What are the responsibilities and job description for the Change Consultant position at Holmes Murphy?
Job Description
We are looking to add a Change Consultant to join our Strategy team in Waukee, IA. This role will lead and manage change initiatives across the organization, ensuring successful adoption and implementation of organizational changes. Offering a forward-thinking, innovative, and vibrant company culture, along with the opportunity to share your unique potential, there really is no place like Holmes!
Essential Responsibilities
In addition to being great at what you do, we place a high emphasis on building a best-in-class culture. We do this through empowering employees to build trust through honest and caring actions, ensuring clear and constructive communication, establishing meaningful client relationships that support their unique potential, and contributing to the organization's success by effectively influencing and uplifting team members.
Benefits: In addition to core benefits like health, dental and vision, also enjoy benefits such as:
We are looking to add a Change Consultant to join our Strategy team in Waukee, IA. This role will lead and manage change initiatives across the organization, ensuring successful adoption and implementation of organizational changes. Offering a forward-thinking, innovative, and vibrant company culture, along with the opportunity to share your unique potential, there really is no place like Holmes!
Essential Responsibilities
- Organize, facilitate, and lead medium to large-scale change initiatives, collaborating with multiple departments and stakeholders.
- Apply change methodologies to drive adoption and usage of changes.
- Assess the impact of change and conduct readiness evaluations to inform tailored change strategies.
- Create aligned, actionable deliverables for change management, including communications plans, sponsor roadmaps and training plans.
- Identify project stakeholders and develop communication plans for updates, meetings, and reports to ensure engagement and alignment.
- Proactively identify and mitigate risks, addressing potential resistance to change.
- Partner with project managers, and communication, training, operations, process and strategy teams to integrate change management activities into project plans.
- Monitor and report on change management progress, benefits realization and outcomes for each initiative.
- Education & Experience: Bachelor’s degree or related experience in Organizational Development, Business, or a related field required. Change management certification preferred. Minimum of 5 years of experience in change and/or project management, with demonstrated success in implementing organizational changes. Experience with strategy and process improvement is a plus.
- Skills: Strong understanding of change management principles, methodologies, and tools. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to articulate messages to diverse audiences.
- Technical Competencies: Understand and leverage the interconnectedness within systems (Systems Thinking), preparing organizations for future success through informed decision-making (Strategic Mindset), and guiding teams effectively to achieve impactful outcomes (Facilitation/Facilitative Leadership). These skills collectively enable individuals to view the big picture, make strategic choices, and lead collaboratively for broader organizational success.
In addition to being great at what you do, we place a high emphasis on building a best-in-class culture. We do this through empowering employees to build trust through honest and caring actions, ensuring clear and constructive communication, establishing meaningful client relationships that support their unique potential, and contributing to the organization's success by effectively influencing and uplifting team members.
Benefits: In addition to core benefits like health, dental and vision, also enjoy benefits such as:
- Paid Parental Leave and supportive New Parent Benefits — We know being a working parent is hard, and we want to support our employees in this journey!
- Company paid continuing Education & Tuition Reimbursement — We support those who want to develop and grow.
- 401k Profit Sharing — Each year, Holmes Murphy makes a lump sum contribution to every full-time employee’s 401k. This means, even if you’re not in a position to set money aside for the future at any point in time, Holmes Murphy will do it on your behalf! We are forward-thinking and want to be sure your future is cared for.
- Generous time off practices in addition to paid holidays — Yes, we actually encourage employees to use their time off, and they do. After all, you can’t be at your best for our clients if you’re not at your best for yourself first.
- Supportive of community efforts with paid Volunteer time off and employee matching gifts to charities that are important to you — Through our Holmes Murphy Foundation, we offer several vehicles where you can make an impact and care for those around you.
- DE&I programs — Holmes Murphy is committed to celebrating every employee’s unique diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) experience with us. Not only do we offer all employees a paid Diversity Day time off option, but we also have a Chief Diversity Officer on hand, as well as a DE&I project team, committee, and interest group. You will have the opportunity to take part in those if you wish!
- Consistent merit increase and promotion opportunities — Annually, employees are reviewed for merit increases and promotion opportunities because we believe growth is important — not only with your financial wellbeing, but also your career wellbeing.
- Discretionary bonus opportunity — Yes, there is an annual opportunity to make more money. Who doesn’t love that?!
