Change Manager

3 weeks ago


Cambridge, United Kingdom AstraZeneca Full time

Role: Change & Communications Manager

Role Type: Temporary – 6 Months

Location: Cambridge – Occasional Travel to Site Required / Flexible


Your New Company


Achieving AstraZeneca’s 2030 Bold Ambition to deliver 20 new medicines requires iterative transformational change in how we work across Drug Development. The unprecedented expansion of our portfolio and the rapidly changing business environment, requires sustainable, rapid and digitally enabled processes to deliver and support our 2030 Bold Ambition.


Your New Role

You will report into the Programme Lead and be able to design and implement impactful change strategies to deliver sustainable change.


  • Provide change management and communications support for major change initiative workstream(s).
  • Partner with workstream leaders and project managers to ensure successful and sustainable delivery of all aspects of the initiative.
  • Perform change impact assessments to identify key risks and resistance to successful implementation.
  • Develop and deliver on comprehensive partner engagement, communications, and training plans to address challenges and ensure project success.
  • Partner with Program Team and stakeholders to create and implement an overall communication plan and strategy for the programme.
  • Identify and define key messages to communicate the program narrative and then create key communication artefacts across multiple medias to drive transparency in support of the implementation of the Programme.
  • Create plans for assessing Business Readiness of proposed workstream changes and the measuring of adoption and success of change.
  • Support the programme and change leadership in the planning and activities related to Stakeholder Management & Engagement
  • Ensure alignment of change impact with organizational KPIs and metrics
  • Ensure that a library of key communication assets and artefacts is created and maintained
  • Identifies and works with key programme stakeholders to deliver key communication tasks – e.g.online posts and written updates, through to senior stakeholder presentations and local/ global forums and town hall support.
  • Lead work with external service providers where applicable.


Essential Skills

  • Strong Change management Skills/ understanding, with a record of delivering successful change.
  • Understanding of new technologies (such as A.I.), successful implementation and business value realisation.
  • Strong understanding of successful Digital Transformation and implementing new operating models/ ways of working.
  • Understanding of the Drug Development Process.
  • Expertise in developing comms strategies, with a consistent record of delivering impactful interventions in a busy change landscape
  • Strong networking/consulting skills with good internal/external links
  • Strong communication and relationship building skills with the ability to influence others both upward and downward to achieve objectives.
  • Ability to interpret and communicate technical information into business language and in alignment with AZ business.


Desirable Skills

  • Formal qualifications in change management and, project management methodologies
  • Experience of working in a global organisation with complex/geographical context
  • Pharmaceutical R&D experience


WHY ASTRAZENECA?


It's an exciting time to join AstraZeneca, a global business that's rapidly growing - there's a lot happening and even more to come. And we are a valued part of this journey. Respected partners across the business, we provide the platform that's going to power us to achieve more.


So, what's next?


Are you ready to bring new insights and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant We have one seat available, and we hope it's yours. Please apply with a copy of your CV.



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