Senior Change Management Advisor (M/F/D)

Senior Change Management Advisor (M/F/D)

Are you passionate about leading enterprise change and driving adoption across complex, high‑impact initiatives?

Do you thrive in partnering with senior leaders to shape strategy, influence stakeholders, and deliver measurable business transformation?

Partnering with the best

Baker Hughes is a global energy technology company serving customers in more than 120 countries. We design, manufacture, and deliver industry-leading solutions that support energy extraction, production, and processing. Our commitment to innovation and operational excellence drives safer, cleaner, and more efficient energy solutions worldwide.

Fueling your passion

The Senior Change Management Advisor is a senior practitioner within the Change Management team, responsible for leading high‑impact change management delivery while strengthening enterprise change management capability and maturity. This role operates at the intersection of strategy and execution—owning end‑to‑end change management for complex, high‑risk initiatives and serving as a trusted advisor to executive sponsors and senior leaders.

The Senior Change Management Advisor drives adoption and value realization by designing and executing integrated change management strategies, engaging stakeholders across all levels, enabling leaders through effective sponsorship, and proactively managing change risks. In parallel, the role advances enterprise change management capability by contributing to standards, tools, and methodologies; coaching practitioners and leaders; and elevating consistency and effectiveness of change management execution across the organization.

As a Senior Change Management Advisor, you will be responsible for:

Strategic Change Management Delivery

Leading end to end change management strategy and execution for select enterprise level, strategic or high visibility initiatives, ensuring alignment to business priorities and value outcomes. This includes:

• Developing and Own Change Management Strategy: Designing and implementing a comprehensive change management strategy aligned with program goals, addressing high complexity and risk factors.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Influence: Identifying, analyzing, and managing stakeholders across all levels of the organization. Build strong relationships with executives, business leaders, and frontline employees to foster buy-in and commitment.
• Impact & Readiness Assessments: Conducting detailed change impact analyses and organizational readiness assessments to inform change management planning and risk mitigation.
• Communication & Engagement Plans: Creating and execute targeted communication and engagement strategies that clearly articulate the vision, benefits, and impacts of the change.
• Training & Enablement: Partnering with Learning & Development teams to design and deliver training programs that equip employees with the skills and knowledge needed for successful adoption.
• Risk Management: Identifying potential risks to adoption and develop proactive mitigation strategies to minimize disruption and resistance.
• Measurement & Reporting: Defining success metrics, monitor adoption progress, and report outcomes to leadership. Adjust strategies based on feedback and performance data.
• Partnering closely with executive sponsors and senior leaders to shape change management approach, sponsorship strategy, and leadership alignment.
• Serving as a trusted thought partner to transformation leaders, offering perspective on sequencing, change saturation, and adoption tradeoffs.

Change Management Capability Enablement & Maturity

• Actively contribute to the evolution of Baker Hughes’ enterprise change management capability, standards, and ways of working.
• Contributing to the refinement of the Baker Hughes change management methodology, playbook, tools, and templates used across the enterprise.
• Coaching and mentor change practitioners, project teams, and leaders, strengthening decentralized execution while reinforcing enterprise consistency.
• Supporting organizational change maturity assessments and identify targeted opportunities to improve effectiveness across functions and segments.
• Supporting the stewardship of the Change Management Community of Practice, elevating practitioner capability through knowledge sharing, coaching, and applied guidance.

Supporting Responsibilities

• Providing input and insight to enterprise change governance and prioritization discussions, particularly for initiatives within assigned domains.
• Contributing perspective to enterprise change reporting and dashboards by interpreting trends and implications.
• Supporting leadership decision making by synthesizing insights from initiative level change activities and practitioner feedback.

To be successful in this role, you will:

• Have a Bachelor’s degree in Business, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Organizational Development, Human Resources, or related field.
• Have 8+ years of experience delivering end-to-end change management for complex, enterprise scale change initiatives with demonstrated success in adoption and value realization.
• Have Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP), Prosci, or equivalent change management certification.
• Have proven ability to engage and influence senior leaders and executive sponsors.
• Have strong advisory and consulting mindset with the ability to balance enterprise standards and local context.
• Have strong executive presence, with the ability to influence, coach, and challenge senior leaders constructively.
• Have the ability to maintain and deliver multiple concurrent change management projects.

Preferred

• Have a Master’s degree in Organizational Development, Business Administration, or related field.
• Have experience working within or alongside an enterprise change management office / center of excellence.
• Have deep expertise across core change disciplines: impact assessment, stakeholder engagement, leadership alignment, adoption planning, and sustainment.

What Success Looks Like

• Critical initiatives achieve strong adoption, faster stabilization, and clearer value realization.
• Leaders demonstrate stronger sponsorship and ownership of change.
• Change practitioners are better equipped, more confident, and more consistent in execution.
• Baker Hughes continues to mature as an organization that delivers change well—repeatedly and at scale.

Work Environment:

• Remote working.

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are stronger when our people are developed, engaged, and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work. We invest in wellbeing, capability development, and leadership growth across all levels.

Working for you

Our innovations have transformed the energy industry for over a century. To continue progressing, we look for individuals who embrace change and contribute to building the future.

What You Can Expect

• Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities

• Comprehensive private medical care options

• Safety net of life insurance and disability programs

• Tailored financial programs

• Education assistance

• Generous parental leave

• Mental health resources

• Dependent care support

• Additional elected or voluntary benefits

For Italy: The initial pay range for this position will be EUR 60,800 To 99,000.

The provisions of Contratto Collettivo Industria Metalmeccanica e della installazione di impianti will be applied to this position. Section VI – Titolo IV of that collective bargaining agreement relates to pay.

You will be eligible to participate in Company-sponsored benefit programs, including health & welfare programs and the Thrift Plan (401k). You will have a choice of coverage options that best suit your needs. Coverage options and contribution amounts are related to your benefit elections, base salary level, and specific requirements of each of these plans.

This position is eligible for our comprehensive and competitive benefits package, which can be found here, and is further eligible for additional forms of compensation such as bonuses subject to the terms of the applicable benefit plans or policies.

The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Project Management Senior Advisor - Functional Mgmt