Manager Global Organization Culture

Purpose and Scope

The role is responsible for leading the implementation and continuous improvement of FME’s aspirational organizational culture. Acting as a subject matter expert and strategic advisor, this position ensures the effective alignment of cultural initiatives with business objectives. It involves owning and driving culture transformation strategies, collaborating with senior leaders, and influencing corporate culture direction. The role requires independent decision-making in complex environments, as well as the ability to manage large-scale change initiatives that impact multiple business functions.

Responsibilities

• Provide SME Expertise: Act as a Senior Advisor on FME's global organizational culture, providing guidance and expertise to support its implementation and continuous development.
• Deliver Trainings: Deliver certified FME Aspirational Culture training programs, ensuring leadership teams are equipped to champion cultural transformationCollaborate & consult: Collaborate with leaders across business segments and functions to review processes and team rituals, providing consultation to enhance alignment with FME's aspirational culture.
• Integration of Culture in Business Strategy: Work closely with business leaders to integrate culture initiatives into broader organizational strategies and operational goals. Facilitate workshops or strategy sessions to align business objectives with the aspirational culture framework.
• Cultural Risk Identification and Mitigation: Develop tools and processes to identify potential cultural risks or areas of misalignment within teams, functions, or projects. Proactively design interventions and solutions to address these risks, ensuring long-term cultural resilience.
• Leadership coaching: Provide leadership coaching to senior leaders, collaborating with expert teams to conduct comprehensive assessments that evaluate leadership capabilities and alignment with the organization's aspirational culture. Develop actionable insights and personalized development plans to enhance culture fitness and leadership effectiveness.
• Culture-fit Training: Collaborate with the Talent and Leadership Development (TLOD) team to design and develop learning and self-training tools aimed at enhancing employees' culture fitness. Ensure the tools are engaging, accessible, and aligned with the organization's aspirational culture goals.
• Project Leadership: Lead and oversee, and support the implementation of culture transformation projects in collaboration with the responsibility workstream lead within business or functional areas.  Develop new frameworks and approaches for culture change, integrating behavioral science and industry best practices."
• Assessment & tracking: Define key success indicators in partnership with the workstream lead and coordinate the assessment and evaluation of project outcomes.
• Change Management: Offer ongoing change management support throughout the entire project implementation process.
• Global community management: Co-host regular meetings with the global community of culture ambassadors to provide updates and collect feedback on global culture change initiatives, discuss challenges, and collaboratively find solutions.
• External Benchmarking & Best Practices Integration: Research and benchmark organizational culture practices from industry leaders and thought leaders. Identify and propose innovative practices and tools to enhance FME's culture strategy, ensuring alignment with global trends and emerging best practices.
• Project Delivery and Reporting: Take overall project responsibility towards the Project Sponsor and Steering Committee, including tracking timelines, milestones, and deliverables.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience in a multinational healthcare or corporate environment, with a proven track record of leading global culture transformation initiatives.
• Experience in international corporate environment preferred
• Strong presentation skills, including experience presenting to medium to large audiences, leadership team members, and leading training sessions and focus groups
• Successful track record of superior service delivery and change management, preferably in a global environment
• Proven ability to design, implement and optimize processes – ensuring both efficiency & effectiveness
• Proven ability to establish strong relationships and work collaboratively with colleagues of all levels across the organization
• Ability to frame program information and evaluation analytics in a digestible and business friendly format that identifies key business implications and inspires action; must be able to create visually appealing Executive Summaries using Microsoft Office (e.g., Word, PowerPoint)
• Experience with program design, implementation, and evaluation
• Experience with change management
• Experience with organizational effectiveness
• Experience managing small to large-scale projects including project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closing
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills

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