Lead Business Consultant

Role Description s:
The Lead Business Consultant partners with our Change Center of Excellence| Portfolio Leaders| Value Stream Leaders| Solution Train and Agile Release Train Leadership to embed organizational change management (OCM) into SAFe ceremonies| ensuring change initiatives| epics| and features translate into actionable adoption plans at the story level. Acting like Product Management for Change| the role drives alignment between both strategic transformation goals as well as delivery execution goals for sustained PPL business outcomes.

• Trusted change advisor to CCoE| Portfolio Leadership| Value Stream Leadership and Solution Train Agile Release Train Leadership.
• Coordinate| remain aligned with the enterprise Change Center of Excellence (CCoE).
• Work with CCoE Change Digital Enablement to roadmap and forecast needs.
• Facilitate executive sponsorship and stakeholder alignment across the value stream.
• Integrate change management into Portfolio| Value Stream| and ART ceremonies.
• Ensure change impact assessments and stakeholder analysis for initiatives and epics.
• Ensure OCM initiatives and epics are refined into features and story-level change action plans.
• Partner with Product Management and RTEs to align change actions with delivery cadence.
• Build and manage an OCM backlog aligned with product and application delivery backlogs.
• Ensure communications| training| and adoption enablers are included in backlogs and PI plans.
• Guide ARTs| Product Owners| and Scrum Masters on integrating OCM into team-level work.
• Provide readiness and adoption metrics for governance and Inspect Adapt.
• Surface change risks| dependencies| and resistance patterns to leadership leverage RAID.

• Change Management
• Thought Leadership
• Stakeholder Management
• Embedded Change
• IPM
• Business Alignment
• Delivery Excellence via Key Results
• Business Agility
• Portfolio Strategy
• Communications Strategy
• Training Strategy
• Risk Management
• Roadmap Creation
• Strategy and Delivery
• Value Realization
• Vendor Management
• Specialized Skills
• Collaboration
• Presentation Tools
• Agile work management tooling expertise
• Industry recognized change management certification(s): CCMP| Prosci| APMG
• Industry recognized Agile at Scale certification(s): SAFe| LeSS| Scrum

• Agile Specialisation ~ Change Management

Experience

Required:

4-6