Change Communication Specialist
McKinsey & Company
Lisbon, Portugal
Posted on Jan 17, 2026
Change Communication Specialist
Job ID: 102340
Do you want to work on complex and pressing challenges—the kind that bring together curious, ambitious, and determined leaders who strive to become better every day? If this sounds like you, you’ve come to the right place.
Your Impact
As a Change Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in driving measurable change outcomes by fostering adoption, engagement, and mindset shifts across Visual Graphics & Media (VG&M) and our organization.
You will focus on managing the people side of change, ensuring that business processes, systems, and technologies, are embraced effectively. Your ability to collaborate with stakeholders, define success metrics, and create impactful resources will enable sustainable change and deliver tangible results.
As a Change Management Specialist, you will lead impactful initiatives that drive organizational success. In this role, you will design and implement strategies to address process improvements, cultural shifts, and behavioral changes needed to achieve business goals. You will lead adoption efforts to maximize engagement, minimize resistance, and accelerate value creation while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure successful rollouts.
Key responsibilities include developing engaging materials, facilitating workshops and roadshows, and leveraging data insights to inform strategies and enhance the change experience. Owning the end-to-end change journey, you will align initiatives with business objectives and deliver measurable outcomes.
Your Growth
You are someone who thrives in a high-performance environment, bringing a growth mindset and entrepreneurial spirit to tackle meaningful challenges that have a real impact.
In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we’ll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities to help you quickly broaden your expertise, grow into a well-rounded professional, and contribute to work that truly makes a difference.
When you join us, you will have:
- Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
- A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions, all while upholding our unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
- Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
- Exceptional benefits: In addition to a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, mental health, and vision coverage for you, your spouse/partner, and children.
Your qualifications and skills
- Bachelor’s degree in communication, journalism/public relations, marketing, business, or related field is a plus
- 3+ years of professional experience in change management (Influence Model, ProSci ADKAR or other certification is a plus)
- Proven ability to drive change outcomes through measurable impact and expertise in creating resources and strategies that enable adoption and foster collaboration
- A results-oriented mindset with a focus on continuous improvement and value delivery
- Excellent organizational and project management skills, strong problem-solver, emerging strong judgement, strategic thinking
- Ability to create a strong reputation and credibility with organizational stakeholders and with customer teams
- Excellent ability to collaboratively work with diverse stakeholder groups with exceptional listening and syndication skills
- Flexibility to travel, attend events as required and to work, if needed outside of standard office hours
- Exceptional English communication skills with proven ability to create clear, concise, and impactful messages for a broad range of audiences
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FOR U.S. APPLICANTS: McKinsey & Company is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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LinkedIn Job Title - Change Communication Specialist
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LinkedIn Industry - Design;Writing and Editing
LinkedIn Seniority Level - Mid-Senior level