Strategic Initiatives - Business Change Management Lead Kestra Financial - 2.9 Austin, TX Job Details Full-time 10 hours ago Benefits Health insurance 401(k) Tuition reimbursement Qualifications Coaching Risk mitigation strategy development Operations transformation Change management support (employee development activity) Project leadership Project stakeholder communication Stakeholder relationship building Full Job Description Bluespring Wealth Partners (Bluespring) is part of Kestra Holdings, an industry-leading wealth management platform for independent financial professionals nationwide. Bluespring acquires successful, growing wealth management businesses from inside and outside of the Kestra Holdings ecosystem, promoting advisor autonomy and entrepreneurship while providing operation scale and efficiencies for its partner firms. Our advisor-focused culture is built on innovation and advocacy, enabling advisors to offer comprehensive securities and investment advisory solutions to their clients. Lead with Purpose. Partner with Impact. The Change Management Lead will build and lead Bluespring Wealth Partners' enterprise change management capability. This hands-on role will establish practical standards, tools, governance, communications, training, and adoption measures that help corporate teams and partner firms implement change successfully. The role supports enterprise transformation, technology commonality, integrations, operating model changes, and process improvements while protecting the advisor, employee, and client experience. The ideal candidate can create a scalable capability from the ground up, influence without direct authority, and balance enterprise consistency with the operating realities of independent partner firms. What you'll

Do:

Build the change management function: Establish a pragmatic organizational change management methodology, governance model, service approach, playbooks, templates, intake criteria, and reusable tools.

Lead change delivery:

Develop and execute change strategies for major transformations, technology implementations, integrations, commonality programs, and process or operating model changes.

Assess impact and readiness:

Conduct stakeholder, change impact, readiness, capacity, and risk assessments; translate findings into clear actions, owners, milestones, and escalation needs.

Enable adoption:

Create integrated plans for communications, engagement, training, manager enablement, resistance management, go-live readiness, reinforcement, and sustainment.

Advise leaders and sponsors:

Align leaders on the case for change, decisions, messages, expected behaviors, and sponsorship actions; provide concise briefings and decision-ready updates.

Manage the change portfolio:

Maintain visibility into major initiatives, affected audiences, timing, dependencies, organizational capacity, and change saturation; recommend sequencing and mitigation actions.

Engage partner firms and advisors:

Tailor adoption approaches by stakeholder needs, business model, geography, technology environment, and readiness while clearly distinguishing enterprise standards from areas of flexibility. Build and support a Change Champion network: Equip champions across partner firms and corporate functions with messaging, tools, training, feedback channels, and escalation paths.

Measure adoption and value:

Define a focused set of readiness, proficiency, utilization, compliance, sentiment, sustainability, and outcome measures; use results to identify corrective actions and improve future delivery.

Build organizational capability:

Coach sponsors, managers, project teams, and change practitioners; maintain reusable assets and incorporate lessons learned into the enterprise approach.

KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

Executive sponsors; Business Operations & Integrations; partner-firm leaders and advisors; Platform Innovation & Operations; Technology; Compliance; Human Resources; Finance; Marketing and Communications; project and program leaders; external consultants; and Kestra Holdings shared-service partners.

What You Bring:

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience. 7+ years of progressive experience in organizational change management, business transformation, organizational effectiveness, program management, consulting, or a related discipline. Demonstrated experience creating enterprise change strategies, governance, standards, and reusable tools, and applying them to large-scale technology, integration, operating model, or process initiatives. Ability to assess stakeholder impacts, readiness, resistance, adoption risks, and sustainment needs and convert findings into practical delivery plans. Strong executive communication, facilitation, coaching, influencing, and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to influence without direct authority. Ability to manage multiple priorities, work across corporate and field-based teams, and connect adoption measures to business outcomes.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Prosci Change Management Practitioner, CCMP, or equivalent credential; complementary program or process improvement certification is a plus. Experience in wealth management, registered investment advisory, financial services, FinTech, or professional services. Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, post-acquisition integrations, technology migrations, organization redesign, or operational commonality programs. Experience building a change management function, Center of Excellence, or enterprise change portfolio from inception. Familiarity with advisor technology, CRM, client portals, portfolio and trading platforms, or data transformation.

SUCCESS IN THIS ROLE A

repeatable, right-sized Bluespring change framework is used consistently across priority initiatives. Leaders and initiative teams have timely visibility into readiness, capacity, resistance, adoption risk, and required interventions. Communications, training, and engagement are targeted to stakeholder needs and support measurable proficiency and adoption. Partner-firm and advisor feedback is gathered, themes are addressed transparently, and disruption is actively managed. Post-implementation insights, reusable assets, and adoption results improve the speed and quality of future change efforts.

Internal Application Policy:

Internal applicants must be in good standing and have a minimum of 1 year of service with Kestra. Internal applicants must also have a minimum of 1 year service in current role unless approved by EVP.

Benefits to support you:

Competitive pay and benefits with a large employer (over 1600 employees nationwide) 401(k), health insurance, and a competitive benefits package Work in a supportive, collaborative environment committed to professional excellence Help clients navigate meaningful financial decisions with confidence Opportunities for training, development, and long-term growth within the firm Tuition reimbursement for qualified expenses

Kestra Values:

Our Mission is Powering Financial Independence, enabling the growth and success of investing clients and the advisors who serve them. We do that by living our values: Serve, Make it Happen, and One team. Explore Life at

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