Supervisor, Change Management
Date: Mar 6, 2026
Location: Chicago, IL, US, 60607
Company: McDonald's Corporation
Company Description:
McDonald’s is proud to be one of the most recognized brands in the world, with restaurants in over 100 countries that serve 70 million customers daily. We continue to operate from a position of strength. Our updated growth strategy is focused on staying ahead of what our customers want and realizing further growth potential. Our relentless ambition is why McDonald’s remains one of the world’s leading corporations after almost 70 years. Joining McDonald's means thinking big and preparing for a career that can have influence around the world.
At McDonald’s, we see every day as a chance to create positive impact. We lead through our values centered on inclusivity, service, integrity, community and family. From support of Ronald McDonald House Charities to our Youth Opportunity project and sustainability initiatives, our values keep us dedicated to using our scale for good: good for our customers, people, industry and planet. We also offer a broad range of outstanding benefits including a sabbatical program, tuition assistance and flexible work arrangements.
Job Description
The Supervisor, Change Management plays a critical role in enabling organisational transformation by supporting senior leaders in driving change. This role focuses on applying frameworks, best practices, measurement, communications, and coordination to ensure effective implementation and continuous improvement of McDonald’s execution of change.
Reporting to the Director, Strategic Change & Innovation, you will be an integral part of the global Change & Organisational Activation (OA) Centre of Excellence.
The position offers health and welfare benefits, including but not limited to comprehensive health insurance, which includes medical, prescription drug, mental health, dental and vision coverage, as well as, life insurance.
Primary Responsibilities
Support Evolution of Change Framework (‘Rules, Schools and Tools’)
- Seek feedback to ensure frameworks remain current and effective in partnership with Change Operations.
- Collaborate on updates to templates and tools to maintain consistency and usability.
Identify Best Practice and Drive Innovation
- Research industry standards and emerging trends in change management and organisational activation.
- Prepare briefing materials and presentations for senior leaders on change innovation.
- Partner with Change Operations to incorporate emerging trends into the Change & OA Framework.
Monitor and Report on Change Volume Across the Enterprise
- Maintain a central record of change initiatives and their impact level.
- Prepare summary reports for senior stakeholders on change activity volume and impact.
- Use enterprise-wide insights to inform the overarching transformation narrative in collaboration with Global Communications.
Support the development of the Modernising McDonald’s narrative
- Partner with the global comms team to provide input into the narrative on transformational change
- Act as a sounding board for the global comms team on the transformation narrative to ensure relevance for market audiences.
Enable Enterprise Change Capability
- Support knowledge-sharing sessions and learning series for partners and leaders.
- Advise and coach functional leaders on key Change Management decisions (e.g. strategy, execution, and measurement) to ensure alignment with McDonald’s change methodology.
- Maintain and enhance templates, tools, and best practices for change delivery.
Qualifications
The ideal applicant will have exposure to Global Change Management initiatives in a consulting or inhouse environment. You will have a flexible approach, flowing to priority work and the complexity of global change programmes.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, Human Resources, or related field highly desirable.
- PROSCI, ADKAR or equivalent change management certification
- Experience with change methodologies and delivering change initiatives at a global scale.
- Desire to learn, curious in approach and resilient to competing priorities.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills; self-starter with collaborative mindset.
- Comfortable working with a level of ambiguity
- Experience driving continuous improvement and best practices.
- Excellent verbal and written skills, with the ability to make the complicated simple
- Proficiency in MS Word, PowerPoint, and collaboration tools.
Salary Range
The expected salary range for this role is $93,208.00 - $116,510.00 per year
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we may also consider your experience, and other job-related factors.
Additional Information:
Benefits eligible: This position offers health and welfare benefits, a 401(k) plan, adoption assistance program, educational assistance program, flexible ways of working, and time off policies (including sick leave, parental leave, and vacation/PTO). Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on job classification and length of employment.
Bonus eligible: This position is eligible for a bonus, calculated based on individual and company performance.
McDonald’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our workforce. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone. McDonald’s provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities as part of the application or hiring process or to perform the essential functions of their job. If you need assistance accessing or reading this job posting or otherwise feel you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process, please contact mcdhrbenefits@us.mcd.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
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