Change Management Specialist - Contract - job 1 of 2

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting, and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

We’re looking for a Contract Learning & Talent Development Manager to join our internal digital business transformation team. Within this team, you will be aligned with the change management team. In this role, you will partner with all areas of our business to collaborate on, facilitate and manage organizational change, with a lens toward supporting our training development.

The internal digital business transformation team is taking on the high priority, high visibility work of growing and transforming Publicis Sapient into the future, from business process and systems redesign to application implementations.

Your Impact:

Within this role, you need to have training facilitation and learning design background. The ideal candidate possesses strong communication skills, written and verbal—additionally, the ability to manage multiple projects and be a self-starter.

• Collaborate across multiple functional areas to; create training content and strategic communication deliverables, and deliver high-impact projects
• Communicate clearly and concisely while delivering presentations and written communications to stakeholder audiences and program teams
• Manage projects with proficiency in cases of incomplete information; bring structure where there is ambiguity.
• Anticipate and resolve stakeholder resistance and other risks to reach desired outcomes
• Develop trusted partnerships by listening to unspoken concerns and seeking to understand business goals and the environment as a whole
• Ensure knowledge is documented and successfully transferred to product owners as part of project completion
• Cultivate new skillsets based on your own professional development goals

• Ability to develop strategic communication deliverables, facilitate and develop training sessions (content to coordination)
• Experience managing and engaging a wide variety of stakeholders (leadership to individual contributors)
• Familiarity or project experience with organizational/behavioral design/effectiveness and/or learning & development concepts
• Familiarity with common project and change management methodologies, such as waterfall, agile, and ADKAR or Kotter
• Analytical and critical thinking skills
• Experience working in a matrixed work environment
• Strong presentation, communication, and facilitation skills
• Natural curiosity, creativity, and humility
• Demonstrated proactiveness and perseverance in complex environments

Pay Range: $90,000 - $175,000

The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges currently in use at Publicis Sapient. Actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work itself.

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at hiring@publicissapient.com or you may call us at +1-617-621-0200.