OCM Lead

Harvey Nash is looking for an OCM Lead for a 18 month project in Switzerland.

This is a key project role that will require outstanding leadership skills and experience with change management, training strategies, deployment strategies, employee engagement, and large scale global user adoption of new technology.

You are responsible for

- Reporting to the global project manager, partner with the clients' change management and user adoption lead to oversee all aspects of organizational change management (OCM) for the project.
- Globally leading strategic and tactical change management, training management, employee engagement, communications and user adoption activities for the project.
- Providing strategic vision for change management
- Providing leadership and oversight to OCM coordinators, training managers, instructional designers, SMEs, change champions, etc. to form an appropriate and cohesive OCM organisation for the project.
- Identifying change management and user adoption related business issues/risks and recommend options and plans to remediate.
- Overseeing implementation and adoption of OCM guidelines and standards across multiple work streams within the project.
- Designing and managing global communication plans and activities (eg online and social media channels, newsletters, key stakeholder presentations, etc.).
- Creating/managing project level surveys/metrics/KPIs to roll-up and report on change management and user adoption related activities and success.
- Ensuring OCM activities are aligned with the project timeline and key milestones, and are integrated with other workstreams as required.
- Managing overall OCM work plan and conduct weekly status reporting meetings.
- Managing and facilitating OCM workshops to ensure a strong understanding of change management principles and user adoption techniques to be deployed during the project.
- Building out and managing a global change agent/champion network

Requirements

- Bachelor's or Advanced degree in related specialization area.
- Proven experience in a consulting and/or client-facing environment.
- Minimum of six to eight years of experience leading and mentoring project teams on relevant engagements.
- Strong problem solving skills with the ability to exercise mature judgement.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a demonstrated ability to interact across multiple levels of the organization.
- Demonstrated capabilities in teamwork and leadership on large global change efforts.
- Familiarity with project management approaches, tools and phases of the project life cycle.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent English language skills.
- Ability to work across multiple international time zones -- late afternoon/early evening work required in the EU.
- Ability to travel internationally both within and outside of the EU when required.
- Experience with IT Service Management Solutions such as ServiceNow is preferred.
- Experience in a pharmaceutical environment is preferred

Are you available immediately, have experience working within a Life Science company? Please send your complete CV (Word documents preferred) to (see below) For further details feel free to call me. I am looking forward to receiving your application.