Senior Manager, Organizational Development / Effectiveness and Change Management

Job Description

We are based in the cultural heart of London's West End. With a vast array of classic record shop and leading film companies, media offices and phenomenal restaurants. Regent's Park is close enough for a lunchtime run, as are the delights of Piccadilly Circus and the shopping mecca of Oxford Street. It is conveniently just walking distance from a number of London tube stations and mainline train stations. Our office has free snacks and drinks and an on-site gym.

Your Platform

Activision Blizzard plays a centralized role in the creation of epic entertainment by supporting our interactive gaming brands and studios with a diverse range of career opportunities across corporate functions such as Marketing, Communications, Legal, Human Resources, Finance and Supply Chain. Located in our global headquarters in Santa Monica, we encompass equal parts' agility, creativity and rigor to enhance the employee and player experience. To learn more, check us out at www.activisionblizzard.com or on Twitter at @ATVI_AB.

Your Mission

The HR Organizational Effectiveness team is a Center of Excellence supporting Activision Blizzard globally. We lead and deliver strategic HR initiatives within the Global HR Function and in support of our business units. We work to reduce complexity across operating units, deliver new business capabilities and fundamentally improve employee experience. Current initiatives include acquisition integrations, organization redesign and process improvement.

As a subject matter authority in Organization Development, Effectiveness and Change Strategy and Management, you will have a direct impact on Activision Blizzard's employee experience and engagement, as well as our business units efficiencies at delivering epic entertainment.

Taking on key business challenges, helping set up new organizational units and optimize existing ones. You will also lead change management activity across all projects, either directly involved in delivery or advising on smaller initiatives.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
• Partner closely with business leaders, and HR Business Partners to identify, scope and lead OD/E initiatives that improve employee engagement, operating efficiency, and organizational productivity
• Flex into Organizational Development, Organizational Effectiveness, Organizational Change, Project Management and any additional roles as the need arises by the project slate and team.
• Coach and engage with businesses leaders to align OD/E efforts with strategic and long-term goals
• Support business leaders in identifying appropriate critical metrics for their teams, to enable effective monitoring and progress realization
• Work with HR Leaders to proactively address OD/E issues by assessing root causes and performance gaps and helping implement appropriate interventions.
• Contribute to the development of a common language and scalable solutions supporting organizational change across all prioritized strategic HR projects
• Provide thought leadership and advice on organizational change strategies
• Assess organizational impact and organizational readiness for each change initiative on a global, regional and/or country level
• Partner with communications partners to create and implement detailed communication plans
• Evaluate change impact and ensure changes communicated, detailed accurately in training materials, and in our HR knowledge base
• Build and be responsible for the change plan for each change initiative implementation, and identify appropriate KPIs to assess employee adoption and satisfaction
• Perform change risk analysis, mitigation planning and result execution
• Train employees in new processes
• Track record of using data and analytics to support recommendations with partners and build measurable results

Player Profile
• Extensive demonstrated ability leading organizational efficiency initiatives, operating model development, the design of governance structures, organizational design efforts and change
• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience.
• A high degree of adaptability and ability to navigate the organization across sophisticated and diverse situations.
• Comfort with ambiguity; strong decision-making skills and provide well-informed solutions.
• Great teammate with a roll-up-one's-sleeves attitude, and highly developed sense of proactivity.
• Outstanding communication skills with the ability to capture audiences of all levels in the organization.
• Ability to frame, structure and tackle sophisticated problems in a dynamic environment.
• Use data-driven insights that influence business strategy and decision making.
• Experience in Project Management & Agile methodologies.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! At Activision Blizzard King, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.
Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI), is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet.
Our ability to build immersive and innovate worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for 'Every World' - we've got our employees covered.

The video game industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

Accommodation Request

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here.

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