Management Consultant

Full Time
Chicago, IL 60607
Posted Today
Job description
The Opportunity
Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We collaborate with education organizations to develop strategies and implement solutions that enable the transformative change our clients need to own their future. Together, we empower clients to drive innovation, create sustainable funding streams and deliver better student outcomes.

Today, leaders of higher education institutions and academic medical centers are spending too much time reacting to market forces, rather than focusing on the essential priorities that help students, faculty and staff thrive. The most productive path forward requires an intentional approach and innovative thinking, whereby stakeholders across the entire institution rally around a shared vision and embrace the hard work of effecting change.

You’ll help our clients to achieve organizational effectiveness, improve student outcomes, implement new technologies and align resources and investments to ensure long-term sustainability.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.
Position Summary
Change Management Associates in the Digital-Workday practice assist clients with the planning and implementation of Human Capital Management (HCM), Financials and Student software. The Change Management Associate plays an important role in projects focusing on all changes to systems, business processes, and technology, organization structures and job roles. This individual implements change management plans and strategies that maximize employee engagement and minimize employee resistance. The Associate leads sub-teams, delivers materials, executes end user networks and assists in identifying change actions that should be incorporated into the overall project plan.
Qualifications
Responsibilities:
  • Participate on the change management team, ensuring the project succeeds by increasing adoption and usage
  • Act as coach to unit fiscal officers and HR professionals, helping them fulfill the role of change agents
  • Collaborate with functional team members to assist in identifying process changes, learning future state processes and system functionality, and educating end users on their new roles and business processes
  • Provide input to project communications and serve as a resource to the Communications Lead for content and review
  • Document a well-structured training curriculum for a set of functionality including audience analysis, transition materials, and detailed business process/system training modules using various training methods and tools
  • Create training materials utilizing common training development tools for business process and system training
  • Deliver training via multiple vehicles, such as in-person, web-ex and video
  • Support end users upon go-live via support labs, help desk and updates to training materials
Requirements:
  • Minimum 2 years experience in prior roles directly utilizing Workday, PeopleSoft, Lawson/Infor, or SAP
  • Minimum 2 years experience change and communications strategy and planning, with expertise in change management risk analysis, impact analysis, stakeholder analysis, readiness assessment, engagement, and strategic communications
  • Huron requires a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
  • Post-pandemic willingness to travel up to 50%
Preferred Skills & Experience:
  • Change management experience directly related to cloud ERP technology adoption
  • Experience in training strategy, planning, design, creation, and delivery
  • Excellent communication skills - oral and written - and the interpersonal skills needed quickly to establish relationships of trust and collaboration
  • Ability to establish credibility in the eyes of senior-level, financially literate university and hospital executives on the basis of expertise, maturity, and professionalism
  • Ability to train and participate in the professional development of Huron staff in both project-management and technical dimensions
  • Excellent time-management and prioritization skills
  • Ability to manage multiple projects of differing scale and duration
  • Strong analytical skills and tools such as excel used to translate information from meetings into documentation that can be shared with meeting participants and project teams
  • Desire and willingness to learn new tools, techniques, concepts, and methodologies
Posting Category
Education
Opportunity Type
Regular
Country
United States of America

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