Senior Change Manager Position

Location: Brussels

Languages: Dutch/French + English

Start Date: ASAP

End Date: 30/09/2026

Deadline: 27/05/2026

Responsibilities:

• Define and drive change strategy and adoption from end-to-end.
  • Translate transformation priorities into actionable change strategies and roadmaps.
  • Define the change journey by audience segment, linking business outcomes to behavioral adoption outcomes.
  • Establish measurable adoption KPIs and track benefits realization.
• Enable leadership and sponsorship.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders to strengthen active and visible sponsorship.
  • Equip leaders with messaging, narratives, stakeholder maps, and coaching to lead change with clarity and consistency.
  • Proactively challenge and influence to maintain alignment, prioritization, and decision velocity across stakeholders.
• Design and deliver integrated change interventions.
  • Build and deploy integrated plans across stakeholder engagement, communications, learning/capability building, and culture/behavior reinforcement.
  • Ensure interventions are scalable, data-driven, and aligned to enterprise standards and governance.
  • Plan and coordinate change calendars to reduce change saturation and improve sequencing across initiatives.
• Stakeholder management and resistance/risk handling.
  • Navigate complex stakeholder environments across functions, countries, and levels; build coalitions and engagement networks.
  • Anticipate resistance and adoption risks early; develop mitigation strategies and reinforcement mechanisms.
  • Partner with P&O/HR, business leads, project teams, and communications to ensure consistent execution.
• Build change capability and evolve the practice.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement of the organization’s change methodology, templates, and playbooks.
  • Coach project teams and HR partners to embed change excellence as a core capability and increase change maturity.
  • Capture insights and outcomes across initiatives and share best practices to raise overall effectiveness.

Technical Profile Requirements:

• 7+ years proven experience as a Change Manager in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Demonstrated experience with large-scale organizational transformation, adoption measurement, and benefits realization.
• Strong knowledge of change management principles, tools, and metrics; able to design governance-grade change strategies and plans.
• Solid understanding of project/program delivery ways of working; ability to integrate change work into delivery plans.
• Familiarity with Agile and Lean environments.
• Experience working across geographies and cultures; comfortable in enterprise stakeholder landscapes.

Non-Technical Profile Requirements:

• Excellent communication, facilitation, and influencing skills; able to build trust with senior stakeholders and teams.
• High autonomy and ownership; structured problem-solving and strong analytical capability.
• Strong coaching capability for leaders and people managers; confident in constructive challenge.
• Collaboration mindset; role-models accountability and consistency, aligned with values.
• Comfortable managing ambiguity, complexity, and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Methodology/Certification Requirements:

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Business, HR, Psychology, Communications, IT, Engineering, or related field (Master’s is a plus).
• Certification in Change Management (e.g., Prosci, CCMP) strongly preferred.
• Practical experience strengthening sponsorship effectiveness is essential.

Language Proficiencies:

• Fluent English (spoken and written).
• Additional languages are an advantage depending on stakeholder geography (e.g., Dutch/French/German).

Contract:

• Remote contractors are accepted.
• If local contractor, 3 days/week onsite presence required.