Senior Change Manager (Freelance) - 12-18 Month Contract

TOMRA Food is a multinational organisation and a leading provider of sensor-based sorting, peeling and integrated post-harvest solution for the food industries. Transforming global food production to maximise food safety and minimise food loss by making sure Every Resource Counts™, has been our strength for over 50 years.

At TOMRA, we want people to innovate, show passion in their work and be responsible. We encourage the freedom to innovate and take risks that result in breakthroughs that challenge the status quo. We value passion that focuses and commits to meeting success. We believe in a responsible and safe mindset that takes care of our customers, products, and fellow employees.

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Global ERP Transformation | 12-18 Month Contract

As part of an ambitious five-year strategic growth programme, TOMRA Food is delivering a major global ERP transformation. We’re looking for a Senior Change Manager in our office in Leuven to lead the people and adoption workstream across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific.

This is a hands-on delivery role, not advisory. You will be embedded within the programme, working closely with program and project management, and senior stakeholders across finance, manufacturing and sales to ensure new ERP-enabled processes are adopted and sustained.

This is a long-term freelance engagement on a high-profile, business-critical transformation programme.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and deliver the Change Management strategy for IFS Cloud / IFS Applications programmes.
• Conduct organisational impact assessments and define structured change, communication and adoption plans
• Work in close coordination with system integrator-provided and local change management resources, aligning approaches, coordinating activities and ensuring a consistent, integrated change effort across the programme.
• Collaborate with IFS programme leadership, functional leads and business stakeholders globally.
• Drive user readiness and adoption through targeted change initiatives.
• Align closely with training, data migration, testing, and deployment workstreams.
• Develop and execute communication plans, stakeholder messaging and engagement activities.
• Identify resistance, change risks and adoption challenges, implementing mitigation strategies.
• Support go-live, hypercare and post–go-live stabalisation activities.
• Define and track adoption metrics, reporting on change effectiveness and business readiness.

About You:

• Proven experience delivering change management on large-scale ERP programmes (IFS experience highly desirable).
• Strong understanding of ERP Cloud Applications environments.
• Experience supporting business transformation and process change.
• Hands-on delivery of change, communication and adoption strategies.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Comfortable working independently in global, remote, or hybrid project environments.
• Fluent in English

Desirable Experience:

• Direct experience with IFS Cloud roll-outs.
• Knowledge of structured change frameworks (e.g., Prosci, ADKAR).
• Exposure to training strategies, user enablment, or power user training models.
• Experience in multi-country or multi-entity ERP programmes.
• Background in manufacturing and/or service-driven organisations.

How to Apply:

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you! All applications will be managed in the strictest confidence.  

TOMRA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, parental or pregnancy status, marriage and civil partnership, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristics. Reasonable accommodations will be made and will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.