Change Management Lead, Medical Imaging

Execute change strategies and adoption plans for new technologies, tools, data workflows, and R&D-driven process changes.* Assess organisational readiness early, identify adoption barriers, and implement targeted mitigation actions.* Build end-to-end change roadmaps covering stakeholder engagement, communications, training, rollout, and reinforcement.* Embed change considerations early in R&D design and development to ensure business readiness is built into product and process decisions.* Lead the planning and delivery of change management using formal methodologies to drive organisational transformation.* Provide clear, timely progress, risk, and decision updates to senior leadership.* Deliver training, awareness, and capability-building activities to strengthen change adoption.* Lead Change Agent Networks to support adoption across complex global programmes.* Champion best practices and promote a consistent, organisation-wide approach to change.* Develop and maintain cross-functional communication strategies that support successful execution.* Responsible for the timely, high-quality delivery of all change artefacts, plans, insights, and readiness assessments.* Develop clear, targeted communication plans that convey the purpose, progress, and value of R&D and change initiatives for the organisation.* Produce high-quality materials—including briefs, FAQs, training content, and leadership updates—to support awareness and adoption.* Manage and facilitate workshops, listening sessions, and alignment meetings across technical and non-technical teams to ensure shared understanding and engagement.* Serve as the central point of contact for stakeholder communication, ensuring consistent messaging and translating complex technical and business information for diverse audiences.* Lead alignment sessions with R&D, Operations, Commercial, Customer Support, and Quality to ensure downstream teams understand workflow, responsibility, and KPI impacts.* Develop and manage comprehensive business readiness plans covering IT, data, process, and people impacts.* Assess readiness levels, identify adoption risks, monitor engagement and training progress, and adjust plans accordingly.* Coordinate pre-deployment activities to build stakeholder commitment and ensure organisational preparedness for go-live.* Identify early risks, resistance, and adoption barriers, and implement targeted mitigation strategies.* Gather stakeholder feedback and adjust the change approach to ensure relevance and effectiveness.* Analyse and modernise workflows impacted by new R&D capabilities, partnering with cross-functional teams to redesign processes where required.* Maintain expertise in change management frameworks (e.g., PROSCI, ADKAR) and apply them consistently across initiatives.* Work with line management organisation to assess capability needs and define appropriate training and development plans.* Conduct capability and maturity assessments to highlight strengths, gaps, and improvement opportunities.* Coach and mentor teams to build change management capability and embed best practices across the organisation.* Demonstrates strong leadership capability, including mentoring, team development, and cross-functional leadership.* Working knowledge of Agile methodologies (preferably Scrum), along with exposure to UML, object-oriented principles, data and process modelling, or similar development frameworks.* Skilled in producing structured change artefacts such as impact assessments, communication plans, and readiness assessments.* Exceptional communicator able to translate complex technical concepts into clear business language and engage senior leaders confidently.* Proficient in recognised change frameworks (e.g., ADKAR, PROSCI).* Strong stakeholder engagement, influencing, and facilitation skills.* Ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously with high quality and attention to detail.* Strong interpersonal skills with adaptability and a continuous-learning mindset.* Demonstrated ability to identify and implement process improvements.* Comfortable leading or coordinating globally distributed, multidisciplinary teams.* Sound financial acumen and ability to manage complex budgets effectively.* Maintains up-to-date knowledge of life sciences technology trends and their customer impact.* Keeps current with emerging tools, technologies, and methods relevant to scientific and technical domains.* Strong organisational, prioritisation, and multitasking abilities.* Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.* # Proven professional background in change management, transformation, project leadership, and business process assessment/redesign.* Proven experience delivering change management within technology-enabled, scientific or other, complex transformation environments.* Experienced in coaching and developing others and supporting team capability growth.* Experience in imaging, medical technology, scientific computing, life sciences / clinical development, or other research-driven and regulated technical environments (e.g., GxP, financial).* Familiarity with product management workflows, technology delivery lifecycles (e.g., Agile methodologies), and the tools used to communicate progress to stakeholders in these environments preferred* Bachelor's degree in a people (Psychology, Human Resources, etc.), business, communications or related field—or equivalent relevant experience.* Change management certification (e.g., PROSCI) desirable.* English: FluentAt Perceptive, we enable the world's pharmaceutical, biotech, and clinical research organizations to rapidly discover and advance life-changing treatments.Together, our global team delivers unmatched scientific and technological expertise, global operational experience, and end-to-end solutions to help the global research community realize tomorrow's new therapies. 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