Regional OD Partner, EMEA

Regional OD Partner, EMEA

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Croda is running a 2-year transformation programme to deliver £200m growth and efficiency benefits, which is highly complex, global and touches nearly all parts of the organisation. We’re looking for a Regional OD Partner to partner with leaders across the region to build capability, increase readiness, drive behavioural adoption and embed transformation activity. This role will help ensure leaders and employees are equipped, engaged and ready to adopt change through structured capability building, leadership coaching and change network enablement.

Who We’re Looking For:

• An experienced OD, change, or learning professional with a strong transformation background, able to build leadership confidence and organisational readiness through practical capability building.
• A credible coach and facilitator, comfortable supporting leaders and managers to lead change, prepare their teams and embed new ways of working.
• Someone who can identify regional capability gaps, translate transformation priorities into pragmatic action plans and support readiness ahead of key releases and milestones.
• A collaborative partner who can work effectively with regional leaders, HRDs, initiative leads, the central team and Regional Change & Comms colleagues.
• A strong communicator who can engage change champions, facilitate network meetings and escalate adoption insights, risks and resistance themes constructively.
• Someone who is naturally curious, agile and adaptable; comfortable navigating complexity and changing priorities; resilient when things are not perfectly structured; and confident operating with a high degree of autonomy. They will combine pragmatic action with the ability to look beyond immediate challenges and bring a longer-term organisational perspective.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Coach leaders and managers on leading change and adoption within their teams.
• Deliver Leading Through Change workshops, Change Chats, learning interventions, toolkits, leadership resources and enablement materials to increase regional change capability and reduce reliance on central support or external consultants.
• Provide practical support to help leaders use available resources to drive adoption and embed change.
• Facilitate leadership conversations, role-play sessions and change rehearsal activities, including the development of leader action plans linked to key transformation milestones.
• Develop and maintain Regional Change Capability Plans aligned to transformation priorities, identifying capability gaps that may impact readiness or adoption.
• Support the implementation of Central Business Readiness Assessments across impacted functions and teams in the region.
• Identify and escalate organisational readiness gaps, adoption risks and resistance themes, supporting leaders to address these through clear readiness action plans.
  Support regional readiness planning ahead of key releases and transformation milestones.
• Provide L&D guidance and input for regional transformation initiatives, aligning transformational training activities with Croda platforms and ways of working.
• Co-lead Regional Change Networks with the Regional Change & Comms Lead, supporting the recruitment, onboarding and development of network members in line with the central approach.
• Facilitate network meetings and capability sessions, providing coaching and support to change champions.

Additional Information

• This is a regional role within the OCM Team, working closely with Regional Change & Comms Leads to ensure transformation is both delivered and sustainably embedded.
• The role partners with HRDs, initiative leads, regional leaders and the central team to provide behavioural adoption, capability building, readiness and change network support.
• The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring leaders and employees are ready, willing and able to adopt change across the region.

This role can be based at any Croda site across the UK (preferred) or Europe, with flexible and remote working options available.

Why Croda?

At Croda, we believe our people are our difference. We are people-led, driven by the desire to do good and deliver value, a unifying principle shaped by all the great people that have travelled through Croda since our beginning in 1925. We pride ourselves on bringing together diverse teams and talents from across the globe and, guided by our values of Responsible, Innovative, and Together, we are passionate about building an inclusive, collaborative, and diverse organisation with innovation and customer focus underpinning all that we do.

You will play an important role in embedding a safety culture where people look out for one another, feel able to speak up, and work together to protect the health, safety and wellbeing of colleagues, communities and the environment.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the hiring process or experience any issues with our online application process, please email candidate@croda.com.

Croda is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.