Senior Manager, Change Management

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Joining Nestlé means becoming part of an inclusive workplace that inspires innovation, encourages strategic thinking and creativity, and celebrates your achievements. No matter where you work within the organization, you are empowered to challenge the status quo, embrace risk‑taking, and pioneer new ideas. Our supportive and collaborative environment encourages bold ambitions and continuous learning so that everyone can grow and thrive.

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• Leads and develops a team of change management professionals.
• Influences and aligns key stakeholders and senior leaders to enable change.
• Identifies and escalates interdependencies and risks across concurrent projects and impacted groups, and coordinates plans accordingly to reduce overlap and disruption.
• Leads efforts to advance change management standards and practices across the organization.
• Applies a structured change management methodology and adapts tools and approaches to project goals to drive adoption and sustainment.
• Develops tailored change management plans (communications, stakeholder engagement, sponsorship, training, reinforcement, etc.) aligned to project scope, timeline, resources, and milestones in partnership with the project team.
• Partners with leaders and cross‑functional teams to define and deliver communications, messaging, and coordinated training plans that support transformation.
• Serves as an advisor and oversight lead for change work executed by project teams and/or assigned change managers, including support for intake, resourcing, and delivery direction.
• Partners with senior leaders to define the vision, goals, and success measures, and coaches leaders on actions that increase adoption.
• Monitors the effectiveness of change activities and adoption outcomes, incorporates feedback, and adjusts plans to improve results.
• Facilitates workshops to assess impacts, gather inputs that inform project planning, and align stakeholders on required actions.
• Drives continuous improvement in change impact assessment and delivery by simplifying deliverables and leveraging new technologies and tools.

• Leadership & Team Development – Ability to lead, coach, and develop a team of change managers, providing clear direction, feedback, and quality oversight to ensure consistent, high‑impact delivery across initiatives.
• Strategic Advisory & Problem Solving – Serves as a trusted advisor to change managers and project teams, guiding complex decision‑making, shaping effective strategies, and navigating ambiguity.
• Change Strategy & Execution – Deep expertise in designing and overseeing end‑to‑end change management strategies that drive adoption, utilization, and sustained business outcomes.
• Executive Presence & Strategic Storytelling – Demonstrates strong executive presence and the ability to translate complex change into clear, compelling narratives that drive alignment, understanding, and action.
• Stakeholder Communication & Influence – Demonstrates executive‑level communication, influencing senior leaders and tailoring messaging to all audience levels, with the ability to clearly articulate a strong, well‑informed point of view.
• Coaching & Capability Building – Proven ability to build change management capability across the team through hands‑on coaching, mentoring, and knowledge sharing.
• Cross‑Functional Integration & Collaboration – Ability to collaborate across teams and align change activities across functions, ensuring consistency in messaging, timing, and execution.
• Enterprise Perspective & Systems Thinking – Ability to connect the dots across initiatives, identifying interdependencies, overlaps, and downstream impacts across projects, functions, and impacted groups.
• Risk Identification & Mitigation –…