Organizational Change Management Readiness Lead

We are seeking experienced Organizational Change Management Readiness Leads to support a large-scale ERP transformation for a complex public-sector organization.

The OCM Readiness Lead will work with business departments, project leaders and functional teams to assess organizational impacts, prepare stakeholders for new processes and systems, and support adoption through implementation and go-live.

This position is primarily remote, with limited travel to the Philadelphia area. Candidates located in Pennsylvania, New Jersey or Delaware are strongly preferred.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute organizational change-management and business-readiness strategies.
• Conduct stakeholder interviews, readiness assessments and change-impact analyses.
• Identify how changes to technology, processes, policies and job responsibilities will affect employees and departments.
• Develop targeted readiness plans for different stakeholder and user groups.
• Create communication strategies, presentations, leadership messages and employee-facing content.
• Facilitate meetings, workshops, focus groups and readiness-review sessions.
• Partner with functional, technical, training and communications teams.
• Support training-needs analysis, role mapping and end-user adoption planning.
• Establish and support change-agent or change-champion networks.
• Identify adoption risks, resistance and readiness gaps and recommend mitigation actions.
• Develop status reports, readiness metrics, dashboards and executive presentations.
• Assign and coordinate activities across OCM team members and departmental stakeholders.
• Support go-live preparation, transition activities and post-deployment stabilization.
• Maintain clear documentation of readiness activities, decisions, issues and action items.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading organizational change management for large technology or business-transformation programs.
• Hands-on experience developing change strategies, impact assessments, stakeholder analyses, readiness assessments, communications and training plans.
• Experience supporting a full implementation lifecycle through deployment and stabilization.
• Strong facilitation, interviewing, presentation and written-communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work with executives, department leaders, managers, project teams and end users.
• Experience coordinating or overseeing OCM team members and assigned activities.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and documentation skills.
• Ability to manage confidential or sensitive organizational information.
• Availability to begin the engagement in October 2026.
• Ability to travel occasionally to the Philadelphia area.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prosci, CCMP or comparable organizational change-management certification.
• Experience supporting Workday, Oracle Cloud, SAP S/4HANA or another enterprise SaaS ERP implementation.
• Experience with ERP Financials, Procurement or Supply Chain transformation.
• State or local government, healthcare, higher-education or other public-sector experience.
• Experience supporting a large, decentralized or multi-department organization.
• Current PMP certification.