Change Manager - R&D
- Brentford, Greater London (GBR)
- £675 - £700 Per Day
- 12 Months
- Start date: ASAP
- Ref: GSK0JP00091354
- change manager
- impact assessment
- fmcg
Change Manager - R&D - Consumer Healthcare
£700 per day via Umbrella
12 months
GSK Brentford / Remote
Summary
We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Change Manager to come on board to support the R&D functions of the new CH and New GSK business as they make this critical transition. The successful candidate will join the CH global change management team in a role which will partner closely with the R&D function to drive and deliver business change transition activities.
As the organisation prepares for separation, and the new Consumer Healthcare company readies itself to become a fully independent entity, the respective R&D functions have commenced multiple change initiatives and workstreams all contributing to achieving the goal of successful separation.
Key responsibilities
- Partnering with key individuals/groups within CH and New GSK R&D to support defined change initiatives by:
- Maintaining a detailed Change Impact Assessment
- Developing (and supporting the delivery of) change action plans to make the transition as smooth as possible
- Providing guidance and support on change approaches, plans and use of CH global change toolkit
- Designing appropriate supporting change networks
- Tracking change readiness and embedding metrics
- Providing ongoing advisory and assurance of change plans and oversight of progress to plan
- Providing input into to a cross-disciplinary change squad, which meets regularly to actively manage functional priorities
- Ensuring that our change work remains focused on:
- Enabling colleagues to feel and perform at their best, whilst feeling valued and supported
- Enabling the successful delivery of our change programmes to help establish a smooth transition: new organisation structures, processes, systems, ways of workings and behaviours
- Avoiding (or significantly minimising) business performance dips as colleagues get used to new ways of working
Key skills and experience
- Ideally 7 years’ + experience leading or playing a key role in a complex change management initiatives or large-scale implementations
- Experience collaborating and interacting with leaders at multiple levels in varying businesses and geographies
- Sufficient level of seniority to have the authority to make decisions and provide guidance
- Demonstrable experience in utilising a variety of change management methodologies and mechanisms
- Experience of working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
- Experience of working in an agile project, or embedding an agile mindset, beneficial
- Exposure to, or experience of, an ‘employee experience’ based approach to managing and embedding change
- Experience of data driven change initiatives
- Strong informal networks of peers (or the capability to establish these) with ability to communicate and influence
- Knowledge of GSK Consumer Health organisation, culture and ways of working (or other FMCG organisations), a benefit but not essential
- Knowledge of Consumer Health or Pharma R&D a benefit but not essential
