Senior Consultant, Change Management

What Change Management contributes to Cardinal Health

Transformation enables the organization to drive complex and transformational programs through disciplined project/program management and change management strategies.

Change Management provides processes, tools and techniques to successfully transition individuals, groups and organizations from current state to future state. This job family creates and implements change management strategies and plans that increase employee adoption, minimize resistance, and improve the likelihood of successful, sustainable outcomes.

This Sr. Consultant, Change Management will collaborate across multiple levels and functions of the enterprise to lead the people side of major change initiatives. They will join an experienced team of change management professionals partnering to contribute and apply best practices and elevate enterprise ability to successfully move through change.

• Contribute change management expertise and thought leadership to assigned internal clients, bringing a consistent change focus to all aspects of their operation.
• Define and implement a holistic change framework to support client strategic objectives and initiatives. Identify and address interdependencies, risks and opportunities across projects and shared stakeholders.
• Proactively manage a client change portfolio, partnering with leadership to prioritize engagements and address concerns in the context of enterprise objectives and standards.
• Design innovative and comprehensive change strategies to guide individuals, groups and organizations through changes.
• Leverage industry insights and enterprise processes, tools and techniques to craft project change approaches which increase stakeholder adoption, minimize resistance and business disruption, and contribute to successful, sustainable outcomes.
• Conduct rigorous stakeholder and change impact analysis to identify, engage and equip all involved or affected stakeholders – employees as well as external partners – to work through changes and fully embrace future ways of working.
• Collaboratively develop, tailor and refine detailed change plans for complex and transformational projects.
• Establish aligned metrics to monitor the progress of change efforts and evaluate stakeholder readiness and opportunities. Adapt the change approach to address newly discovered insights throughout each project engagement.
• Enable effective executive sponsorship and obtain senior leader support to drive needed changes across their organizations.
• Plan and execute tailored change solutions for assigned projects, including transformational business and technology projects.
• Partner with project management, communications, learning, IT, data analytics, finance and other functions to realize change management and broader project objectives.
• Participate in project leadership, partnering with steering committees and other governing bodies to advance project objectives.
• Foster change capability and change leadership across the enterprise, coaching project teams and equipping leaders and individuals to embed change agility into how we work.

• Bachelor's degree in related field, or equivalent work experience preferred
• Minimum seven years of change management experience preferred
• Demonstrated ability to lead the people side of large-scale business, organizational or technology initiatives
• Prosci certification preferred
• Experience supporting shared services organizations a plus
• Experience in the healthcare industry a plus
• CCMP certification a plus
• Project management experience a plus
• Proven ability to work independently and at the same time foster effective working relationships to collaboratively achieve results
• Recognized success serving as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, advocating for change management best practices and infusing a change leadership perspective into decisions while balancing constraints and navigating ambiguity
• Preference for roles and opportunities that demand a blend of proactive thought leadership, strategic planning and precise, sustained execution
• Capacity to quickly build business acumen and apply relevant change management…