ABOUT IMAX:

IMAX is not your everyday entertainment experience. With over 50 years of history as a global innovator in entertainment technology, our employees and their careers have constantly gone beyond the ordinary. From offices across North America, Europe, and Asia, we combine proprietary software, architecture, and equipment with industry-leading knowledge and connections to create experiences that take audiences beyond the edge of their seats to a world they have never imagined. Our Hollywood team are trusted movie business insiders with decades of production experience, acting as advisors to top filmmakers and studios across the world. Our technology experts are leaders in the industry, constantly pushing the limits of what is possible in entertainment. Our sales and marketing teams are talented professionals who build and enhance the IMAX brand globally.

IMAX's network is among the most important and successful theatrical distribution platforms for major event films around the world, and our growing Live and Enhanced businesses have allowed us to bring the IMAX Experience to our partnerships across live music, events and streaming to provide the best possible experience across any screen. As the world’s leading entertainment technology company, IMAX has revolutionized the way people experience movies, and continues to push the boundaries of entertainment experiences forward. Our employees are driven by a passion to take audiences around the world to places they have only dreamed of.

Come explore IMAX – where innovation, creativity and passion come together. Get inspired, get involved, and ignite your future with IMAX!

JOB DESCRIPTION

This role will plan, lead, and execute global and country specific operational and organizational change projects including the successful adoption of Workday to achieve our ambition of operational excellence. You accept flexibility with working hours to cover our global operation as well as you find it interesting to go around the globe to assist our HQ, regions, and branches which also might include longer stays to lead and implement projects. On the other hand, you will be given a high degree of freedom with proven results.

You will need to demonstrate and continue to develop structured thinking, facilitation, data driven approaches, and stakeholder management to projects in addition to strategic delivery skills and experiences. Using a great work ethic and solid base in Change Management and Operational excellence, you will support initiatives and / or be part of a team of experts that delivers value across the organization.

You will work closely with business stakeholders, and other relevant colleagues either as a peer, coach, project/workstream lead, or subject matter lead, to align on needs, create the business case for change, priorities, execute, and implement business goals to realization.

Responsibilities:

As Organizational Change Manager, you will play a variety of roles according to your experience, knowledge, and general requirements, such as:

• Applying a structured methodology to drive change management, training, adoption and communications activities related to major transformation projects and initiatives;
• Providing support to align vision, values and culture through targeted change efforts, sponsor commitment, leadership alignment, stakeholder engagement and other strategic interventions;
• Creating holistic change management strategies and integrating change management activities into project plans, including assessing the change impact related to planned developments and creating actionable deliverables for the five change management levers (communication plan, sponsor roadmap, coaching plan, training plan, resistance management plan);
• Executing and sustaining customer-focused communication & engagement efforts that supports overall adoption strategy to build awareness and understanding of changes with leaders and employees, that includes building and delivering presentations to targeted business audiences as needed (e.g., status reports, workstream plans, summary of organizational impacts, educational material);
• Supporting the Team’s development of and improvement of methodologies for complex initiatives such as Service Design, Make vs Buy, Organizational Transformation, behavioral change and pilot new technology and AI driven changes for efficiency in delivery;
• Advocating and accelerating the advancement of change management methodologies, and structured approaches for managing major transformation initiatives You will work within the broader team and GP networks and squads to determine the other various roles needed to deliver project and foundational work.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• University degree, with a business degree preferable
• Have 5+ years within HR Operations, project management, or management consulting, and ideally in a matrix organization
• Demonstrated in-depth conceptual and practical knowledge of advanced project management frameworks and organizational change management principles, tools and methodologies such as PROSCI

Additional Assets:

• A strong experience in driving Transformation and Change Management projects
• A solid background in developing and implementing Change Management strategies
• A solid understanding of how people go through change and the underlying change process
• Further education in coaching is a big plus
• The ability to communicate concepts, core ideas and effectively negotiate with others to adopt a different point of view, approach, or endorse/use proposal/solution
• Agile project delivery basic understanding of concepts (with willingness to try to apply)
• You are data driven in your thinking and actions
• Business level fluency in English (German may be beneficial for certain positions, any other additional language is a plus)

IMAX is proud to be an equal opportunity employer!

At IMAX you will be part of a culture built on respect - one that recognizes the unique talents of everyone on the team. We're proud of the differences that make us all unique and we support unity, acceptance, and equal rights for all. Diversity and inclusion among our employees are critical to our success as a global company.

For consideration, please apply online. We thank all applicants for their interest in IMAX but only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Please note, IMAX is currently operating in-office 5 days-a-week. Additionally, all permanent full-time employment is subject to background and employment/reference checks.