Senior Change Lead – Life Sciences Change & Transformation

Overview

In this Senior Manager role, you lead people and organisational aspects of complex Life Sciences transformation programmes, translating technology, data, AI, and operating model changes into sustainable outcomes. You’ll helm end-to-end change workstreams, shape pragmatic strategies, and drive readiness, adoption and stakeholder alignment. The position is client-facing, requiring hands-on leadership and the ability to advance multiple workstreams while growing client accounts and BIP capabilities. You’ll collaborate across product, technology and process teams to embed new ways of working and create impact at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end change workstreams within Life Sciences transformation programmes, owning scope, approach and outcomes
• Develop pragmatic change strategies and roadmaps aligned to business objectives and programme delivery
• Bring structure to ambiguity by identifying priorities and interventions to maintain momentum
• Adapt change methods to client context with judgement beyond process
• Lead change impact and stakeholder assessments across people, process, technology and data
• Define readiness and adoption measures, baselines and evidence-based progress
• Design integrated plans for engagement, leadership alignment, communications, training and business readiness
• Identify adoption risks and work with leaders to remove barriers and embed new ways of working
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders as a credible adviser
• Plan and facilitate senior leadership sessions and decision forums to accelerate action
• Communicate complex issues clearly and tailor messages for audiences
• Manage expectations, risks and dependencies across client teams and third parties
• Lead change approach for technology, data and AI-enabled transformation and ensure usability in operations
• Collaborate with product, technology, data and process teams to embed changes
• Support responsible adoption of AI-enabled tools addressing governance, skills and leadership needs
• Plan and manage high-quality consulting deliverables balancing pace and rigour
• Lead, coach and quality-assure consultant teams and support their development
• Contribute to reusable methods, case studies and communities of practice
• Identify opportunities to extend impact with existing clients and support long-term relationships
• Contribute to bids, proposals and account planning to shape compelling change propositions
• Bring external life sciences market insight to support thought leadership
• Senior Manager level: take stronger role in opportunity shaping and account growth

Key requirements

• Strong Life Sciences consulting experience
• Proven track record of independently leading complex change and transformation workstreams
• Experience delivering technology, data or AI-enabled transformation in Life Sciences
• Strong capability across change impact assessment, stakeholder engagement, readiness, communications, training and adoption
• Understanding of how people, process, technology and data change deliver transformation outcomes
• Excellent senior stakeholder management, facilitation and communication skills
• Delivery mindset with ability to create structure in ambiguous environments
• Experience contributing to business development, bids, proposals or account growth

• strong stakeholder management
• facilitation and communication
• commercial awareness
• change management
• transformation delivery
• stakeholder engagement

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