Lead Enterprise Organizational Change Manager

This is a hybrid role based out of our HQ office near Portland, Oregon. The expectation is for employees to be in-office 3 days or more per week, depending on business need. This in-office expectation is subject to change at business discretion.

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ABOUT THE POSITION  

Columbia Sportswear Company’s Human Resources organization aims to advance company strategy and connect talented people with their passions through work and a life outside.  We need passionate people to create exceptional products, differentiated consumer experiences and to grow the business.   Our teams ensure the company’s success by focusing on attracting and retaining diverse talent, building organizational effectiveness, and supporting the mental, physical, social and financial wellbeing of all employees.  

​Can you help us drive the changes that will positively affect Columbia Sportswear Company, its employees, its customers, and its consumers? We’ll rely on your consultative and communication skills to support the business through critical transformational initiatives.  
  
As an Enterprise Organizational Change Management (OCM) Lead, you will play a key change management role on a variety of projects, supporting end-to-end change management efforts, as well as managing and evaluating adoption. You’ll apply your experience and skills, capturing and assimilating complex ideas and information in order to create clear and easy to understand messages for impacted business teams and end-users. You’ll use your relationship building, collaboration, and consultation abilities to further these messages and processes with stakeholders, leaders, process owners, and team members throughout change implementation and adoption.     

Your skills and experience in executive-level and strategic communications will lead our efforts in navigating organizational transformation and delivering clear, impactful messaging to senior stakeholders. This role requires a visionary thinker with exceptional interpersonal and leadership skills. In addition, you should have the ability to organize and present complex ideas and information clearly. You must be able to work effectively with executive and team leaders, project stakeholders and team members throughout the OCM process.  Additionally, this role will support maintenance of CSC’s enterprise organizational change management program, methodology, tools and templates as well as provide coaching and consulting to business partners on significant change initiatives at CSC.  

HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE 

• Execute on integrated change management, communications and training plans for the highest priority initiatives across the global organization​ 

• Develop and implement comprehensive change management strategies that align with organizational goals

• Collaborate with executive leadership to craft and deliver strategic communications that inspire, inform, and engage

• Identify and address communication challenges during periods of change, ensuring consistency and clarity, then measure and evaluate the effectiveness of change management and communication initiatives

• Support management and maintenance of enterprise OCM methodology, tools and templates; update as appropriate based on industry best practices and business feedback 

• Transition communications work to functional owners following implementation including strategy and documentation, process flows, timelines and plans, key success metrics, etc. 

• ​​Participate as part of the Change Management Community of Practice and other efforts to build change capability throughout the company​ , operating collaboratively with Enterprise Change Management program to ensure consistent use of tools and methodologies 

• Create change readiness materials for highly impacted individuals including communications, training, sponsor engagement, and sustainment activities 

  

YOU ARE  

• A natural problem solver, adept at applying creativity and logic to the design of simple solutions 

• Collaborative with a knack for building productive, cross functional partnerships 

• Curious, exercising a continuous improvement focus to the evolution of change capability  

• Adept at managing multiple priorities and evolving challenges

• Skilled in high-level communication with a broad understanding of how and when to use appropriate communication channels  

YOU HAVE  

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.   Applied experience may be considered in lieu of degree 

• 8 years' experience in change management and strategic communication, ideally within complex and dynamic environments

• Applied experience in the application of agile methodologies and design thinking

• Prosci or other change management practitioner certification - preferred 

• Demonstrated experience crafting strategic communications for leadership audiences

• Knowledge of continuous improvement and/or change management principles

• Global supply chain experience - preferred

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This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company. 

Columbia Sportswear is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. The Know Your Rights poster is available here: https://www.eeoc.gov/poster The pay transparency policy is available here: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OFCCP/pdf/pay-transp_ English_formattedESQA508c.pdf Columbia Sportswear is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please notify your recruiter.

At Columbia Sportswear Company, we’re proud to offer regular full-time employees a benefits package that includes a variety of services and products to help make your life and work more rewarding. Our benefit programs contribute to overall employee well-being by aligning those programs with the fundamental elements of well-being: physical, social/emotional, financial, career and community. Benefits that can protect your family’s financial future and help you save money through our 401k plan plus a generous company match. Columbia offers medical, dental, vision, life Insurance, disability, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, and an assortment of voluntary benefit offerings (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and legal services). In addition, Columbia offers EAP which is free and confidential 24/7/365 counseling services. We have extensive wellness benefits, employee discounts and a generous time off program available.

If you need an accommodation/adjustment to successfully complete and submit your application, please reach out to AskHR@columbia.com with the Subject: Applicant Assistance Requested.