Change Management Lead - Life Sciences

Pharma/Lifesciences experience is preferred but not mandatory.

Looking for an experienced change management lead to own end-to-end change organizational & technology change environment. The programme is complex, with many moving parts, ambiguity, and tight timelines. The role covers the full change agenda, from strategy through to adoption and embedding, across a broad and senior stakeholder landscape.

Key responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end change strategy and delivery for an operating model/Digital transformation.
• Conduct change impact assessments across roles, ways of working, and stakeholder groups.
• Engage and influence senior stakeholders across a complex, matrixed environment.
• Identify and manage adoption barriers, resistance, and competing priorities.
• Design and deliver communications, engagement, and adoption activities.
• Define and track change measures to assess adoption, effectiveness, and readiness.
• Embed sustainable change so new ways of working are adopted and maintained beyond go-live.
• Maintain momentum through clear structure and reporting under tight timelines.
• Enabling strategies for managing resistance

Skills and experience

• Proven track record leading change end-to-end for large-scale operating model or organisational transformation.
• Experience running change impact assessments and translating findings into actionable plans.
• Strong senior stakeholder management and influencing skills in matrixed settings.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and evolving requirements while holding to timelines.
• Able to simplify complexity and drive clarity on roles, accountabilities, and outcomes.
• Experience defining change measurement and effectiveness metrics, with a focus on sustainable adoption.
• Strong facilitation and executive communication skills.
• Prosci or equivalent CM certification preferred.
• R&D, pharmaceutical, or life sciences experience preferred.