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Change Management Specialist, Bolton, Greater Manchester
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Location: Bolton, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
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EU work permit required: Yes
Job Views:
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Posted:
26.08.2025
Expiry Date:
10.10.2025
Job Description:
Role Type: Temporary – 9 Months
Days/Hours:
* October – January 2026, 2.5 Days per week
* January onwards 5 Days per week
Location: Remote (Ad-Hoc office attendance to Cambridge, for critical meetings/workshops)
Your New Company
Bring out the best in each other, and yourself, by working together as one
In our dynamic environment, be supported by the brightest minds working together side by side. Agile and collaborative, we work cross-functionally, as well as externally, to thrive at pace.
Be encouraged and supported to think creatively in our dynamic environment. Here we are free from fear of failure, free to ask the right questions and make bold decisions.
Your New Role
This role is a key member of the Transformation Management Office (TMO). The role is accountable for developing and implementing change management strategies for one or multiple ongoing initiatives within the organization. Works closely with the Director Change Management and the TMO team to ensure alignment of change impact across a portfolio of projects.
Provide change management leadership and support for major change initiatives:
* Coordinate change across a number of projects ensuring change is delivered in a coordinated way
* Partner with project leaders and project managers on successful delivery of the initiative
* Ensure adherence to company change management frameworks
* Perform change impact assessments to identify key risks and resistance to successful implementation
* Develop and deliver comprehensive partner engagement, communications, and training plans to ensure project success
* Create plans for measuring adoption and success of change
* May work with external service providers
* Participate in AZ project management and change management communities of practice to share standard methodologies and findings
* Demonstrate expertise in change management, with a record of delivering successful change projects
* Show strong communication and relationship-building skills with the ability to influence others to achieve objectives
* Exhibit strong networking/consulting skills with good internal/external links
* Interpret and communicate technical information into business language aligned with AZ business
* Deliver high-risk programme/projects and support decision-making
* Negotiate effectively across complex groups
* Hold formal qualifications in change management, project management, and/or process improvement methodologies
* Experience working in a global organization with complex/geographical context
* Pharmaceutical R&D experience
WHY ASTRAZENECA?
It's an exciting time to join AstraZeneca, a rapidly growing global business. We are a valued part of this journey, providing a platform to achieve more.
What's next?
If you're ready to bring new insights and fresh thinking, apply with your CV. We have one seat available, and we hope it's yours.
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