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At Zurich Cover-More, we’re proud to be one of the world’s leading travel insurance and assistance providers. Each year, we protect more than 20 million travellers worldwide, making sure we’re there every step of their journey with proactive care, personalized cover and specialist support. Zurich Cover-More partners with many of the world’s best-known brands – think major airlines, travel giants, top banks, credit card providers, and large retailers – to deliver more care, more cover, for all.
Launched in December 2024, Zurich Cover-More is the global travel brand of Zurich Insurance Group, one of the world’s leading multi-line insurers. Our family of customer-facing brands includes trusted names like Travel Guard, Cover-More Travel Insurance, Travelex Insurance, Universal Assistance, World Travel Protection, Freely, and Blue Insurance. Together, we’re redefining what it means to travel safely and with confidence. Whether it’s a long-awaited holiday, a last-minute business trip, or an unexpected detour, we deliver in the moments that matter.
About the opportunity:
At Zurich Cover-More, we're on an ambitious transformation journey – we’re launching Project Sirius, a major program designed to modernize our technology, processes, customer experiences, and ways of working across our business. We're seeking an experienced Change Lead to drive the people side of this transformation across North America. In this role, you'll partner with business leaders, product teams, operations, technology teams, and global stakeholders to ensure our people, partners, and processes are ready to successfully adopt new capabilities and deliver lasting business outcomes. If you're passionate about leading organizational change, influencing senior stakeholders, and helping teams navigate complex technology transformation, we'd love to hear from you. This is a contract role until 31 December 2028.
Please note this role can be remote, however candidates must be located in the Central or Eastern Time Zone of the USA.
What you’ll be doing:
- Develop and execute an integrated change strategy aligned with the global transformation roadmap.
- Assess impacts across people, processes, systems, customer journeys, and partner interactions.
- Lead stakeholder engagement activities, sponsor alignment, and change champion networks.
- Drive adoption of shared global processes while balancing regional business requirements.
- Prepare teams for significant changes spanning digital customer experiences, case management, claims, policy servicing, automation, data, and reporting.
- Shape communications, learning, and readiness activities to support successful implementation.
- Partner with business leaders to define future ways of working and identify capability gaps.
- Assess readiness for major releases and provide recommendations for go-live decisions.
- Measure adoption, gather feedback, and implement actions that embed sustainable change.
- Support the introduction of automation, AI, and process transformation initiatives by helping teams adapt to new roles, skills, controls, and workflows.
What skills and experience you’ll bring on this journey:
- A strong track record leading organizational change for large-scale technology or business transformation programs.
- Experience developing change strategies, impact assessments, stakeholder plans, communications, training, and readiness frameworks.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, including experience partnering with senior leaders.
- Experience operating across complex, multi-stakeholder environments with global and regional teams.
- The ability to simplify complex change into practical, engaging, and actionable messages.
- Experience measuring adoption, organizational readiness, and business outcomes.
- Knowledge of structured change methodologies such as Prosci ADKAR or equivalent.
- Experience working within agile, waterfall, or hybrid delivery environments.
- A relevant degree or equivalent professional experience.
Why you’ll love working with us!
We value optimism, caring, togetherness, reliability, results-orientation, and forward-thinking.
We have more than 3000 employees worldwide. We are a global group of digital specialists, actuaries, marketers, doctors, nurses, case managers, claims specialists, finance experts, customer service and corporate services professionals. We share a global purpose to look after travellers, at every step of their journey.
Job flexibility. We understand the importance of making sure that work fits into your life, not the other way around. Our hybrid approach ensures you can maintain work-life balance with the flexibility of 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home.
Career growth. This is an extremely exciting time for us at Zurich Cover-More, as we rapidly expand our business across the globe. We’re committed to helping our people thrive through a comprehensive onboarding experience, continuous professional development, and a supportive work environment that empowers growth at every stage of your career.
Take the time you need, for you and your community. We encourage you to take the time you need when you need it. We offer regular annual and personal leave benefits along with anniversary leave, volunteer leave and a comprehensive paid parental leave scheme.
Travel and work with us. We believe your career should take you places – literally. At Zurich Cover-More, we support your professional journey and your passion for travel with complimentary travel insurance. So go ahead, start planning your next adventure today!
Diversity and inclusion. We respect who you are and thoroughly embrace diversity. Wherever life has taken you, we welcome you to bring your whole self to work. Just be you – because that’s exactly who we’re looking for.
Apply today and let’s go to great places together!
