Senior Change Manager

Description:

At AustralianSuper, we truly care about our colleagues.​ We know work and life are intertwined. That’s why we support the diverse needs of everyone and have policies that enable us all to thrive and be truly flexible. We ensure diversity is celebrated for the opportunity it provides us all to learn and grow, and deliver better outcomes for members.

Your New Role

Reporting to the Group Change Lead - Enterprise, the Senior Change Manager is responsible for providing and delivering change management expertise in support of the Fund’s project portfolio.

You willplay a key role in facilitating and driving change transition, activities (ie change analysis, engagement, communications, learning, adoption tracking) for change initiatives ensuring that projects realise their expected benefits, whilst ensuring that project delivery is aligned with, and reinforces, the Fund’s culture and values. In addition, you will act as a coach for senior leaders in helping them fulfil the role of change sponsor and will also support project teams in integrating change management activities into their project plans.

This role is expected to develop and manage a complex program of work, with multi stream change plans and is accountable for planning, development and delivery of program change plan. This will include allocating and managing change resources across the various initiatives.

This position is a 2 year max term contract.

Some of your duties will include, but not limited to:

· Apply a structured change management approach and methodology to manage the staff impacts and other impacts caused by projects and change efforts

· Develop a robust and actionable change management strategy, based on situational awareness of the details of the change and the stakeholders being impacted by the change

· Contribute to documentation and implementation of business processes to support change

· Identify potential staff and other stakeholder risks and anticipated points of resistance, and develop specific plans to mitigate or address the concerns

· Conduct readiness assessments, evaluate results and present findings in a logical and easy-to understand manner

· Develop a set of actionable and targeted change management plans – ie communication plan, learning plans.

What You’ll Need

· Deep knowledge of change management principles and methodologies

· Significant change management experience including program (multi concurrent stream) change management

· A deep understanding of how people go through a change and the change process

· Previous experience leading and allocating change resources across various projects and overseeing the quality of their outputs.

· Familiarity with project management approaches, tools and phases of the project lifecycle

· Experience with business transformation, process re-engineering and/or system implementations

· Exceptional communication skills – both written and verbal

· Able to work effectively at all levels in an organisation

· Excellent active listening skills

· Problem solving skills

Life at AustralianSuper

AustralianSuper is committed to colleague development, and we support our people with ongoing learning, coaching and training, as well as career opportunities across our expanding global organisation. We offer generous leave entitlements and promote a blended working environment in which all roles can flex, and we’re happy to discuss what this looks like for you.

We cultivate a workplace that champions safety, respect, inclusiveness and diversity. We are committed to supporting our diverse workforce in a way that is inclusive and embraces diversity in all its forms. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process or the role, please let our recruitment team know.

What’s Next

Apply now, if you share our values of Energy, Integrity, Generosity of Spirit and Excellent Outcomes and would like the opportunity to work in a challenging, growing and rapidly evolving team to deliver outstanding results.

Australian or New Zealand citizenship or Australian permanent residency status is required.

Agencies please note: this vacancy is being managed directly by AustralianSuper’s Talent Acquisition team. We will contact our preferred agency partners should we require additional support. Thank you.