Change people's lives and love what you do! Cochlear is the most recognized brand in hearing health care.

Change Management Lead

Position Spotlight:

• Long-term contract opportunity (18 months+)
• Experience delivering large-scale change initiatives across a global organization
• This role will be responsible for adapting the overarching Program Change Management Strategy to suit local and regional requirements. Change people's lives and love what you do! Cochlear is the most recognized brand in hearing health care.

About the role

Cochlear is helping people hear, and be heard, all over the world. Come be a part of our amazing mission! If you have delivered large scale, global transformational change initiatives before, this is a fantastic opportunity to join a global leader in the hearing implant industry.

The Program you will be working on will drive the transformation of our global and regional ways of working and business processes, enabled by new SAP cloud technology. This role will be based in our Americas head office in Lone Tree, CO. This is not a remote opportunity, however, our hybrid policy is in-office 2 days per week or more if required for meetings.

Your success in this role will be measured by your ability to successfully adapt and drive the adoption of the Program Change Management Strategy, and tailored Change Plan, within the CAM region (Cochlear Americas). You will work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, including the VP Change Management and Change team located in Australia, the CAM Enablement team, global transformation teams, regional Change Champions, and other global leaders to successfully support and embed people, process, and technology changes.

Key Responsibilities

• Change Management: Conduct regional and local stakeholder analysis and manage associated stakeholder engagement/involvement to ensure that program objectives are aligned. Conduct regional and local change impact assessments. Develop and implement regional and local communications and engagement plans to disseminate information on the change to stakeholders throughout the project life cycle.

• Organizational Context: Maintain up to date knowledge on Cochlear's strategic priorities and possible impacts on change management. Participate in local and regional organisational discussions relating to the project and assess related change impacts.

• Project Management: Establish and manage delivery of change effort against local and/or regional change plan (aligned to global change strategy). Report on the progress of local and regional change management activities against timeframes, milestones, and budget.

Key Requirements

To add value to Cochlear in this role you'll be able to meet and demonstrate the following knowledge, skills and abilities in your application and at interview:

• Degree qualified in an organizational change related study or other relevant study, with relevant project-related experience.
• Experience in delivering large-scale change initiatives across global organisations, in a highly regulated industry, specialising in end-to-end Strategic Planning and/or Finance and/or Supply Chain Management processes.
• Experience in process, systems and behavioural change implementations and the impact of these on the organization.
• Working knowledge of best practice change and communications approaches and demonstrated success of their implementation.
• Strong communication skills, comfortable presenting and facilitating.

Total Rewards

In addition to the opportunity to develop your knowledge and grow professionally, we offer competitive wages and benefits.

• Pay Range in the United States: $160,000 - $185,000 based upon experience. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and locati
• This role is a contract opportunity (non-benefit eligible).

Who are we?

Human needs have always been our inspir tion, ever since Professor Graeme Clark set out to create the first multi-channel cochlear implant because he saw his father struggle with hearing loss. We always start with people in mind - thinking about their needs.

For this reason, our products, services and support will continue to evolve and improve. We are by our customers' side through the entire hearing journey, so they can experience a life full of hearing. Our employees tell us that the number one reason they enjoy working for Cochlear is the opportunity to make a difference to people's lives and working in an organization where they can be part of bringing the mission to life each day.

Physical & Mental Demands

The physical and mental demands described below are representative of those