Change Manager and Executive Assistant to Senior Vice President
Service
Nils Foss Allé 1
3400 Hillerød
Country
Denmark
FOSS is a company driven by a strong sense of purpose, and our knack for innovation has brought many first-of-their-kind technologies to market throughout the company’s 67 year-long history. We come up with smarter ways to make the best use of agricultural resources, and to help eliminate food waste.
We are currently looking for a Change Manager / EA to our SVP responsible for Service, Technical Product Management, Quality Assurance and Global IT
The Change Manager position is a newly created position. As Change Manager / EA you will play a vital role in the global management team that counts members from the global organization. With strategies and projects in all departments your impact as a thought leader and change agent will be fundamental for the cultural shift towards professionalizing our services, improving our efficiency, and lifting employee engagement. On top of these tasks, you will act as EA for the Senior Vice President which means that you will have a number of administrative tasks – such as calendar planning, travel arrangements etc.
Change a truly global management team
In Service more than 350 global colleagues aim to meet our customers’ needs for analytics by providing fast installation, preventive maintenance, and breakdown services. Technical Product Management and Quality Assurance counts 40 colleagues in Hillerød and China, while Global IT is a little larger and situated in Warsaw, Poland. You will join a high paced, international, result-oriented and collaborative team, the atmosphere is professional and to the point, but always with room for a smile and humor.
Key responsibilities
You will create compelling narratives that communicate the importance of our strategic transformations and their impact on business. You will design and execute change management initiatives that drives employee engagement and adoption in major strategic initiatives. You will guide and consult project managers on change management initiatives in their projects.
Your responsibilities will include tasks such as:
Collaborate with and advise Executives, Senior Management and stakeholders to define clear objectives, key performance indicators and success metrics for changes.
Create change management standards and train colleagues in practicing change management.
Identify barriers as well as leavers for change.
Implement effective communication strategies to maintain transparency and facilitate continuous feedback.
Internal communication and presentations.
Administration for SVP: calendar, meeting & travel arrangements, approx. 1 day/week.
What do you bring?
You have significant (+5 years) experience in change management from global organizations. You have a proven record of leading successful cultural transformations, organizational changes or similar.
The ideal candidate comes with change management certification, degree in business and organizational development or relevant experience within areas such as servitization, LEAN implementation or business system design implementation.
In order to succeed, you should have exceptional communication and presentation skills in English and Danish and have a solid understanding of global cultural differences and how to navigate these.
Who are you?
Being successful in this position is intricately linked to your abilities to establish close relationships with managers in the teams, identifying areas in which your knowledge and competencies can assist us in achieving set goals and designing ambitions for effective changes.
It is important that you are self-driven and have excellent skills in coordination and follow-up when balancing your many stakeholders and the strategy against our short-term gains.
Application
Please send your application and CV by using the link below. Note that we only receive applications sent through the link. We conduct interviews on an ongoing basis and therefore encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
FOSS is committed to maintaining an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce. You can help us sustain an unbiased recruitment process by not including photo or age in your application.
FOSS
Today, more than 8 billion people around the world are dependent on nutritional food. Tons of food being produced in a million different ways and under varying conditions, creating challenges all the way from field to fork. One of them, obviously, being the effects, it has on climate change. FOSS helps the world’s 100 biggest food companies and more than 40.000 others around the world navigate exactly that with intelligent, data-driven and innovative analytical solutions. We are making sustainability a better business and we’re doing so as global market leader in our field – improving food quality, minimizing food waste, ensuring food safety and securing fair payment.
Join a pioneering and innovative company in the food and agriculture industry. A company on a mission, with offices all around the world and 1.700 talented colleagues from more than 32 different countries.
