Change Management Business Partner

Imagine your career taking you to the depths of innovation and the heights of impact.  Our people enable continuous progress. Their commitment, collective expertise, and unique capabilities are the engine room behind SBM Offshore’s True. Blue. Transition. - shaping the future of energy, and beyond.

About Us:
SBM Offshore is the world’s deepwater ocean-infrastructure expert. Our work is already resulting in cleaner, more efficient energy production. True. Blue. Transition. is our promise to enable that into the future while at the same time using our expertise to support new and existing markets in the blue economy. It starts with Advancing our Core: continuing to advance the decarbonization of traditional energy production. While Pioneering More: helping to enable the energy transition and using our unique capabilities in ocean infrastructure to support more industries to grow sustainably.  Sharing our experience for a better blue tomorrow.

JOB DESCRIPTION

People are at the heart of any change initiative and success depends on user acceptance and adoption.  With an understanding of SBM people, meaningful professional experience, and a keen interest in change management, you will contribute to the Group’s transformation programs, transcending points of resistance and supporting the delivery of desired business outcomes. You will have a global view of activities across the business and serve as a subject matter expert on the Prosci methodology and ADKAR model applied to the program teams, interfacing with colleagues at all levels and locations of the organization.

Main missions:

• You play a key role in ensuring transformation programs and change initiatives succeed: create change management strategies and plans using the structured Prosci methodology to meet objectives on time and on budget.

• You focus on the people side of change: pay careful attention to changes in business processes, systems and technology, job roles and organization structures and anticipate impacts on the identified stakeholder groups; assess change impact and ADKAR progress.

• You know our audiences & understand how to reach them: articulate the way in which changes will affect the users on a day-to-day basis, and devise engagement strategies to meet people where they are, maximizing adoption and minimizing resistance; identify, analyze, and prepare risk mitigation tactics.

• You guide, coach, and support the project team on change management: manage change throughout the various levels of the change program, supporting each leader from Executive Sponsor to Work Stream leader, enabling them to fulfill their roles with the appropriate behaviors and actions to support the change plan.

• You help build a positive response to new ways of working: drive faster adoption, broader ultimate utilization, and greater proficiency of the changes that affect employees; evaluate and ensure user readiness, track and report issues.

• You contribute to the expanding SBM knowledge on change management throughout the organization by animating training and working sessions for all SBM different locations

This position requires geographical mobility due to very frequent travels.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Prosci Practitioner Certification or Training
• Minimum 7 years professional experience in Change management
• Geographical mobility

Specific skills:

• SBM business acumen
• Extensive knowledge of SBM organization and network
• Business partnering
• Stakeholder management at all levels of the organization
• Strategic vision
• Project management or portfolio management
• Facilitation, animation skill
• Strong communication skills in English

Behaviours and inter-personal skills:

• Empathetic, with an interest in helping people go through a change and understanding the change process
• Enthusiastic, committed, and autonomous
• Excellent interpersonal skills, and the proven ability to build strong, productive relationships at all levels of the organization
• Results oriented, problem solver

GENERAL INFORMATION

SBM Offshore N.V. is a listed holding company that is headquartered in Amsterdam. It holds direct and indirect interests in other companies that collectively with SBM Offshore N.V. form the SBM Offshore Group (“the Company”). For further information, please visit our website at www.sbmoffshore.com. The companies in which SBM Offshore N.V., directly and indirectly, owns investments are separate entities.

SBM Offshore is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. SBM Offshore does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.  All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.