At Zurich Cover-More, compensation for roles is influenced by a variety of factors, including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. In compliance with local laws, Zurich commits to providing a fair and reasonable compensation range for each role. For more information about our Total Rewards, please click here. Additional rewards may encompass short-term incentive bonuses and merit increases. We encourage candidates with salary expectations beyond the provided range to apply as they will be considered based on their experience, skills, and education.
The compensation indicated represents a nationwide market range and has not been adjusted for geographic differentials pertaining to the location where the position may be filled. The proposed salary range for this position is $102,560 - $153,840.
Where will your career take you next? Let’s find out together.
At Zurich Cover-More, we’re proud to be one of the world’s leading travel insurance and assistance providers. Each year, we protect more than 20 million travellers worldwide, making sure we’re there every step of their journey with proactive care, personalized cover and specialist support. Zurich Cover-More partners with many of the world’s best-known brands – think major airlines, travel giants, top banks, credit card providers, and large retailers – to deliver more care, more cover, for all.
Launched in December 2024, Zurich Cover-More is the global travel brand of Zurich Insurance Group, one of the world’s leading multi-line insurers. Our family of customer-facing brands includes trusted names like Travel Guard, Cover-More Travel Insurance, Travelex Insurance, Universal Assistance, World Travel Protection, Freely, and Blue Insurance. Together, we’re redefining what it means to travel safely and with confidence. Whether it’s a long-awaited holiday, a last-minute business trip, or an unexpected detour, we deliver in the moments that matter.
About the opportunity:
At Zurich Cover-More, we're on an ambitious transformation journey – we’re launching Project Sirius, a major program designed to modernize our technology, processes, customer experiences, and ways of working across our business. We're seeking an experienced Change Lead to drive the people side of this transformation across North America. In this role, you'll partner with business leaders, product teams, operations, technology teams, and global stakeholders to ensure our people, partners, and processes are ready to successfully adopt new capabilities and deliver lasting business outcomes. If you're passionate about leading organizational change, influencing senior stakeholders, and helping teams navigate complex technology transformation, we'd love to hear from you. This is a contract role until 31 December 2028.
Please note this role can be remote, however candidates must be located in the Central or Eastern Time Zone of the USA.
What you’ll be doing:
- Develop and execute an integrated change strategy aligned with the global transformation roadmap.
- Assess impacts across people, processes, systems, customer journeys, and partner interactions.
- Lead stakeholder engagement activities, sponsor alignment, and change champion networks.
- Drive adoption of shared global processes while balancing regional business requirements.
- Prepare teams for significant changes spanning digital customer experiences, case management, claims, policy servicing, automation, data, and reporting.
- Shape communications, learning, and readiness activities to support successful implementation.
- Partner with business leaders to define future ways of working and identify capability gaps.
- Assess readiness for major releases and provide recommendations for go-live decisions.
- Measure adoption, gather feedback, and implement actions that embed sustainable change.
- Support the introduction of automation, AI, and process transformation initiatives by helping teams adapt to new roles, skills, controls, and workflows.
What skills and experience you’ll bring on this journey:
- A strong track record leading organizational change for large-scale technology or business transformation programs.
- Experience developing change strategies, impact assessments, stakeholder plans, communications, training, and readiness frameworks.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, including experience partnering with senior leaders.
- Experience operating across complex, multi-stakeholder environments with global and regional teams.
- The ability to simplify complex change into practical, engaging, and actionable messages.
- Experience measuring adoption, organizational readiness, and business outcomes.
- Knowledge of structured change methodologies such as Prosci ADKAR or equivalent.
- Experience working within agile, waterfall, or hybrid delivery environments.
- A relevant degree or equivalent professional experience.
Why you’ll love working with us!
We value optimism, caring, togetherness, reliability, results-orientation, and forward-thinking.
We have more than 3000 employees worldwide. We are a global group of digital specialists, actuaries, marketers, doctors, nurses, case managers, claims specialists, finance experts, customer service and corporate services professionals. We share a global purpose to look after travellers, at every step of their journey.
Job flexibility. We understand the importance of making sure that work fits into your life, not the other way around. Our hybrid approach ensures you can maintain work-life balance with the flexibility of 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home.
Career growth. This is an extremely exciting time for us at Zurich Cover-More, as we rapidly expand our business across the globe. We’re committed to helping our people thrive through a comprehensive onboarding experience, continuous professional development, and a supportive work environment that empowers growth at every stage of your career.
