Novartis
AI Change Lead
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This is a temporary contractor opportunity at Novartis
Novartis touches the lives of a tenth of the world’s population. Every role here, regardless of contract type, makes an impact on human life!
This role is offered through Magnit Global, who, if selected, will be your employer. If your services are retained, you will be assigned to provide services to Novartis as the end client. This is not an offer of employment with Novartis. If you are selected for this Temporary/External opportunity, you will not be an employee of Novartis and will not be eligible for any Novartis employee benefits or incentives.
Ready to work with/through Magnit at Novartis? Please read on…
Job Purpose
As the AI Change Lead, you will drive enterprise-wide adoption of AI technologies by leading strategic change initiatives, fostering AI fluency, and embedding AI-enabled behaviours across the organisation. This role is pivotal in ensuring that employees are equipped, engaged, and empowered to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, innovation, and decision-making in line with our Novartis ambition to become AI-enabled by 2028. This role requires a blend of strategic thinking, creative agility, and deep understanding of AI’s impact on people, processes, and culture.
Major Accountabilities
- Lead and execute change management strategies to enhance AI Fluency across Novartis, ensuring alignment with AI Strategy and Novartis culture.
- Design and deliver AI fluency programmes tailored to different audiences (leaders, managers, general users), including KPIs and success measures.
- Build change management learning interventions as needed to help leaders prepare teams to continually adopt changes to ways of working resulting from ongoing integration of AI technologies.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g. DDIT and unit learning teams) to ensure seamless adoption and utilization of AI technologies.
- Coach senior leaders to role-model AI behaviours and support their teams through transitions.
- Build and activate communities of practice (e.g. AI champions network) to support the diffusion of AI technologies across the organisation.
- Translate complex AI concepts into accessible narratives through storytelling, campaigns, and engagement events.
- Champion a culture of experimentation, curiosity, and responsible AI use.
- Curate and amplify internal success stories, use cases, and impact metrics to build trust and momentum.
- Monitor adoption metrics, feedback loops, and behavioural indicators to refine change strategies.
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Skills & Qualifications
- You should have extensive experience in change management.
- You should be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously and have strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Proven experience in change management, organisational development, or transformation leadership (8+ years).
- Strong understanding of GenAI tools (e.g. ChatGPT and Copilot).
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience designing and delivering training, workshops, and behavioural change programmes.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving clarity in fast-paced environments.
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Workload
- 35 hours/week
Role type
- Hybrid
Required start date
- 1 September 2026
Contract
- PAYE Inside IR35
- 9 months
Why Novartis
Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together?
EEO Statement
The Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
Accommodation
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to Magnit at directsourceproteam@prounlimited.com.
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