Change & Enablement Lead

Company Overview:

Headquartered in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, Artivion, Inc. is a medical device company focused on developing simple, elegant solutions that address cardiac and vascular surgeons' most difficult challenges in treating patients with aortic diseases. Artivion's four major groups of products include: aortic stent grafts, surgical sealants, On-X mechanical heart valves, and implantable cardiac and vascular human tissues. Artivion has over 1,400 employees worldwide with sales representation in over 100 countries. The Company has manufacturing facilities located in Atlanta, Georgia, Austin, Texas and Hechingen, Germany. Additionally, it has sales and distribution offices in various countries throughout Europe, Asia, and South America. For additional information about Artivion, visit our website, www.artivion.com.

Position Overview:

The Change and Enablement Lead is accountable for establishing the enterprise standards, frameworks, and governance for change management, communications, and enablement across the organization. This role ensures that transformation initiatives are supported by consistent, high-quality change practices and that delivery teams are properly resourced, guided, and held accountable for adoption outcomes. This role will sets expectations, approves approaches, coaches delivery teams, and provides executive oversight to ensure changes are implemented effectively, sustainably, and in alignment with regulatory and operational requirements.

Responsibilities:

Enterprise Change & Enablement Framework Ownership

• Define and maintain the enterprise change and enablement framework, including:
  
  
  
  • Change impact assessment standards
  • Enablement and training approach models
  • Communications principles and cadence guidelines
  
  
  
  
• Establish minimum change requirements for Tier 1 and Tier 2 initiatives
• Ensure frameworks are pragmatic, scalable, and aligned to PMO delivery models

Governance, Oversight & Quality Assurance

• Serve as the approver and quality gate for change and enablement plans developed by program teams or vendors
• Provide portfolio-level visibility into change readiness, risks, and adoption health
• Escalate systemic risks (change saturation, under-resourcing, readiness gaps) to executive leadership

Leadership & Capability Building

• Coach program managers, business leads, and change practitioners on effective change practices
• Build and mature a distributed change capability model (embedded change leads, champions, super-users)
• Influence resourcing decisions to ensure initiatives are staffed appropriately for scale and impact

Strategic Stakeholder Partnership

• Act as a strategic advisor to Executive Sponsors, Leadership, and Functional Heads on:
  
  
  
  • Sequencing and pacing of change
  • Organizational capacity and readiness
  • Reinforcement and sustainment strategies
  
  
  
  
• Partner closely with PMO leadership to integrate change into intake, planning, and governance

Enablement & Training Strategy Oversight

• Define enterprise principles for role-based training and enablement
• Ensure training approaches align with validated processes, documentation standards, and audit expectations
• Oversee transition of training and enablement into BAU ownership post-go-live

Measurement, Adoption & Value Realization

• Define enterprise-level adoption and readiness metrics
• Review and challenge adoption reporting provided by delivery teams
• Ensure adoption outcomes are considered alongside schedule, cost, and scope in portfolio decision-making

Qualifications:

Educational Background

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Organizational Change Management, Information Systems, Human Resources, Engineering, or a related field.
• Advanced degree (MBA, MS, or equivalent) preferred.

Professional Experience

• 8-12+ years of experience in enterprise change management, transformation enablement, or program leadership roles.
• Demonstrated experience designing and institutionalizing change management frameworks, standards, and operating models across multiple initiatives.
• Proven track record operating in matrixed, global organizations, influencing senior leaders and delivery teams without direct authority.
• Experience supporting or governing large-scale IT, digital, or operational transformation programs (ERP, eQMS, MES, Data, Infrastructure).
• Strong background in regulated environments (medical device, life sciences, pharma, or manufacturing strongly preferred).
• Experience working within or alongside a PMO or Transformation Office, with exposure to portfolio governance and enterprise prioritization.

Skills and Competencies

• Deep expertise in change management principles, methodologies, and governance models (enterprise-scale, not project-only).
• Ability to set standards, review and approve deliverables, and ensure consistency and quality across distributed teams.
• Strong strategic thinking skills with the ability to translate ambiguity into clear expectations, guardrails, and decisions.