Change Manager
New York, NY
Posted Mar 23, 2017 - Requisition No. 57687
What we look for?
Bloomberg is seeking its newest member of the Global Project Services - SAP Solutions Change Management Office (CMO). Your primary responsibility will be to deliver change management solutions for large-scale, strategic programs including but not limited to existing and emerging products, back-office efficiencies, and compliance. Additionally, you will support the adoption of change management principles by the business each year, using a common framework and methodology. This is an excellent opportunity for you to work closely with senior management to motivate change for enterprise solutions.
What is the Global Project Services - SAP Solutions department all about?
We lead SAP technology and other supporting systems for enterprise processes such as accounting, procurement, supply chain and reporting which impact end-users and stakeholders from across the entire Bloomberg organization. The CMO supports in-house teams of engineers, project analysts, program managers, and all business stakeholders in managing solution adoption. The CMO is also often called upon to support larger, non-SAP programs across the enterprise.
We’ll trust you to:
- Execute change management across the full lifecycle of technology implementations for SAP and other relevant technologies
- Determine how to best gain alignment for change efforts through leader and stakeholder alignment
- Conduct change impact and stakeholder impact assessment sessions with business representatives, in order to articulate benefits and impacts of change
- Use diverse and compelling methods to communicate effectively to global partners
- Support development of the change management center of excellence, rolling out change methodology to project analysts and the business
- Support department initiatives around user-experience design and innovation
- Work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment that will support a change management framework utilized across many projects per year
You’ll need to have:
- 5-7 years of organizational change management experience in support of large-scale process and technology projects
- Experience in full lifecycle of change management for large-scale system implementations
- Experience across the areas of sponsorship, communications, change networks, training and organization readiness
- Functional experience in developing process change impact assessments and subsequent communications
- Experience in large and complex corporate environments running technology and process change efforts
- Strong communication and leadership skills
We’d love to see:
- Experience in full lifecycle of change management for large-scale ERP implementations (SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft)
- Leadership facilitation experience to drive senior-level alignment for change
- Experience with a full lifecycle of user-based innovation (applying design thinking or UX principles)
- Experience with global implementations
- Experience with Agile Product Development and Agile Change Management