and executing activities to completion
- Experience of, and the ability to operate in ambiguous scenarios
- Experience of navigating stakeholders at all levels in the business
- Flexible, adaptable and resilient self starter - takes the initiative
- Exceptional communication skills – both written and verbal, with the ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences
- Applied facilitation skills – meetings & workshops
- Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships, influencing others to move towards a common vision or goal
- Good analysis skills – looking for patterns in information from surveys & feedback
- Problem solving skills
Nice to have experience / skills, other things you might bring
- Experience with culture change initiatives
- Experience with design, improvements, and mapping of business processes
- Experience in manufacturing industries
- Experience with technology change
- Experience with strategy planning
- People management skills – influencing & coaching (direct / indirect)
- Multi site / multi geography business experience
- Familiarity with project management approaches, tools and phases of the project lifecycle
- Prince2 or equivalent qualification
- Change management certification
- Degree, or equivalent business experience
Some occasional international travel will be required – typically to our US site in Miami