Team Leader, Change Management

Role Overview

Team Leader, Change Management at ADNOC. Lead and execute change management activities for strategic transformation programs and organizational initiatives. Ensure that employees, leaders, and stakeholders are prepared, engaged, and equipped to successfully adopt new processes, systems, ways of working, and organizational changes.

Role Purpose

Manage resistance to change across diverse stakeholder groups, align multiple business units around a common transformation agenda, balance change activities across several concurrent initiatives, sustain adoption and behavioral change after project go-live, and communicate effectively in complex and evolving environments.

Key Responsibilities

Stakeholder Engagement & Resistance Management

• Manage resistance to change across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Build trust and credibility with senior leaders and employees.
• Align multiple business units around a common transformation agenda.
• Establish relationships with key stakeholders and transformation teams.
• Conduct change impact and stakeholder assessments for assigned initiatives.

Change Planning & Execution

• Develop and execute comprehensive change management plans.
• Balance change activities across several concurrent initiatives.
• Implement communication and engagement activities aligned with project milestones.
• Lead enterprise-wide change interventions for major transformation programs.

Monitoring & Governance

• Establish change KPIs, adoption metrics, and reporting mechanisms.
• Monitor adoption, readiness, and business outcomes using data-driven approaches.
• Demonstrate measurable adoption and readiness improvements across supported initiatives.
• Contribute to benefits realization by ensuring sustainable behavioral and process adoption.

Organizational Capability

• Build a structured change champion network.
• Improve organizational change capability through toolkits, training, and governance.
• Establish consistent change management standards and best practices across the portfolio.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor Degree with at least 10 years relevant experience.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
• Effective communication and change storytelling.
• Structured application of change management methodologies, such as ADKAR.
• Data-driven monitoring and analysis capabilities.

Additional Information

• Expected to establish relationships and conduct assessments within the first 6 months.
• Expected to demonstrate measurable improvements and lead enterprise-wide interventions within 12 months.