Change Management COE Lead

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The Change Management COE Lead is responsible for establishing and driving AGCO’s global change management strategy for a distributed workforce of ~25,000 employees. Reporting into HR, this role builds organizational change capability across moments that matter spanning the employee lifecycle, strengthens leader readiness to drive results through change, and ensures consistent, effective change execution across regions and business units.

This leader plays two critical roles. One is strategic thought leadership, shaping the approach for large-scale, complex, global transformations that span financial, people, process, technology, systems, and cultural dimensions. They develop frameworks, tools, training, and advisory capabilities that enable leaders, managers and employees to successfully adopt change. The second centers on operational execution, translating strategy into structured plans and delivering against them during periods of significant organizational change.

• Partner with senior leadership, HR, Communications, IT, and PMO to embed change principles early in planning and solution design.
• Define and evolve the organization’s global change management strategy, ensuring alignment as required with our farmer first AGvance strategy in relation to AGCO’s growth, transformation and people initiatives.
• Design and drive change strategies for complex, matrixed global initiatives, including financial restructures, operating model changes, global process modernization, and major technology implementations.
• Establish change governance, standards, and methodologies that ensure consistent, high-quality adoption outcomes across diverse regions and teams.

• Build a scalable enterprise-wide capability for leading and managing change, with targeted development for leaders, managers, and employees across our offices and shop floors.
• Design and deliver training, workshops, and learning programs that prepare leaders, managers and employees to navigate large, complex transformation environments.
• Create and continuously enhance a library of practical tools, templates, and assessments that support projects with varying levels of complexity and impact.
• Coach leaders and project teams to strengthen change leadership and improve organizational readiness.

• Develop and maintain standardized change management frameworks and tools that are adaptable for high-impact, cross-functional transformations
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• Ensure tools and methodologies reflect global applicability and support cultural nuance across regions.
• Promote adoption of COE resources and ensure tools remain modern, relevant, and user-friendly.
• Lever technology to include AI and automation where practicable to support change management initiatives.

• Serve as a strategic thought partner for enterprise transformation initiatives, advising on stakeholder engagement, communications, readiness, and long-term adoption strategies.
• Conduct change impact assessments, risk analyses, and organizational readiness evaluations, especially for transformations involving multi-dimensional impacts.
• Provide insights and recommendations that help senior leaders manage complex change across functions, geographies, and cultural contexts.

• Plan and execute operational change initiatives, ensuring changes are delivered on time, within scope, and with minimal business disruption.
• Coordinate cross functional stakeholders to align change activities, timelines, and ownership.
• Manage day-to-day execution of change plans, including process updates, operational readiness, and go-live support.
• Track progress, adoption, and issues; escalate risks and recommend corrective actions as needed.
• Support communication and engagement efforts to drive understanding and adoption at the…