Project Change Manager position available at NW Natural. The role involves driving adoption of new processes, tools, and cultural behaviors to improve business performance and unleash employees' potential. The successful candidate will have experience in change management consulting and be able to lead complex projects and build awareness of change management within the company.
Requirements
- Thorough knowledge of organizational change, employee transition, organizational design, and culture change theories, models, and techniques.
- Demonstrated ability to build trust with executives, management and team; overcome resistance in different settings and work cultures, influence stakeholders, and lead without formal authority.
- Experience and success authoring corporate and executive communications, with excellent grammar and persuasive writing skills and the ability to simplify complex concepts into accessible text.
- Solid project management skills; able to coordinate resources, establish schedules, track deliverables, and drive for results.
- Excellent quantitative and qualitative problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Thorough knowledge of training program design, adult learning theory, and state-of-the-art training techniques preferred.
- Utility industry experience preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in Organizational Development or Organizational Psychology or a related field, or equivalent education and experience. Master’s degree preferred.
- Certification in a change management approach such as PROSCI. Certification in a style assessment such as MBTI, Hogan, iOPT or similar is a plus.
- 8 plus years of progressive experience in change management consulting. Experience requires performing in a lead change role on mid-size or moderately complex initiatives or projects such as a technology implementation, process redesign, or restructuring and previous people management experience leading a team of professionals.
Benefits
- Rich health insurance benefits with competitive employer contribution
- Free access to an online wellness resources platform
- Up to 23 Vacation Days
- 80 Hours of Sick Time
- 10 paid holidays and 3 floating holidays
- Flexible work arrangements
- 3 weeks paid parental leave
- Meaningful annual incentive bonus opportunity in addition to base salary
- Competitive 401K company contribution and match
- 15% discount on NW Natural stock through Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Up to $5250 a year in tuition reimbursement
- Wellness incentive program
- Discounts on natural gas service
- Discounts at NW Natural Appliance Center
- TriMet Pass for all HQ employees
- Generous discounts with Verizon & AT&T Wireless
