About the Role
The company is seeking an Organisational Change Manager & Change Enablement Consultant to support large-scale transformation programmes across the Middle East and Africa. You will lead and contribute across the full change lifecycle, bringing together organisational change management, strategic communications, training, and human-centred experience design to drive sustainable adoption and measurable business outcomes. Working with programme leadership, business stakeholders, and delivery teams, you will translate transformation objectives into practical change interventions. Alongside client delivery, you will contribute to the development of the company’s regional Organisational Change Management practice.
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Key Responsibilities
Change Strategy & Adoption
- Develop and execute integrated change strategies aligned with programme objectives and target operating models.
- Conduct stakeholder analysis, change impact assessments, and readiness evaluations.
- Build adoption plans that address stakeholder needs, behavioural change, and implementation priorities.
- Advise senior sponsors and leadership teams on engagement, readiness, and adoption.
- Establish measures to track change effectiveness and identify opportunities for improvement.
Strategic Communications & Engagement
- Design communication and engagement strategies that support stakeholders throughout the change journey.
- Develop leadership narratives, targeted messaging, engagement campaigns, and executive communication materials.
- Translate complex transformation messages into clear, accessible content for different audiences.
- Adapt communications to the cultural and business environments of the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
Training & Capability Enablement
- Lead training needs analysis based on changes to roles, processes, capabilities, and behaviours.
- Design blended learning solutions, including instructor-led sessions, digital learning, user guides, job aids, and performance support.
- Define learning journeys aligned with employee personas and target ways of working.
- Collaborate with subject-matter experts and business leaders to ensure learning supports practical application and sustained adoption.
Experience & Human-Centred Design
- Apply human-centred design principles to improve employee and stakeholder experiences.
- Translate complex changes into intuitive experiences across communication, learning, and process touchpoints.
- Work with designers and delivery teams to create a consistent, connected change journey.
- Use stakeholder feedback to refine change interventions and improve accessibility and usability.
Practice Development & Consulting
- Contribute to the company’s OCM methodologies, reusable assets, templates, and delivery approaches.
- Share knowledge and mentor junior consultants to strengthen regional capability.
- Represent change management within multidisciplinary transformation teams.
- Maintain high standards of delivery quality, stakeholder collaboration, and consulting professionalism.
Required Qualifications & Experience
- At least 5 years of relevant experience delivering organisational change, communications, and learning solutions within large-scale transformation programmes or consulting environments.
- Demonstrated experience developing and implementing change strategies that integrate stakeholder engagement, communications, training, and experience design.
- Strong facilitation, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills.
- Ability to translate strategic objectives into practical, adoption-focused deliverables.
- Experience working across complex, multicultural organisations and multidisciplinary teams.
- Strong planning and coordination skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities across workstreams.
Preferred Qualifications & Experience
- Experience supporting transformation programmes in the UAE and/or Saudi Arabia.
- Arabic language capability.
- Familiarity with learning platforms, collaboration tools, and design tools such as PowerPoint, Mural, Canva, SharePoint, and Learning Management Systems (LMS).
What We Are Looking For
A versatile, hands-on change professional who combines strategic thinking with practical delivery. You should be comfortable advising leaders, facilitating stakeholder discussions, developing communications, and shaping learning experiences that help people adopt new systems, processes, and ways of working.
