The latest #EmployeeListening and #OrgChange positions, rated for the role’s impact on the organization. Don’t forget to check out the summary at the end of the list… and remember that many of the roles in prior issues have remained active.
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Strongest to Weakest Alignment with Infectious Change Design
🔥 Ready for Infectious Change
Insight
- Caterpillar — Employee Listening and Insights Partner
Location: Peoria, IL (Hybrid)
Why It Stands Out: A classic employee listening role that bridges survey analytics, workforce insights, and organizational decision-making. The position focuses on transforming employee feedback into actionable recommendations for leaders, making it a strong fit for practitioners who enjoy connecting data to organizational outcomes.
Apply: https://careers.caterpillar.com/en/jobs/r0000373688/employee-listening-and-insights-partner/ - Veris Insights — Senior Research Consultant
Location: Remote (U.S.)
Why It Stands Out: Combines research design, survey analytics, executive storytelling, and strategic consulting. The role helps Fortune 1000 employers make talent and recruiting decisions based on evidence rather than intuition, making it a strong fit for employee listening and people analytics professionals who want client-facing influence.
Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/verisinsights/940d03ee-cb68-4302-9d5e-1358b06fba6a
Adoption - ICF — Senior Organizational Development Consultant
Location: Remote (U.S.)
Why It Stands Out: Focused on helping organizations successfully implement and sustain change through organizational development, workforce initiatives, stakeholder engagement, and adoption strategies. Strong alignment with behavior-change consulting and transformation execution.
Apply: https://careers.icf.com/us/en/job/IIIIIIUSR2602059EXTERNALENUS/Senior-Organizational-Development-Consultant - Korn Ferry — Senior Consultant, Leadership Development & Assessment
Location: Remote
Why It Stands Out: Sits at the intersection of leadership assessment, succession planning, executive development, and organizational performance. Unlike many leadership development roles, this one directly connects talent decisions to organizational outcomes and change readiness.
Apply: https://kornferry.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/mobile-0/channel-9/appcentre-5/brand-8/xf-7bd0dda32be1/wid-2/candidate/so/pm/4/pl/12/opp/26593-Senior-Consultant-Leadership-Development-Assessment/en-GB - Marriott Vacations Worldwide — Manager, Global Change Management
Location: Orlando, FL
Why It Stands Out: A pure change adoption role focused on readiness, stakeholder engagement, change champions, feedback loops, and business adoption. Strong emphasis on measurable behavior change rather than communications alone.
Apply: https://careers.marriottvacationsworldwide.com/job/manager-global-change-management/J3M6FY6MT117V9S3Y8B - McDermott Will & Emery — Employee Experience Manager
Location: Washington, DC (Hybrid)
Why It Stands Out: Focuses on employee experience, workforce engagement, feedback, and implementation of organizational initiatives. A strong example of connecting employee listening to organizational action and adoption.
Apply: https://mwe.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/mwe_careers/job/Washington-DC/Employee-Experience-Manager_R-100821 - Johnson & Johnson MedTech — Sr. Manager, Change Management & Training
Location: Multiple U.S. Locations
Why It Stands Out: Owns business adoption for a major global transformation initiative. Includes readiness assessments, stakeholder engagement, change impact analysis, pulse measurement, and adoption tracking. Strong focus on measurable implementation outcomes.
Apply: https://www.careers.jnj.com/en/jobs/r-078303/sr-manager-change-mgmt-training/ - Cardinal Health — Performance and Transformation Manager
Location: Remote (U.S.)
Why It Stands Out: Combines process transformation, governance, learning strategy, and business adoption. Focuses on creating sustainable changes in how work gets done through operating discipline, accountability, and capability building.
Apply: https://jobs.cardinalhealth.com/search/jobdetails/performance-and-transformation-manager/0deda36d-d268-4320-adb9-e0882c48bd10
Transformation - Solari — VP, People and Culture
Location: Remote (Selected States)
Why It Stands Out: Owns workforce planning, organizational design, leadership development, succession planning, culture, engagement, and organizational effectiveness. One of the strongest enterprise transformation roles in this batch.
Apply: https://solari-inc.org/about/careers/current-openings/?gh_jid=5157789007 - Centric Consulting Group — Organizational Development Consultant
Location: Remote (U.S.)
Why It Stands Out: Focused on organizational effectiveness, leadership systems, culture, organizational design, and enterprise performance improvement. Strong alignment with large-scale organizational transformation work.
Apply: https://phg.tbe.taleo.net/phg02/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=CENTCONS&cws=38&rid=6815 - Alnylam — Associate Director, People Operations & Transformation
Location: Cambridge, MA (Hybrid)
Why It Stands Out: Combines HR transformation, employee experience, process redesign, design thinking, AI-enabled workflows, governance, and change enablement. A strong internal consulting role focused on redesigning how HR operates.
Apply: https://alnylam.eightfold.ai/careers/job/893395057647
Insights from ChatGPT
This batch leans heavily toward change adoption and transformation execution, reflecting the continued market demand for leaders who can move organizations from strategy to sustained behavior change. Several roles—including Solari, Alnylam, and Central Consulting Group—focus on redesigning organizational systems, while others such as Marriott, Johnson & Johnson, and Cardinal Health emphasize readiness, adoption, and measurable implementation outcomes. The Insight category remains smaller but includes strong opportunities for professionals who translate employee and workforce data into organizational action.
More on the Rating Logic
🔥 Ready for Infectious Change
A role must clearly combine:
1. Employee Listening
- Owns or shapes how feedback is gathered (surveys, pulse, lifecycle, qualitative)
- Interprets data into insight (not just reporting)
2. Organizational Change
- Owns or drives execution of change
- Influences how leaders and teams actually operate differently
3. Signals of Real Behavior Change Design
(doesn’t need all, but should show several)
- Cross-functional influence without authority
- Focus on adoption, not just communication
- Iteration, measurement, and adjustment over time
- Leader behavior, team norms, or system changes
- Evidence of how change spreads, not just how it’s announced
👉 If all three are present → Ready
🟡 Not Yet Ready for Infectious Change
These roles have part of the equation, but not the full system:
- Strong listening but weak on execution
- Strong change management but disconnected from feedback
- Heavy on programs (L&D, engagement, HRBP) without ownership of behavior change
- Influence is indirect or optional, not required
👉 These are often good roles—but incomplete systems
⚠️ Proceed with Caution
Risk of being a cog, not a driver
Vague scope or staffing-driven roles
Transactional work (assessments, reporting, admin)
Little visibility into real influence or outcomes
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