Change Management Consultant - Programs

Position: Change Management Consultant - Large Programs
Location: Oak Park Heights

ANDERSEN CORPORATION

SUMMARY:

At Andersen, we see possibility everywhere, every day and in everything we do. The possibility for our employees to achieve their full potential, for our communities to be stronger and for everyone to have a healthier, happier place to live.

Our portfolio of brands — Andersen Windows & Doors, Renewal by Andersen and Fenetres MQ — is crafted to serve customers across the new residential, home improvement and light commercial building sector.

Join our more than 13,000 employees who are inspired every day to deliver exceptional experiences that turn possibility into reality.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

POSITION PURPOSE The Change Management Consultant serves as the organizational change management lead for one or more business-critical transformation programs and strategic initiatives. This role is accountable for developing and executing comprehensive change strategies that ensure business readiness, stakeholder adoption, and achievement of program objectives.

The consultant partners closely with executive sponsors, business leaders, project teams, communications, training, and functional stakeholders to identify change impacts, assess organizational readiness, mitigate adoption risks, and measure realization of expected business outcomes. This role ensures change management activities are integrated into overall program execution and provides ongoing measurement and reporting of change effectiveness, readiness, adoption, and sustainability.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES Lead organizational change management for strategic initiatives.

Serves as the change management lead for one or more business critical transformation programs, ensuring change strategy aligns with business objectives, program milestones, and expected outcomes

Drive business readiness and adoption planning.

Define readiness criteria, adoption goals, and transition/sustain requirements. Assess organizational preparedness throughout the project lifecycle and provide recommendations to leaders regarding implementation and go-live readiness.

Measure change effectiveness and report outcomes.

Establish and monitor key change metrics, including readiness, stakeholder engagement, adoption, utilization, and sustainment measures. Develop dashboards and executive reporting that provide actionable insights and recommendations

Conduct change impact and stakeholder assessments.

Identify impacted stakeholder/audience groups, assess organizational impacts, evaluate change risks and resistance, and develop mitigation strategies to increase adoption and reduce business disruption.

Partner with Exec Sponsors and Business leaders.

Build leadership alignment and sponsor capability through coaching, consultation and engagement strategies that strengthen leader ownership and accountability for successful adoption.

Develop and execute communication, engagement, and learning/reinforcement strategies.

Partner with corporate communications and project leaders to create targeted communication and stakeholder engagement plans that build awareness, understanding, commitment and advocacy. Partner with Learning & Development and business leaders to identify learning needs and implement training, reinforcement, and sustainment activities supporting long-term behavioral change.

Create and maintain change management deliverables and governance.

Using Andersen tools, frameworks and methodology, develop and maintain key deliverables including change strategies, roadmaps, stakeholder analyses, impact assessments, readiness assessments, adoption scorecards and sustainment plans while ensuring change activities are integrated into overall program governance and execution plans.

DIRECTION OF OTHERS This position will not have any direct reports but will support in the coaching, training and development of others in understanding the change initiatives.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION, SKILL AND/OR COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS Minimum of eight (8) years of progressive experience in human resources, organization development or change management; 3 years + leading strategic change management initiatives

Change Management Certification Bachelor’s degree in business, human resources,…