Senior Manager, Organization Change Management

at  Stryker

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The OCM team within the Accelerate ERP program is responsible for leading the overall organization change management approach for deployment groups and key stakeholders. The change lead will collaborate with the business leaders to understand stakeholders and impacts, plan and deliver OCM plans for major deployments across the globe.

OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS THAT THE ROLE OFFERS

Being a Senior Manager of Organization Change Management can offer numerous benefits, both professionally and personally. Some of these benefits may include:

• Leadership Experience: This role often involves managing projects, working with higher level Stryker stakeholders that provides valuable leadership experience that can enhance your skills and prepare you for higher-level management roles.
• Technical Knowledge: Managing OCM for an ERP transformation program allows you to deepen your understanding of technology and processes and how they impact various stakeholders.
• Communication Skills: As the liaison between business teams and the program team and various stakeholders, you’ll develop stronger communication skills, both written and verbal, which are essential in any career path.
• Problem-Solving Abilities: Organization change management often involves troubleshooting and finding solutions to complex technical problems, honing your collaborative problem-solving abilities.
• Networking Opportunities: You’ll have the chance to interact with leaders and professionals across different geographical regions and functional areas, expanding your professional network.
• Job Satisfaction: Contributing to the effective adoption of the ERP transformation can be rewarding, especially when you see the positive impact on the organization’s operations and efficiency.
• Creativity: Developing engaging change strategies requires creativity in how we approach and engage impacted audiences. Each deployment requires a customized change strategy which requires creativity of thought.

Overall, being a Senior Manager of Organization Change Management can offer a dynamic and fulfilling career path with opportunities for growth, learning, and making a meaningful impact within the organization.

WHAT WILL YOU DO AT STRYKER?

Organization Change Management: work with deployment group teams to define and execute change plans to enable a successful transformation journey.
Stakeholder management: partner with business leaders to understand their unique people readiness challenges. Manage multiple stakeholder groups from executive sponsors, business leaders, deployment group team member, process owners and power users to ensure alignment and successful outcomes.
User engagement and adoption: facilitate the people side of process and technology changes to ensure end users are ready for go-live and adoption occurs.
Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually