Change Manager - Data

Job Description
Role:
Change & Communications Manager (Data)
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 R&D and Drug development.
Understanding of Operational Model development and can help support that.
Understands Data, Standards and modelling and uses.
Awareness of Digital transformation
Understands Change and how to make sustainable implementations.
Understands how to make and deliver effective communications.
Strong understanding of successful Digital Transformation and implementing new operating models/ ways of working.
Expertise in developing comms strategies, with a consistent record of delivering impactful interventions in a busy change landscape.
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.
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.