McDonald’s is proud to be one of the most recognized brands in the world, with restaurants in over 100 countries that serve 70 million customers daily. We continue to operate from a position of strength. Our updated growth strategy is focused on staying ahead of what our customers want and realizing further growth potential. Our relentless ambition is why McDonald’s remains one of the world’s leading corporations after almost 70 years. Joining McDonald's means thinking big and preparing for a career that can have influence around the world.

At McDonald’s, we see every day as a chance to create positive impact. We lead through our values centered on inclusivity, service, integrity, community and family. From support of Ronald McDonald House Charities to our Youth Opportunity project and sustainability initiatives, our values keep us dedicated to using our scale for good: good for our customers, people, industry and planet. We also offer a broad range of outstanding benefits including a sabbatical program, tuition assistance and flexible work arrangements.

We are enjoying the flexibility of a hybrid work model, in which employees spend part of their week connecting with co-workers in our state-of-the-art headquarters. Located in the booming West Loop of downtown Chicago, it's set up to be a global hub that cultivates collaboration:

• Take a class at Hamburger University
• Sample future items in our Test Kitchen
• Utilize the latest technology to connect with your team around the globe

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our crew members, staff, operators, and suppliers. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone.

The Change Enablement Lead supports the Change Lead designing the change strategy/plan. They work to implement strategies designed to increase change adoption and helping people to adapt to changes that will be introduced by the Global People Modernization program.  The position supports change management processes and deliverables, enabling functions and markets to identify and drive transformation.

The Change Enablement Lead is responsible for delivering the change plan, designed based on business inputs including stakeholder analysis, and change impacts as well as overseeing the integration into market change plans.

Key Responsibilities:

• Carries out the global change management strategy and solution deployment plans through initiating, documenting, and authorizing change processes
• Engage the appropriate partners for workstream activities and deliverables
• Partner with the 3rd party vendor Global Solution Change Specialists to provide change management support to the global people modernization project
• Implements initiatives to develop employees’ understanding and acceptance of impacts on specific job roles, policies, technology impacts and business practices
• Coordinate and collaborate between related projects, including organization design/operating model, process/policy harmonization, participating in global design, and other adjacent projects impacting the target audience as needed
• Support change for large scale global solution implementation inclusive of building & planning, executing, and tracking the change plan milestones such as:
  • Communications
  • Training
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Change Impact Assessment
  • Organizational readiness analysis
  • Post implementation support & reinforcement, and
  • Lessons learned
• Evaluate change impact and organizational readiness to limit potential risk
• Coordinate cross program engagement and communication to ensure a consistent experience for all program team members

• An understanding of change management methodologies
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations
• Experience with organizational change efforts
• Knowledge of organizational, project, and time management techniques
• Attention to detail, particularly with numerous moving parts
• Excellent relationship building skills
• Strong presentation development and facilitation skills

McDonald’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our workforce. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone. McDonald’s provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities as part of the application or hiring process or to perform the essential functions of their job. If you need assistance accessing or reading this job posting or otherwise feel you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process, please contact [email protected]. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

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