Change Manager

Job description / Role

Aramco energizes the world economy.

Aramco occupies a unique position in the global energy industry. We are the world's largest producer of hydrocarbons (oil and gas), with the lowest upstream carbon intensity of any major producer.

With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco's value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations' spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom's vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.

We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.

Overview

Responsible for providing Change Management in relation to the digital transformation program through business-led corporate programs to improve financial performance, generate revenue from new businesses, strengthen climate leadership position, enhance safety & security and prepare workforce for digital era. The primary role is to develop and deliver, through a structured change process, change management tasks and activities for major projects and programs to support adoption of the change by working collaboratively with all stakeholders. Can involve researching market insights, opportunities for new growth, industry trends, and support with a variety of marketing and business development activities for several of the corporate practices.

Duties & Responsibilities
- Develop and deliver change management activities for a project or change initiative to support adoption of the change and drives to project and business outcome.
- Apply structured change process and methodologies to support the adoption of changes required by a project or initiatives
- Work collaboratively with Project and business stakeholders to deliver change management activities.
- Assess the change impact - conduct impact analyses, assess change readiness and identify key stakeholders.
- Support and deliver change, communications and engagement activities
- Provide input, document requirements and support the design and delivery of training programs
- Overseeing and leading any change management projects, including the researching, implementation and assessment from start to finish
- Creating and conducting the coaching and training sessions for various audiences, including stakeholder's management and leadership.
- Understanding the change/project objectives and being able to project these in the sessions
- Ensuring project goals are met and executed by working with numerous internal resources
- Mentoring and supporting junior team members and assigning tasks where relevant
- Ability to acknowledge and address stakeholder issues and resolve these with the intent of exceeding expectations
- Identifying suitable communication strategies and building on these, reviewing the plans and delivering reports to the executives

Requirements

Minimum Requirements
- A Bachelor's degree in Engineering or in MIS, IT, BA from a recognized and approved program. An advanced degree is preferred.
- Minimum of eight (8) years of experience in change initiatives, with a valid CM related certification and recent successful change, with experience including the field of innovative and digitally disruptive products, markets and trends
- Can establish change within an organization concentrating on employee development, behavioral, and cultural change
- Has strong interpersonal skills, able to operate in a complex and agile business environment, dealing with executive levels and manage conflict, advising and coaching
- Strong written and verbal communication, is excellent in writing and presentations development, and delivery, has good facilitation skills
- Has excellent analytical and research skills

Working environment

Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.

At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world's biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs - one of the largest in the world.

About the Company

Saudi Aramco is an integrated global energy enterprise. The company markets and exports crude oil, petroleum products, natural gas liquids and sulfur. It also ships crude oil worldwide through an affiliated company and participates in petroleum refining and marketing activities at home and abroad. Its overseas affiliates are in the United States, Egypt, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea and Japan.

Saudi Aramco's subsidiaries span the globe, with offices in Houston, Washington, New York, London, Leiden, Dubai, Singapore, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoul.