About HOYA
Founded in 1941 in Tokyo, Japan, Hoya is a global med-tech company, and a leading supplier of innovative high-tech and medical products. Hoya is active in the fields of healthcare and information technology providing eyeglasses, medical endoscopes, intraocular lenses, optical lenses as well as key components for semiconductor devices, LCD panels and HDDs. With about 160 offices and subsidiaries worldwide, Hoya currently employs a multinational workforce of about 38,000 people.
Job Summary
This role plays a strategic and enabling role in shaping how Organizational Change Management is designed, governed, and scaled across the enterprise.
As part of the central Hub in a Hub & Spoke operating model, the OCM Specialist is responsible not only for supporting execution, but also for defining enterpriselevel OCM strategies including direction, priorities and decision frameworks.
The role partners closely with leadership, functions, and divisions to ensure that change initiatives are strategically aligned, sequenced, and sustainable, while enabling effective local execution through clear standards, governance, and capability building.
Key Responsibilities:
OCM Strategy, Framework & Governance (Enterprise / Hub Role)
- Shape and evolve the enterprise OCM strategy and operating model, ensuring alignment with overall transformation priorities and ways of working.
- Define, maintain, and continuously improve the common OCM framework covering change impact, stakeholder management, communication, training, and adoption metrics.
- Establish and govern OCM minimum standards (nonnegotiables) and decision guardrails, embedding them into project governance, portfolio reviews, and delivery lifecycle checkpoints.
- Provide portfoliolevel and enterprisewide visibility of change impacts (what, who, when), supporting informed decisionmaking and prioritization.
- Contribute to executivelevel discussions and reporting by translating OCM data into insights on adoption risks, capacity constraints, and readiness.
Strategic Change Impact & Portfolio Planning
- Lead or facilitate change impact assessments for major programs and initiatives, connecting individual project impacts to broader enterprise change load and capacity.
- Advise leadership and project sponsors on change prioritization, sequencing, and tradeoffs to minimize fatigue and maximize adoption.
- Support divisions in aligning local OCM plans with enterprise direction while allowing flexibility for business context.
- Act as a thought partner in identifying systemic change risks and proposing mitigation strategies at portfolio level.
Enablement & Capability Building
- Design and drive the OCM capabilitybuilding approach across divisions, including role clarity for OCM focal points.
- Develop and maintain scalable OCM assets (templates, playbooks, tools) that support consistent execution without overengineering.
- Support and coown the OCM Community of Practice as a strategic platform for knowledge sharing, alignment, and maturity uplift.
- Promote a mindset where OCM is positioned as a core business capability, not a projectbyproject activity.
Monitoring, Adoption & Continuous Improvement
- Define and track enterpriselevel OCM KPIs and success measures, focusing on adoption, readiness, and sustainability.
- Monitor trends, risks, and bottlenecks across initiatives, escalating insights rather than only issues.
- Drive continuous improvement of the OCM model based on lessons learned, feedback, and maturity assessments.
- Contribute to futurestate OCM roadmap definition and evolution.
Crossfunctional & Crossregional Collaboration
- Act as a trusted strategic partner to Group Digital functions, divisional teams, and project leaders across regions.
- Balance consistency and governance with pragmatic flexibility for local execution.
- Influence stakeholders without formal authority, supporting alignment and shared ownership of change outcomes.
- Reinforce a culture where effective change management is an expected leadership and delivery standard.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Organizational Development, Human Resources, Psychology, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 3 - 5 years of experience in Organizational Change Management, transformation programs, or related roles.
- Experience supporting complex, multiinitiative or portfoliolevel change environments.
- Strong understanding of OCM components and how they support strategic outcomes, not only execution.
- Ability to work in a structured yet pragmatic way, avoiding overengineering.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work with multicultural, crossregional teams.
- Strong ownership, selfmanagement, and ability to work with limited central resources.
Preferred Skills & Experience
- Experience working in a Hub & Spoke or CoE operating model.
- Exposure to largescale digital, IT, or business transformation programs.
- Familiarity with OCM methodologies (e.g., Prosci, Kotter), with the ability to apply them pragmatically rather than rigidly.
- Experience with reporting or tracking adoption metrics using Excel, Power BI, or similar tools.
- Experience facilitating workshops or virtual sessions with diverse stakeholder groups.
- Ability to stay positive and prioritize effectively when even handling requests with short lead time.
- Japanese business environment exposure or Japanese language skills are a plus.
