Senior Director, Change Management

About Savills

Savills is a company driven by extraordinary individuals passionate about excellence and leadership in their respective fields. Renowned as a leading commercial real estate firm, Savills provides services such as tenant representation, project management, workplace strategy, and occupant experience, showcasing extensive expertise.

Our collective mission is to empower people through innovative places and spaces. This mission shapes our corporate culture and guides our actions, fostering collaboration to achieve outstanding results.

Role Overview

We seek a Senior Director of Change Management to spearhead and expand our Change and Communications Management services. This leadership role requires a strategic thinker with demonstrated success in steering organizations through complex transformations. Ideal candidates often have backgrounds in Human Resources, Organizational Psychology, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Organizational Development, Talent Management, or related fields.

The successful candidate will help companies balance business priorities, workforce dynamics, and organizational effectiveness throughout enterprise-level change initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership at top-tier clients, guiding strategic development and execution of change management plans including leadership alignment, stakeholder engagement, impact assessments, readiness, and communications.
• Collaborate with executives and HR to support organizational design, workforce planning, succession, and leadership transitions aligned with transformative goals.
• Lead culture transformation efforts, defining desired behaviors, enhancing leadership cohesion, reinforcing organizational values, and embedding enduring cultural change.
• Evaluate how change impacts organizational culture, workforce, leadership, design, and readiness.
• Design and implement comprehensive change and workforce transition strategies including leadership engagement approaches.
• Identify resistance sources, develop targeted mitigation plans, and manage risks associated with stakeholder impacts.
• Identify opportunities to improve business outcomes consistent with company objectives.
• Handle sensitive organizational and employee data with high professionalism, discretion, and confidentiality.
• Contribute significantly to business development through proposals, thought leadership, and client presentations.
• Partner with diverse stakeholders to shepherd change policies enterprise-wide.
• Develop and deploy communication strategies that enable teams to embrace change.
• Lead, mentor, and coach a team of professionals to foster their growth and performance.
• Produce high-quality client deliverables.

Qualifications and Attributes

• Exceptional relationship management skills for influencing key stakeholders.
• Proven capability to manage sensitive information with excellent judgment and confidentiality.
• Creative problem solver skilled in storytelling and visual communication.
• Dedicated to delivering client-centric, outcomes-driven, cost-effective, and detail-oriented solutions.
• Strong leadership with a passion for mentoring high-performing teams.
• Certifications like Prosci or CCMP strongly preferred.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated expertise in managing multiple complex projects simultaneously with precision.

Preferred Education and Experience

• Extensive experience (15+ years) leading enterprise-wide organizational transformations, change management, communications, culture shifts, and leadership alignment.
• Track record working alongside executive leaders and HR on organizational effectiveness, talent strategies, succession, design, and workforce transformations.
• Experience with mergers & acquisitions, restructuring, leadership transitions, workforce planning, or succession is a significant plus.
• Familiarity with the real estate sector is advantageous.

Diversity and Inclusion

Savills is committed to creating a diverse workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, disability, age, veteran status, or other protected characteristics.

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