Senior Manager, Organizational Change Management in Halifax, Canada

The Opportunity

Company, Department: Emera Inc, Organizational Change Management - Business Transformation

The Senior Manager, Organizational Change Management (OCM) provides enterprise‑wide leadership to ensure the successful adoption and sustainment of strategic change across our operating companies. This role sets the vision, strategy, methodology, and standards for how change is led, governed, and embedded into the organization—advancing readiness, adoption, and long‑term cultural and behavioral shifts.

As a Senior Manager within Business Transformation, you will oversee a high‑performing OCM team, influence executive decision‑making, and shape how employees and leaders navigate change. You will strengthen organizational change capability, drive alignment across business functions, and ensure transformation initiatives deliver measurable business value.

Key elements of this role include

Enterprise Change Leadership

• Own the enterprise change strategy and governance framework, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy and long‑term transformation roadmaps.
• Continuously evolve change methodologies, leadership sponsorship models, and change network effectiveness.

People Leadership

• Lead, develop, and coach a high‑performing OCM team, including internal employees and external partners.
• Manage performance, talent development, onboarding, vendor contracts, workforce planning, and resource allocation to ensure delivery excellence.

Stakeholder Engagement & Influence

• Build trusted partnerships with executives, business leaders, and cross‑functional stakeholders to embed change leadership accountability.
• Champion enterprise collaboration with PMO, Technology, Communications, and other teams to integrate OCM into delivery models and governance.

Change Measurement & Continuous Improvement

• Define and manage key metrics for change adoption, readiness, and employee behavioral outcomes.
• Implement analytics, feedback loops, and lessons‑learned processes to drive ongoing improvement and reduce change saturation.

OCM Excellence & Service Delivery

• Lead the design and delivery of OCM plans, including impact assessments, stakeholder engagement, communication, training, and reinforcement approaches.
• Ensure consistent use of tools, templates, and methodologies across the OCM function.
• Build scalable, human‑centered OCM products and services that enhance change capability across the enterprise.

These skills will make you successful

To thrive in this role, you recognize yourself in most of the following competencies and skills listed below:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Psychology, HR, Organizational Development, Communications, Change Management, or related field. Master’s degree in a related field would be an asset.
• Prior leadership experience with a track record of building engaged teams, driving performance, and developing future leaders.
• 5+ years in Organizational Change Management, Human Resources, Organizational Development, and/or Employee Communications.
• Proven track record of leading complex change initiatives and influencing senior, cross functional stakeholders to drive adoption and results.
• Experience developing strategies, managing budgets, and leading teams.
• Exceptional communication skills, including facilitation and executive presentations.
• Professional certifications such as; Prosci, Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP), Project Management Professional (PMP), Agile, Lean, Human Centered Design, Adult Education are highly desirable.
• Occasional travel to other locations to drive leadership engagement, facilitate training, and enable organization change.

We understand that experience comes in many forms, and we’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team. So, if your experience is close to what we’ve listed above, please consider applying. Have a question or want to learn more about this opportunity? Contact Danielle.Boutilier@emera.com.

The perks of joining our team? We offer

- Health & Wellbeing: A comprehensive benefits plan, 24/7 access to virtual health care services for you and your family through Dialogue, access to a free on-site fitness centre, Employee and Family Assistance Program, parental leave top-up plan and wellness benefits.

- Grow Your Career: Opportunities to advance within and between our affiliate companies, a focus on employee development and available sponsored education programs.

- Community Engagement & Care: Corporate investments in the places where our people live and work, mentoring opportunities, fundraising-matching and; volunteer programs, various committees and employee resource groups, and scholarships for children of employees.

- Competitive Compensation: Short-term incentive plan and a Defined Contribution Pension Plan.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

As one of Atlantic Canada’s largest publicly traded companies, we are ranked one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Top Employers for Young People and Top Diversity Employers. We know our success is driven by our dedicated teams and we strongly encourage applications from all qualified candidates, including persons who identify as racially visible, Indigenous, persons with disabilities, women in underrepresented roles and members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community.

Applicants from these equity groups may self-identify through the online application process. We support candidates and employees with access and accommodation needs and encourage you to let us know when you require accommodation.

Recruitment and Promotion Policy

The success of the Emera Company is driven by its people: a strong team with a shared commitment to support the Emera Company mission and values. The purpose of our recruitment policy is to provide a consistent framework to support fair and equitable attraction, hiring, and retention of the best talent for vacant positions. We are dedicated to maintaining a fair hiring process that provides equitable opportunities to all our applicants and is guided by our company values.