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We're looking for an experienced and people-focused Change Manager to help drive successful change across our portfolio. This is an exciting opportunity to join a brand-new team and shape how change is delivered, adopted, and sustained, ensuring our initiatives achieve meaningful, measurable impact across the organisation.
About the Role
Sitting within the Portfolio Delivery Office (PDO), you will lead and embed effective change management across major initiatives.
You will:
* Develop and drive change management strategies across the portfolio to secure adoption and benefits realisation
* Align change approaches with the Heads of Portfolio and Project Management to ensure integration with delivery priorities
* Act as a bridge between Corporate Communications and project teams to coordinate clear, consistent messaging
* Partner with Project Managers and Sponsors to embed change activities into project plans and governance
* Assess organisational readiness and implement interventions that build resilience and change capacity
* Strengthen project and programme change capability through coaching, guidance, toolkits, and continuous improvement
About You
You are an experienced change professional with a strong focus on organisational impact. You are comfortable working across multiple concurrent pieces of work, supporting leaders and delivery teams to successfully embrace and embed change.
You will bring:
* Experience in change management with a clear focus on organisational impact and measurable adoption
* The ability to manage and support multiple smaller initiatives alongside wider portfolio activity
* Experience embedding change activities into project plans and supporting Project Managers and Sponsors
* Confidence coaching leaders, stakeholders, and PDO colleagues to embrace and deliver change
* Strong understanding of how change integrates with project and programme lifecycles
* Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence and build trust at all levels
About Us
The Portfolio Delivery Office is a newly formed team created to centralise the work of existing teams in Sanger. Our vision is: To be the trusted partner that connects strategy to execution, enabling Sanger to maximise organisational value and continuously adapt, innovate, and thrive. Bringing together portfolio expertise, change management, project management, and process analysis into one team with connected standards, we enable the delivery of complex change and projects for Sanger.
Next Steps
If you're excited by the opportunity to join a new team and shape how change happens across a diverse and evolving portfolio, we'd love to hear from you.
Please include a cover letter along with your CV. In your cover letter, include detail on how your knowledge, skills and experience match the requirements of the role described.
Additional information
Please note: This is a hybrid role with 2 to 3 days per week onsite, depending on the project.
Salary: £43,800 - £52,660
Closing Date: Sunday 08-MAR-26
Contract duration: Permanent
Role profile: For the full list of accountabilities and criteria, please click here.
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Hybrid Working at Wellcome Sanger:
We recognise that there are many benefits to Hybrid Working; including an improved work-life balance, with more focused time, as well as the ability to organise working time so that collaborative opportunities and team discussions are facilitated on campus. The hybrid working arrangement will vary for different roles and teams. The nature of your role and the type of work you do will determine if a hybrid working arrangement is possible.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:
We aim to attract, recruit, retain and develop talent from the widest possible talent pool, thereby gaining insight and access to different markets to generate a greater impact on the world. We have a supportive culture with the following staff networks, LGBTQ+, Parents and Carers, Disability and Race Equity to bring people together to share experiences, offer specific support and development opportunities and raise awareness. The networks are also a place for allies to provide support to others.
We want our people to be whoever they want to be because we believe people who bring their best selves to work, do their best work. That's why we're committed to creating a truly inclusive culture at Sanger Institute. We will consider all individuals without discrimination and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, where everyone can thrive.
Our Benefits:
We are proud to deliver an awarding campus-wide employee wellbeing strategy and programme. The importance of good health and adopting a healthier lifestyle and the commitment to reduce work-related stress is strongly acknowledged and recognised at Sanger Institute.
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