Take the time you need, for you and your community. We encourage you to take the time you need when you need it. We offer regular annual and personal leave benefits along with anniversary leave, volunteer leave and a comprehensive paid parental leave scheme.
Travel and work with us. We believe your career should take you places – literally. At Zurich Cover-More, we support your professional journey and your passion for travel with complimentary travel insurance. So go ahead, start planning your next adventure today!
Diversity and inclusion. We respect who you are and thoroughly embrace diversity. Wherever life has taken you, we welcome you to bring your whole self to work. Just be you – because that’s exactly who we’re looking for.
Apply today and let’s go to great places together!
At Zurich Cover-More, compensation for roles is influenced by a variety of factors, including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. In compliance with local laws, Zurich commits to providing a fair and reasonable compensation range for each role. For more information about our Total Rewards, please click here. Additional rewards may encompass short-term incentive bonuses and merit increases. We encourage candidates with salary expectations beyond the provided range to apply as they will be considered based on their experience, skills, and education.
The compensation indicated represents a nationwide market range and has not been adjusted for geographic differentials pertaining to the location where the position may be filled. The proposed salary range for this position is $102,560 - $153,840.
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Frame your credentials around specialty occupation
USCIS scrutinizes Change Management Lead petitions for degree-to-role alignment. Document how your organizational development, business administration, or psychology degree directly supports the specific change initiatives in your job description, not just management duties in general.
Target employers with cap-exempt filing options
Universities, research institutions, and nonprofit affiliates attached to higher education can file H-1B petitions outside the annual lottery cap. Change Management Leads in higher-ed transformation or research operations roles can bypass the cap entirely and start sooner.
Use Migrate Mate to filter verified H-1B sponsors
Search Change Management Lead openings on Migrate Mate to see which employers have active LCA filing history for this role, so you're only pursuing companies that have already committed to H-1B sponsorship rather than guessing from job descriptions.
Pull prevailing wage data before negotiating your offer
Your employer's LCA must certify a wage at or above the DOL prevailing level for your job zone and location. Run the OFLC Wage Search for SOC code 13-1198 before your offer conversation so you know the floor your employer must meet.
Prepare for RFEs on specialty occupation grounds
Change management is a field where USCIS frequently issues Requests for Evidence questioning whether the role genuinely requires a specific bachelor's degree. Collect job postings from comparable employers and your O*NET occupation profile showing theoretical and practical application requirements before your petition is filed.
Confirm your employer's I-9 process before your start date
If your employer participates in E-Verify, your employment authorization is confirmed electronically within three business days of your start date. Ask HR whether they use E-Verify and whether premium processing was elected, since that affects when you can legally begin work.
H-1B Visa Change Management Lead: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Change Management Lead role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, if the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific field such as organizational development, business administration, industrial-organizational psychology, or a related discipline. Generic management duties alone won't satisfy the specialty occupation standard, so the job description must tie the theoretical knowledge of your degree directly to the change management work performed.
Which industries sponsor H-1B visas most often for Change Management Lead roles?
Large-scale technology, healthcare systems, financial services, and management consulting firms generate the most H-1B LCA filings for change management positions because enterprise-wide transformation projects require sustained, credentialed leadership. Government contractors and higher-education institutions also sponsor these roles, and the latter can file outside the annual lottery cap entirely. You can browse verified sponsoring employers on Migrate Mate.
Can I transfer my H-1B to a new employer if my Change Management Lead contract ends?
Yes. Under H-1B portability rules established by AC21, you can transfer your petition to a new employer and begin working as soon as the new petition is filed, provided your previous H-1B was approved and you've been maintaining valid status. The new employer must file a new I-129 and LCA covering the Change Management Lead role before your last day.
How does DOL's prevailing wage requirement affect Change Management Lead H-1B filings?
Before USCIS can approve your H-1B petition, your employer must obtain a certified Labor Condition Application from DOL confirming the offered wage meets or exceeds the prevailing wage for your occupation, job level, and work location. For Change Management Lead roles, wage levels vary significantly by metro area. Use the OFLC Wage Search with SOC code 13-1198 to verify what your employer is required to pay before you sign an offer.
What happens to my H-1B status if my Change Management Lead project is completed and my role is eliminated?
You have a 60-day grace period after your H-1B employment ends to find a new sponsoring employer, change to another visa status, or depart the country. If a new employer files an H-1B transfer petition within that 60-day window, you can begin work once the petition is received by USCIS. Acting quickly matters because the grace period isn't automatically extended.