Job Type: Full Time

Job Category: IT

Job Description

Role: Lead Business Consultant
Location: Allentown, NY
FTE  
 
Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• The Lead Business Consultant partners with our Change Center of Excellence, Portfolio Leaders, 
• Value Stream Leaders, Solution Train and Agile Release Train Leadership to embed organizational 
• change management (OCM) into SAFe ceremonies, ensuring change initiatives, 
• epics, and features translate into actionable adoption plans at the story level. Acting like 
• Product Management for Change, the role drives alignment between both strategic transformation 
• goals as well as delivery execution goals for sustained PPL business outcomes.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Trusted change advisor to CCoE, Portfolio Leadership, Value Stream Leadership and Solution Train/Agile 
• Release Train Leadership.
• Coordinate, remain aligned with the enterprise Change Center of Excellence (CCoE).
• Work with CCoE & Change & Digital Enablement to roadmap and forecast needs.
• Facilitate executive sponsorship and stakeholder alignment across the value stream.
• Integrate change management into Portfolio, Value Stream, and ART ceremonies.
• Ensure change impact assessments and stakeholder analysis for initiatives and epics.
• Ensure OCM initiatives and epics are refined into features and story level change action plans.
• Partner with Product Management and RTEs to align change actions with delivery cadence.
• Build and manage an OCM backlog aligned with product and application delivery backlogs.
• Ensure communications, training, and adoption enablers are included in backlogs and PI plans.
• Guide ARTs, Product Owners, and Scrum Masters on integrating OCM into team level work.
• Provide readiness and adoption metrics for governance and Inspect & Adapt.
• Surface change risks, dependencies, and resistance patterns to leadership; leverage RAID.

Core Skills

Change Management

Thought Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Embedded Change/IPM

Business Alignment

Delivery Excellence via Key Results

Business Agility

Portfolio Strategy

Communications Strategy

Training Strategy

Risk Management

Roadmap Creation

Strategy and Delivery

Value Realization

Vendor Management

Specialized Skills

Collaboration & Presentation Tools

Agile work management tooling expertise

Industry recognized change management certification(s)

CCMP, Prosci, APMG

Industry recognized Agile at Scale certification(s)

SAFe®, LeSS, Scrum@Scale

Required Skills