Manufacturing Transformation Change Lead (contract position)
Location(s)
Montreal, QC (Canada)Job Description
Do big challenges get you fired up? Are you convinced that effective change management can help us realize the intended benefits of our business transformation? If so, then we have the perfect mandate for you.We’re looking for an experienced change practitioner to join our transformation team and to lead the change management activities related to optimizing our manufacturing operations; a complex system of no less than nine highly interdependent projects, including the consolidation and modernization of our facilities, the adoption of cell manufacturing and other strategically important initiatives.
Specifically, over the next 24 months our plants will specialize, become product focused and set the stage to become world-class 4.0 facilities. This will involve, highly dependent activities such as; movement of machines, preparation of personnel and facilities, new roles, responsibilities, systems, processes and org structures. All within a context of cultural and regional differences, collective agreement negotiations, an aggressive timeline and a whole bunch of parallel changes that are happening at the same time within the context of our overall business transformation.
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As a member of our corporate transformation team you will play a critical part in supporting the execution of transformation initiatives related to the Plant Footprint Optimization program and ensuring benefits realization to help Velan achieve our strategic vision. You will need to influence and engage both leaders and employees in a unionized manufacturing environment. Your collaborative leadership and change management expertise will help our project managers achieve the intended business benefits by ensuring you put in place and execute effective and coordinated stakeholder management and communications plans.
We expect you to have experience in a project management setting, be fully autonomous but a great team player, an excellent communicator and an approachable coach.
Some of your key responsibilities will include:
- Develop and execute integrated stakeholder management and communications plans for the initiatives related to the Plant Footprint Optimization program
- Ensure PMO-level integration of all initiative stakeholder management and communications plans
- Help to provide coaching and support to initiative leads and sponsors in change/stakeholder management and communications
- As part of the corporate communications team, contribute to develop and coordinate communications content in both official languages
- Collaborate with the Organizational Development team to develop new or revised training and development needs within the projects and also suggest learning pathways that will raise the organization’s overall change management and communications competencies
- As part of the PMO, help influence/engage senior leadership on the importance of their leadership/sponsorship in an effective change process, assist in the development of frameworks, tools and processes that facilitate a systematic adoption of change management and communications best practices (including ADKAR) in day-to-day practice
We are looking for you to be proficient in the ProSci ADKAR framework, have a minimum of 5 years relevant experience in change/transformations and be fully bilingual (French and English). PMI PMP is a definite asset but not mandatory. In addition, experience leading change in a unionized and manufacturing setting is a must.
This mandate starts ASAP, will be based out of our Montreal Head Office but may require international travel. It is a minimum 12 months mandate and will likely extend to 24 months. We are looking for someone who will see this project through to completion.
