Organizational Change Management

The OCM Assistant Manager position offers a highly motivated individual the opportunity to influence the success of IT projects around the globe. The OCM Assistant Manager is an individual contributor in Duracell’s global IT Change Management Office and will play a key role on a project team to ensure the initiative meets objectives on time and on budget by ensuring employee readiness and adoption.

This role will work through many others in the organization to succeed. The OCM Assistant Manager will interact with senior leaders in helping them fulfill their role of change sponsor. The change manager will also provide direct or indirect support to managers and supervisors as they help their targeted stakeholder groups through change transitions.

As an OCM Assistant Manager your essential duties and responsibilities include:

- Assess the change impact before, during and post project, identifying key stakeholders and conducting impact analyses.
- Identify and manage anticipated resistance
- Create actionable deliverables for change management levers as suited for the project
- Support communication efforts
- Support project sponsorship
- Identify, analyze and prepare risk mitigation tactics
- Integrate change management activities into a project plan
- Define and measure success metrics and monitor change progress
- Evaluate and ensure user readiness
- Track and report issues
- Support Hypercare/ post project close out via retrospectives and sharing lessons learned
- Consult and coach the project team
- Coach managers and supervisors
- Coordinate efforts with other change managers

Additional responsibilities may include:

- Support change management at the organizational level
- Act as a change agent to implement and manage best practices across the IT organization.

Skills and Experience
Required:

- Strong communication skills, both written and oral; excellent active listening skills
- Experience managing and completing projects efficiently and effectively in a high-paced, deadline-driven environment with mínimal direction
- Innovative, creative, curious mindset, and passion for learning about, experimenting with and recommending new approaches, platforms, and technologies
- Flexible in dealing with changing priorities and comfortable with ambiguity
- Experience handling sensitive situations and confidential information with discretion
- Business acumen with understanding of organizational issues and challenges
- Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships across a highly matrixed organizational structure of multi-disciplinary teams
- Works effectively at all levels in an organization, working collaboratively with and through others
- Ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal
- Resilient and tenacious with a propensity to persevere
- Forward-looking with a holistic, strategic approach
- Skilled with problem solving and root cause identification.

Preferred:

- Certification in organizational change management
- Experience in a consumer goods/manufacturing environment
- Management consulting experience, especially in the disciplines of change management or organizational effectiveness and transformation.

Work Location
This is a fully remote position based out of Duracell’s Barcelona office. Limited EU or international travel may be required.

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Duracell is the world’s leading manufacturer and marketer of high-performance alkaline batteries, complemented by a portfolio of high quality, market leading specialty, rechargeable and professional batteries. Duracell’s products power numerous critical professional devices across the globe such as heart rate monitors, defibrillators, telemetry devices, smoke detectors, fire alarms, automated valves and security systems. As the leader in the professional power category, Duracell has a rich history of innovation, continuously introducing batteries that are smaller, thinner, with more energy and longer lasting than competitive brands. Since March 2016, Duracell has found its permanent home within Berkshire Hathaway (ranked #4 World's Most Admired Companies by Fortune Magazine and #3 in the Fortune 500), and will continue to focus on sustainable growth, industry-leading innovation while creating long-term value for our customers and consumers. At Duracell, integrity, end-to-end accountability across all levels, fast decision-making and a “can do” attitude is highly valued.