About the Role
This role provides end-to-end oversight of change management for a large-scale, multi-year commercial systems transformation program. The program modernizes how commercial work is done through platform enablement, process simplification, AI-driven delivery, and legacy system retirement. This is an integrator role that brings together change readiness across various personas, business segments, and workstreams into a cohesive strategy, in partnership with a cross-functional team.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement comprehensive change management strategies and plans for large-scale transformation initiatives, including stakeholder analysis, communication plans, training programs, and resistance management.
- Define and track adoption metrics and KPIs to measure change effectiveness and demonstrate business value.
- Define reusable templates for business segments (change impact assessment, change readiness assessment, change strategy, change management plan).
- Build a holistic change management approach that connects existing segment-level efforts.
- Continuously improve change management methodology and tools based on lessons learned.
- Lead and mentor a team of change management professionals.
- Act as a thought leader in change management, providing strategic guidance and innovative solutions.
- Oversee change management dependencies, risks, and issues across business segments and program workstreams.
- Maintain a consolidated view of change management milestones across all workstreams.
- Establish governance structures and a reporting cadence for change readiness and risk.
- Monitor overall change readiness across the program and escalate material gaps to leadership.
- Provide input into launch decisions based on consolidated change readiness.
- Collaborate closely with senior leadership, program/project managers, and stakeholders to integrate change management activities.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders across all levels of the organization.
- Define and stand up a cross-functional change management stakeholder network.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Organizational Development, or a related field.
- 10+ years of progressive experience leading change management for large-scale business or technology transformation programs, including at least 5 years in a leadership role.
- Experience developing and executing change strategies for simultaneous, interdependent programs in a matrixed global organization.
- Exceptional people leadership skills, with a track record of building and developing high-performing teams.
- Superior stakeholder management and executive communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively from frontline level to senior business leadership.
- Proven ability to establish adoption metrics and demonstrate business value from change management investment.
- Recognized thought leadership in change management and organizational development.
- Advanced degree (MBA or related field) is preferred.
- Prosci, CCMP, PMP, or equivalent certification is preferred.
- Experience supporting ERP migrations, commercial systems consolidation, or CRM/ERP platform implementations (e.g., Salesforce, SAP) is preferred.
Skills
- Change Management
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Communication Planning
- Training Programs
- Resistance Management
- Adoption Metrics
- KPI Tracking
- Change Impact Assessment
- Change Readiness Assessment
- Change Strategy Development
- Change Management Planning
- Team Leadership
- Mentoring
- Thought Leadership
- Risk Management
- Issue Management
- Governance Structures
- Reporting
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Collaboration
- Executive Communication
- Influencing
- ERP Migrations
- Commercial Systems Consolidation
- CRM/ERP Platform Implementation
Location
- US Locations (for salary range)
Work Type
- Hybrid Work Model (2-3 days a week in the office)
- Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
Experience Level
- Director
- 10+ years of progressive experience
- 5+ years in a leadership role
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Organizational Development, or a related field
- Advanced degree (MBA or related field) preferred
Salary/Compensations
- For eligible US locations: $137,200 USD - $254,800 USD
- For Ontario, Canada: $155,000 CAD - $205,000 CAD
Benefits
- Flexible vacation
- Two company-wide Mental Health Days off
- Access to the Headspace app
- Retirement savings
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee incentive programs
- Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
- Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs
- Competitive 401k plan with company match
- Competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Parental leave
- Sabbatical leave
- Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance
- Optional life and AD&D insurance
- Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
- Fitness reimbursement
- Access to Employee Assistance Program
- Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit
- Access to 529 Plan
- Commuter benefits
- Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
About the Company
- Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together trusted content and technology for decision-making.
- Serves professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media.
- Products combine specialized software and insights to empower professionals with data, intelligence, and solutions.
- Reuters is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
- Powered by 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries.
- Committed to objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency.
- Helps customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency.
- Upholds the rule of law, turns the wheels of commerce, catches bad actors, reports facts, and provides trusted, unbiased information.
Equal Opportunity
- As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals.
- We seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law.
- Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
- Thomson Reuters makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities, including veterans with disabilities, and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
- Disability accommodations in the recruiting process may include things like a sign language interpreter, making interview rooms accessible, providing assistive technology, or other relevant accommodations.
