Change Management Lead - Strategic Transformation
Posted date [2026-09-30]
(ID: 52754)
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Founded in 1971, ADNOC is a leading diversified energy group, wholly owned by the Abu Dhabi Government. Our network of fully integrated businesses operates across the energy value chain, helping us to responsibly meet the demands of an ever-changing energy market.
Already in the top tier of the lowest carbon intensity oil and gas producers in the world, we are taking significant steps to make today’s energy cleaner while investing in the clean energies of tomorrow, strengthening our position as a reliable and responsible global energy provider. We are allocating an initial $23 billion to advance and accelerate lower-carbon solutions, investing in new energies and decarbonization technologies to enable our net zero by 2045 ambition and our commitment to zero methane emissions by 2030. ... |
Job Description and Requirements
Change Management Lead - Strategic TransformationJob Snapshot
Role: Change Management Lead - Strategic Transformation
Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Industry: Oil and Energy
Function: Business-Strategic Management
Experience: Minimum 10 years of relevant experience
Job Type: Full Time
Position Overview
ADNOC Group is seeking a Change Management Lead - Strategic Transformation in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, to lead change activities across strategic transformation programs and organizational initiatives. The role helps employees, leaders, and stakeholders prepare for and adopt new processes, systems, and ways of working. It involves managing resistance, aligning business units, communicating change effectively, and tracking adoption beyond project implementation.
Job Details
Country: United Arab Emirates
City: Abu Dhabi
Industry: Oil and Energy
Function: Business-Strategic Management
Salary: Not disclosed
Gender: No Preference
Candidate Nationality: Not specified
Job Type: Full Time
Work Arrangement: On-site
Key Responsibilities
- Plan and execute change management activities for organizational transformation programs.
- Assess change
impacts, stakeholder needs, and organizational readiness across assigned initiatives.
- Engage senior leaders, employees, and transformation teams to build trust and support for change.
- Address resistance and align multiple business units around shared transformation objectives.
- Coordinate communication and engagement activities across concurrent initiatives.
- Apply structured change management approaches, including ADKAR, to support adoption.
- Establish and monitor change KPIs, readiness indicators, adoption measures, and business outcomes.
- Reinforce behavioral and process changes after project go-live to support lasting benefits.
Qualifications and Skills
- Bachelor\'s degree with at least 10 years of relevant experience.
- Strong stakeholder engagement, relationship-building, and influencing skills.
- Effective communication and change storytelling in complex, evolving environments.
- Ability to apply structured change management methodologies such as ADKAR.
- Confidence working with senior leaders and employees across different business units.
- Data-driven approach to measuring readiness, adoption, and transformation outcomes.
Expected Deliverables - First 6 Months
- Establish working relationships with key stakeholders and transformation teams.
- Complete change impact and stakeholder assessments for assigned initiatives.
- Develop and begin executing comprehensive change management plans.
- Deliver communication and engagement activities aligned with project milestones.
- Establish change KPIs, adoption metrics, and reporting mechanisms.
Expected Deliverables - Within 12 Months
- Demonstrate measurable improvements in adoption and organizational readiness.
- Lead enterprise-wide change interventions for major transformation programs.
- Establish a structured network of change champions.
- Improve organizational change capability through toolkits, training, and governance.
- Support benefits realization through sustained behavioral and process adoption.
- Establish consistent change management standards and practices across the transformation portfolio.
- Engage senior leaders, employees, and transformation teams to build trust and support for change.
- Address resistance and align multiple business units around shared transformation objectives.
- Coordinate communication and engagement activities across concurrent initiatives.
- Apply structured change management approaches, including ADKAR, to support adoption.
- Establish and monitor change KPIs, readiness indicators, adoption measures, and business outcomes.
- Reinforce behavioral and process changes after project go-live to support lasting benefits.
Qualifications and Skills
- Bachelor\'s degree with at least 10 years of relevant experience.
- Strong stakeholder engagement, relationship-building, and influencing skills.
- Effective communication and change storytelling in complex, evolving environments.
- Ability to apply structured change management methodologies such as ADKAR.
- Confidence working with senior leaders and employees across different business units.
- Data-driven approach to measuring readiness, adoption, and transformation outcomes.
Expected Deliverables - First 6 Months
- Establish working relationships with key stakeholders and transformation teams.
- Complete change impact and stakeholder assessments for assigned initiatives.
- Develop and begin executing comprehensive change management plans.
- Deliver communication and engagement activities aligned with project milestones.
- Establish change KPIs, adoption metrics, and reporting mechanisms.
Expected Deliverables - Within 12 Months
- Demonstrate measurable improvements in adoption and organizational readiness.
- Lead enterprise-wide change interventions for major transformation programs.
- Establish a structured network of change champions.
- Improve organizational change capability through toolkits, training, and governance.
- Support benefits realization through sustained behavioral and process adoption.
- Establish consistent change management standards and practices across the transformation portfolio.
