LifeArc
Transformation Manager - Change Management
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Job Title: Transformation Manager (Change Manager)
Location: London
Job Type: Permanent, hybrid working with 3 days in the office
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Are you passionate about making life science life-changing and delivering impact for patients? We want to hear from you.
About the Role:
We're seeking an enthusiastic and organized Transformation Manager skilled in change management to support LifeArc as it looks to transform to deliver on its new strategic plan. This is a brand-new role as the organization continues to evolve through a number of strategic, operational, and infrastructure programmes. You'll play an important role in helping colleagues understand, embrace, and adapt to change.
Working alongside senior leaders, project managers, and stakeholders across the business, you'll help deliver change plans, communications, engagement activities, and training to support successful programme outcomes. You'll also help build change management capability across LifeArc by developing practical tools, sharing best practice, and supporting leaders to embed change into everyday ways of working. This role would suit someone with existing change management experience who is ready to take the next step in their career within a supportive and collaborative environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Change Strategy and Delivery: Support the delivery of organizational change across key strategic, operational, and infrastructure programmes by assessing change needs, developing and implementing change plans, coordinating governance and stakeholder activity, and ensuring change initiatives are aligned, manageable, and effectively embedded across the organization.
- Stakeholder Leadership and Engagement: Build strong relationships with leaders and stakeholders across LifeArc, providing guidance, tools, and engagement activities to support successful change and adoption.
- Change Insights and Measurement: Use data, feedback, and employee insights to measure the impact of change initiatives, identify opportunities for improvement, and support successful adoption across the organization.
- Change Communications and Capability: Develop clear communications, training, and practical tools to help colleagues understand, adopt, and embed change, while building change management capability across LifeArc.
- Risk, Fatigue and Resilience Management: Identify and help manage change risks, readiness, and capacity challenges, ensuring change is introduced in a sustainable way that minimizes disruption and supports colleague wellbeing.
- Use data, insight, and change management expertise to assess risks, address change fatigue, and provide practical recommendations that support successful transformation while protecting organizational performance and reputation.
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Essential Experience Required:
- Proven experience in change management within a similar organizational environment (life sciences/healthcare preferred)
- Formal training or certification in Prosci or another recognized change methodology.
- Proven experience delivering large-scale organizational change across multiple workstreams and stakeholder groups.
- Strong stakeholder management and the ability to influence without formal authority.
- Experience driving and recently delivering, hands-on change projects.
- Extensive experience of designing and chairing/facilitating senior stakeholder meetings and workshops.
- Ensuring adherence to organizational policies, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- Experience reporting to senior executive and Board and being able to distill complex information into compelling proposals.
Desirable:
- Experience supporting strategy implementation / operating model change / transformation programmes.
- Experience in matrix organizations and/or science, health, charity, or purpose-led environments.
- Experience with office moves, infrastructure programmes, or complex change impacting ways of working.
- Previous experience gained in a consulting environment would be beneficial
Education:
- Degree level qualification in a relevant discipline
- Further vocational qualifications required / desired (Prosci or other)
Skills & Abilities:
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build effective relationships and work collaboratively across teams and functions.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to tailor messages for different audiences.
- People-centred approach, using feedback and insight to understand challenges and support colleagues through change.
- Organized and adaptable, able to manage multiple priorities and projects in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
- Structured and pragmatic problem solver, able to translate complex information into clear actions and practical solutions.
- Comfortable working in ambiguity, creating clarity, structure, and momentum when priorities are evolving.
- Influencing and coaching skills, with the ability to support leaders and stakeholders to adopt new ways of working.
- Resilient and calm under pressure, balancing competing demands while maintaining a positive and collaborative approach.
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About Us:
LifeArc is a not-for-profit life science organization, leading the way for change in rare diseases in the UK and supporting promising initiatives in global health. We seek out research in areas of unmet need that has great potential, providing support to help it become breakthroughs that change lives.
What We Can Offer You:
Focused on finding life-changing solutions for underserved patients, our people thrive in an inclusive, and supportive environment that prioritizes their health and wellbeing. Our multidisciplinary approach guarantees our people growth opportunities, while our culture of innovation and collaboration drives the impact we make delivering on our purpose of ‘putting patients at the centre of everything we do’.
LifeArc is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible and developing a culture that values differences. As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee an interview to candidates with a disability or long-term health condition who meet the essential criteria for the role.
Please note that in certain situations, such as high volumes of applications, it may not be practical to interview all eligible candidates. In these cases, we may need to select those who best meet the essential criteria. (At LifeArc, the Disability Confident Scheme’s ‘minimum criteria’ is referred to as ‘essential criteria’).
Salary will be determined by qualifications and experience along with other exceptional benefits. Because we understand everyone has different requirements, our flexible benefits allow you to choose those which are important to you. Our pension scheme offers employer contributions of up to 12%, private health insurance, and annual leave of 31 days PLUS bank holidays.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people from minority ethnic backgrounds, for example, are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At LifeArc we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so whatever your background or lived experience, if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. Our top priority is finding the best candidate, and you may be just right for this or other roles.
We all have potential. At LifeArc, you’ll discover what you can really do with it.
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