Organizational Change Management Lead

About the role

The Organizational Change Management (OCM) Lead is a senior, client-facing consulting and practice leadership role responsible for leading complex organizational change engagements supporting Blue Yonder supply chain transformations. This role combines hands-on OCM delivery, executive advisory, team leadership, client capability building, methodology development, and business development.

Responsibilities

• Lead OCM engagements across complex enterprise and supply chain transformation programs.
• Conduct organizational, stakeholder, change impact, readiness, and role/job-design assessments to identify risks, impacts, and mitigation strategies.
• Develop and execute integrated OCM strategies and plans, including communications, stakeholder alignment, business readiness, and risk mitigation.
• Design and facilitate executive sessions, stakeholder alignment workshops, focus groups, discovery sessions, and cross-functional working sessions.
• Establish business readiness teams and change champion networks to engage impacted employees and support communication, readiness, adoption, and reinforcement.
• Develop and deploy change readiness surveys and use findings to identify readiness gaps, resistance, and mitigation actions.
• Audit organizational structures, responsibilities, decision rights, skills, and future-state ways of working and provide recommendations to support successful transformation.
• Advise and coach C-suite executives and senior leaders on sponsorship, leadership alignment, communications, and their role in driving adoption and transformation outcomes.
• Build alignment across functional leaders around transformation objectives, business impacts, and cross-functional requirements.
• Coach client OCM resources to build sustainable internal change-management capabilities and self-sufficiency.
• Lead, coach, and mentor OCM consultants while providing quality oversight across engagements.
• Establish and continuously improve OCM standards, processes, methodologies, tools, frameworks, templates, accelerators, and reusable delivery assets.
• Incorporate engagement lessons learned, client feedback, emerging practices, and evolving transformation needs to strengthen OCM delivery.
• Partner with project and program management to integrate OCM activities, milestones, dependencies, resources, and risks into overall implementation plans.
• Support OCM workforce planning, recruiting, interviewing, selection, and development of internal and contract OCM resources.
• Support business development through discovery, OCM solution design, estimating, staffing approaches, proposals, Statements of Work, and client presentations.
• Articulate the business value of OCM at the executive level, connecting change management and adoption to business readiness, implementation risk, value realization, and transformation outcomes.

Requirements

• 12+ years of progressive Organizational Change Management, transformation, or related consulting experience, including significant experience leading complex engagements and OCM teams.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise technology, supply chain, process, or organizational transformation programs.
• Strong experience with organizational and stakeholder assessments, change impact analysis, communications, stakeholder alignment, business readiness, organizational design, change networks, and risk mitigation.
• Demonstrated ability to design and facilitate executive workshops, stakeholder sessions, focus groups, and cross-functional working sessions.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to advise, influence, and coach C-suite and senior executives.
• Experience building client OCM capability and coaching OCM professionals to independently apply methodologies, tools, and leading practices.
• Experience leading, mentoring, and developing OCM consultants and providing quality oversight across multiple engagements.
• Experience developing and implementing OCM methodologies, frameworks, processes, tools, templates, and reusable consulting assets.
• Strong knowledge of Prosci, ADKAR, SAP Activate, or comparable change methodologies, with experience working in Agile, waterfall, and hybrid environments.
• Strong understanding of project and program management practices and the ability to integrate OCM activities into overall implementation plans.
• Experience recruiting and interviewing OCM professionals and contract resources.
• Strong consulting, facilitation, executive communication, stakeholder management, and presentation skills.
• Experience supporting business development, solution development, proposals, estimates, Statements of Work, and client presentations.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.

Qualifications

• Prosci Certified Change Practitioner or comparable professional OCM certification.
• Experience with Blue Yonder or other enterprise supply chain solutions and platforms.
• Experience supporting transformation across supply chain capabilities such as Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Inventory Optimization, Integrated Business Planning, Allocation and Replenishment, Warehouse Management, Transportation Management, or related solutions.
• Understanding of the organizational, process, role, skill, governance, and behavioral changes associated with enterprise supply chain implementations.
• Experience with cloud/SaaS, AI-enabled, or digital transformation programs.
• Experience establishing or advancing an OCM practice, Center of Excellence, delivery methodology, or consulting capability.
• Professional services, enterprise software, or management consulting experience.
• Experience leading global, multi-functional, or multi-region transformation initiatives.

Skills

• Leadership and strategic thinking.
• Change management methodologies (Prosci, ADKAR, SAP Activate).
• Project and program management.
• Client relationship management.
• Stakeholder engagement and facilitation.
• Business readiness and readiness assessment.
• Organizational design and restructuring.
• Communication and presentation skills.
• Business development and proposal writing.
• Consulting and coaching.
• Team leadership and mentoring.

Benefits

Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision coverage, 401K with Matching, Flexible Time Off, Corporate Fitness Program, and a variety of voluntary benefits such as Legal Plans, Accident and Hospital Indemnity, Pet Insurance, and more. At Blue Yonder, we are committed to a workplace that fosters inclusion and belonging, and we are an equal opportunity employer.

Pay

$160,000 - $195,000 base salary range, with potential for performance bonuses or commissions.

Schedule

Full-time, with the ability to travel up to 30%.