NRG Energy

Manager, Change Management

NRG Energy$90K — $120K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in change management or related field
  • PROSCI certification is essential
  • Strong understanding of project management methodologies
  • Proven ability to lead and coach teams
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
  • Experience in developing change management tools and practices
  • Knowledge of OCM principles and best practices

Responsibilities

  • Own and enhance the Canada PMO Change Management practice using PROSCI methodology.
  • Develop and maintain change playbooks, tools, and templates for various projects.
  • Establish engagement models and criteria for OCM across the Canada portfolio.
  • Coach project leaders on appropriate change tactics based on project specifics.
  • Lead hands-on change initiatives for high-impact projects in Canada.
  • Conduct change impact and readiness assessments for effective planning.
  • Align training and communication strategies to support a unified change experience.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead the OCM practice across Canada
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams including Project Managers and Training staff
  • Engagement with senior leaders and stakeholders to influence change
  • Focus on building organizational readiness and employee experience
  • Professional development through coaching and capability building sessions
Full Job Description
Role Purpose

The Manager, Change Management is accountable for enabling successful adoption of change across all Canada PMO-supported initiatives by embedding consistent, scalable PROSCI-based Organizational Change Management (OCM) practices.

This role partners closely with Project Managers, Product Owners, Business Leads, and the Training team to ensure a full end-to-end change lifecycle is delivered-spanning impact assessment, leadership readiness, communications, training enablement, adoption, and sustainment.

The incumbent will act as the OCM practice lead for Canada, ensuring change approaches are integrated into project delivery while improving organizational readiness, employee experience, and realized business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

1. OCM Strategy & Practice Leadership

  • Own and evolve the Canada PMO Change Management practice, grounded in PROSCI methodology and aligned to enterprise standards.

  • Define and maintain change playbooks, tools, templates, and standards that scale across project size and complexity.

  • Establish clear OCM engagement models, intake criteria, and sizing approaches across the Canada portfolio.

  • Coach and guide delivery leaders on applying appropriate change tactics based on project risk, complexity, and impact.


2. Portfolio & Project Support

  • Provide hands-on change leadership for priority and high-impact Canada initiatives.

  • Conduct and oversee:

  • Change impact assessments

  • Stakeholder and readiness assessments

  • Sponsor and leadership alignment activities

  • Resistance management plans

  • Integrate OCM activities into project and agile delivery plans, ensuring change is not treated as an afterthought.

  • Ensure change activities are outcome-focused and aligned to project success metrics.


3. Training & Enablement Partnership

  • Partner closely with Training and Enablement teams to deliver a cohesive people change experience.

  • Ensure learning strategies are informed by:

  • Role impacts

  • Change readiness levels

  • Timing of adoption milestones

  • Align communications, training, and reinforcement activities into a single, integrated change approach.

  • Support readiness for go-live, stabilization, and sustainment beyond implementation.


4. Leadership, Coaching & Capability Building

  • Act as a trusted advisor to Sponsors, Senior Leaders, and People Leaders on leading change effectively.

  • Enable leaders to fulfill their PROSCI sponsor responsibilities through targeted coaching and tools.

  • Build change capability across the Canada PMO and business teams through:

  • Awareness sessions

  • Embedded coaching

  • Practical, project-based learning


DEML employs individuals in the Provinces of Alberta, Ontario, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan. We regret that we will be unable to hire you for this role if your regular remote work location is not within one of these listed provinces. Please reach out to [redacted] if you have any questions.

About NRG Energy

NRG is at the forefront of changing how people think about and use energy. Whether as the largest solar power developer in the country or by giving customers the latest tools to better manage their energy use, NRG is a pioneer in developing smarter energy choices. Our diverse power generating facilities have a capacity of about 52,000 megawatts, capable of supporting almost 42 million homes. Our retail electricity providers — Reliant and Energy Plus — and thermal energy division serve nearly 3 million residential, business, commercial and industrial customers. A Fortune 250 company, NRG supports clean energy resources and technologies critical to our transition to a sustainable, low carbon society. We built the nation's first privately-funded electric vehicle charging infrastructure and continue to create new, clean energy solutions for our customers. In addition to our environmental efforts, we actively contribute to the local communities where NRG employees live and work. Since 2004, our Global Giving program has provided millions of dollars to organizations and charities that have a direct impact on the lives of the people in our communities, including food banks and those that foster self-sufficiency, improve housing and provide supplemental education to people in need. NRG has also organized special responses for victims of extreme catastrophe, such as the Haitian earthquake and the Japanese tsunami in 2010. Employee donations were tripled to maximize the contributions. NRG has won numerous awards for industry leadership and many of its nationwide econrg initiatives, which are targeted toward meeting the challenges of climate change, clean air and natural resources protection.

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Size
6,635 employees
Market Cap
$7.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$510 million
Founded
1989
5 Year Trend
+24.8%
Revenue
$9 billion
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