Principal Specialist, HR Change Management

About the role

The Principal Specialist, HR Change Management is Renesas’ principal advisor for enterprise HR transformation and adoption. The role translates complex people, organization, process, policy, and technology priorities into coordinated change programs spanning governance, stakeholder alignment, communications, readiness, enablement, and adoption. Working globally across functions and regions, the role resolves ambiguous change challenges and influences senior stakeholders through expertise rather than direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise change strategy: Define and lead integrated strategies for Renesas-wide HR and organization priorities, covering the case for change, sponsorship, stakeholder analysis, readiness, communications, learning, resistance, reinforcement, and benefits realization.
• Immediate transformation portfolio: Lead change across evolving priorities such as organization simplification, job re-leveling and title cleanup, technical ladder program, rewards and benefits harmonization, HR process standardization, and digital, automation, or AI-enabled ways of working.
• Portfolio governance and delivery: Establish integrated roadmaps, milestones, interdependencies, decision forums, ownership, resource needs, risk escalation, and accountability from design through stabilization.
• Communications and enablement: Translate complex priorities into executive briefings, leader narratives, manager toolkits, presentations, FAQs, digital content, cascade plans, training, and practical support for employee conversations.
• Stakeholder and sponsor alignment: Build coalitions across HR, Legal, Communications, Finance, business functions, and regions; align outcomes, sequencing, and employee impacts while surfacing competing needs early.
• Employee experience and digital engagement: Create accessible channels and self-service resources that provide employees and managers with reliable information, tools, updates, and support throughout the change journey.
• Insights and adoption: Use readiness, adoption, sentiment, service, process, and channel data to remove barriers, refine interventions, demonstrate value, and sustain new behaviors.
• Capability and innovation: Build change capability through coaching, reusable methods, communities of practice, and mentoring, while applying external practices in workforce transformation, digital enablement, and responsible AI.
• Serves as Renesas’ principal advisor and thought leader for complex, enterprise-scale HR change.
• Partners with senior business and HR leaders to establish strategy, principles, and priorities across functions and geographies.
• Resolves significant and unique issues requiring conceptual thinking, independent judgment, and a long-term view.
• Develops enterprise methods and standards where established approaches are insufficient.
• Owns outcomes affecting the HR function and multiple business areas through expertise, influence, and cross-functional leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent advanced knowledge in Human Resources, Organizational Psychology, Business, Communications, Technology, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• Typically 12+ years of progressive experience in change management, HR transformation, organization effectiveness, HR technology, or a related discipline, including complex global initiatives.
• Expertise in change strategy, organization transformation, sponsor and stakeholder management, executive communications, enablement, and adoption measurement.
• Experience across people and organization change, including organization redesign, job architecture, career frameworks, rewards or benefits harmonization, HR process transformation, and digital or AI-enabled adoption.
• Proven ability to advise executives and influence outcomes in a global, matrixed, multicultural environment.
• Strong analytical judgment and working knowledge of responsible AI, data privacy, employee relations, and regional consultation requirements.
• Change management certification such as Prosci, CCMP, or equivalent preferred.

Skills

• Enterprise Change Strategy
• Portfolio Delivery
• Organization and Workforce Transformation
• Job Architecture and Career Programs
• Rewards and Benefits Change
• HR Process and Digital Transformation
• Communications and Manager Enablement
• Governance and Risk
• Adoption Analytics
• Global Collaboration

Pay

The expected annual pay range for this position is $200K - $250K. This position is also eligible for bonus opportunities. Final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience, and skillset of the candidate.

Benefits

• Medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision
• Health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Life insurance, AD&D, and pet insurance
• Company-paid life insurance and AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits
• Paid sick time, paid holidays, and accrued paid vacation