Position Overview:The Senior Change Manager plays a key role in ensuring change initiatives, including complex, large0scale initiatives, are successful by leading the people side of change. These initiatives include impacts to business processes, systems, technology, roles, and organizational structures. This role has no direct supervisory responsibility but partners closely with project teams, senior leaders, and executive stakeholders to influence engagement, readiness, and sustained adoption across the organization. The Senior Change Manager applies a structured change management methodology to design and lead comprehensive change strategies, plans, and tools that drive alignment, accelerate adoption, and proactively address resistance.
By coaching executive sponsors and senior leaders, enabling managers to effectively lead their teams through change, integrating change activities into enterprise0level project plans, and assessing organizational readiness and risk, the Senior Change Manager ensures timely implementation, sustained usage, and proficiency with new ways of working. This role measures success through realized business value, ROI, and achievement of intended outcomes, ensuring change is embedded and maintained over time.
This role follows DigiKey's hybrid on-site schedule however project involvement and activities may occasionally result in more on site time being required.
Responsibilities:- Apply structured methodology and lead change management activities by creating change management strategies, processes and tools to support adoption of the changes required by a project or initiative.
- Support communication efforts through assisting in the design, development, delivery and management.
- Assess the change impact of the initiatives and projects by conducting impact analyses, assessing change readiness and identifying key stakeholders.
- Support training efforts by providing input, documenting requirements and supporting both the design and delivery of training programs.
- Create actionable deliverables using change management levers as applicable including communications plans, sponsor roadmaps, coaching plans, training plans and resistance management plans.
- Complete change management assessments, track and report issues.
- Identify, analyze and prepare risk mitigation tactics.
- Identify and manage anticipated resistance; evaluate and ensure user readiness.
- Consult and coach project leaders and teams.
- Support and engage senior leaders, coach managers and supervisors, coordinate efforts with other specialists and manage stakeholders.
- Support organizational design and definition of roles and responsibilities.
- Manage the change portfolio, define and measure success metrics and monitor change progress.
- Nothing in this job description restricts management0s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Human Resources Management and/or Organizational Development or equivalent experience
- 6 + years of experience leading change initiatives cross-functionally
- Strong understanding of the various functions of DigiKey, how they work together as well as the industry DigiKey operates in
- Knowledge of DigiKey brand and its principles
- Knowledge of learning theories
- Excellent at writing and editing copy
- Taking on additional responsibilities as directed
- Participates in administrative staff meetings and attends other cross-functional meetings
- May travel as needed or requested
Physical Requirements:- Generally, spend the workday sitting at a workstation and operating computer devices, such as, but not limited to keyboard, mouse and screen
- Generally, spend the workday performing repetitive motions that involve or affect the hands, head, and other parts of your body
- Occasional standing for presentations
Compensation:The base pay range for this position is:
$96,000
to
$135,000
Many factors influence the determination of base pay within a range, including the candidate0s work experience in related roles; the candidate0s knowledge, skills, capabilities, and performance; the relative pay of other DigiKey employees in similar roles; and the budget available for the position.
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