Change Management Expert
Saipem is a global leader in the engineering and construction of major projects for the energy and infrastructure sectors, both offshore and onshore. Saipem is “One Company” organized into five business lines - Asset Based Services, Energy Carriers, Offshore Wind, Sustainable Infrastructures, Robotics & Industrialized Solutions. The company has 8 fabrication yards and an offshore fleet of 29 construction vessels (of which 26 owned and 3 owned by third parties and managed by Saipem) and 15 drilling rigs, of which 8 owned. Always oriented towards technological innovation, the company’s purpose is “Engineering for a sustainable future”. As such Saipem is committed to supporting its clients on the energy transition pathway towards Net Zero, with increasingly digital means, technologies and processes geared for environmental sustainability. Listed on the Milan Stock Exchange, it is present in more than 50 countries around the world and employs about 30,000 people of over 120 nationalities.
Always committed to promoting and supporting the values of diversity and inclusion, Saipem confirms its commitment to valuing differences as a source of mutual enrichment. To this end, it promotes and encourages conditions that allow the removal of every obstacle that limits the full expression of people and their complete development within the organization. It protects and guarantees work conditions that respect individual dignity, while promoting a collaborative, harmonious, fair and supportive work environment.
The Change Management Expert will play a key role in ensuring change and adoption projects meet objectives on time and on budget by increasing employee adoption and usage. This person will focus on the people side of change, including changes to business processes, systems and technology.
Your challenges and responsibilities:
- Apply a structured methodology and lead change management activities, following change management standards and best practices,
- Apply a change management process and tools to create a strategy to support adoption of the changes required by a project or initiative,
- Integrate change management activities into project plan,
- Support the design, development, delivery and management of communications,
- Conduct impact analyses, Identify and manage anticipated resistance, complete change management assessments, assess change readiness and identify key stakeholders,
- Provide input, document requirements and support the design and delivery of training programs,
- Identify, analyze and prepare risk mitigation tactics,
- Create actionable deliverables for the five change management levers: communications plan, sponsor roadmap, coaching plan, training plan, resistance management plan,
- Consult and coach project teams,
- Manage stakeholders,
- Support and engage senior leaders,
- Coach managers and supervisors,
- Support organizational design and definition of roles and responsibilities,
- Define and measure success metrics and monitor change progress.
Skills and qualifications:
- Master's degree in STEM or Business Administration; Other degrees such as Organizational Psychology, or related field and International relationships will be also considered;
- You need to have minimum 5 years of experience in a similar role and a strong background in organizational change management,
- You need to have excellent communication skills and be proficient in English (minimum B2 level)
- Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal,
- Excellent active listening skills,
- Ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences,
- Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships,
- Ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal,
- Flexible and adaptable, able to work in ambiguous situations;
- Resilient and tenacious with a propensity to persevere,
- Forward looking with a holistic approach,
- Organized with a natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics,
- Problem solving and root cause identification skills,
- Must be a team player and able to work collaboratively with and through others,
- Acute business acumen and understanding of organizational issues and challenges,
- You have to be curious and passionate about Technology-Human link;
- Proven track record of successfully leading change management and adoption programs from conception to completion within digital transformation, within large-scale organizational change efforts,
- A solid understanding of how people go through a change and the change process,
- Experience and knowledge of change management principles, methodologies and tools,
- You need to be proficient in project management and agile project management methodologies, certification is a plus,
- Change management certification is a plus.
- Experience in one or more of the following technologies is a plus: SAP, S/4 HANA, Salesforce, Oracle, Service Now, CoPilot/gen AI Tools.