Change Management Manager
Location: Remote - Thousand Oaks, CA | Employment Type: Contingent Worker (Contract, W2) | Contract Length: 12 months (possible extension)
About the role
Support a major biopharmaceutical company’s enterprise-wide End-to-End Supply Chain Transformation in a senior, hands-on change management role. This position combines change management execution with strong project management discipline across multiple interconnected workstreams. The role will coordinate transformation activities, manage dependencies and timelines, support existing change plans, and help teams understand how individual initiatives connect to the broader E2E transformation. The ideal candidate can work independently, communicate effectively with senior leaders, and bring structure, clarity, and momentum to a complex, cross-functional environment.
Responsibilities
- Guide and execute change management activities across multiple transformation workstreams
- Support and enhance existing change management plans, communications, readiness activities, and adoption strategies
- Coordinate information, risks, dependencies, and decisions from individual workstreams to the E2E Transformation Lead
- Maintain an enterprise-wide view of transformation impacts, timelines, stakeholders, and interdependencies
- Partner with project managers who own individual workstreams without taking ownership of their functional deliverables
- Assess change impacts across the overall transformation, including impacts that overlap multiple workstreams
- Identify shared stakeholder groups and anticipate cumulative change fatigue
- Help workstream teams understand how individual changes contribute to the broader E2E transformation
- Evaluate cross-workstream schedules and recommend timeline or sequencing adjustments when appropriate
- Develop and support change communications, stakeholder engagement plans, and workstream change plans
- Build cross-functional buy-in and communicate the business value of proposed changes
- Prepare leadership updates, dashboards, readiness assessments, and governance materials
- Facilitate meetings, workshops, and readiness reviews that drive alignment, decisions, and accountability
- Communicate risks, issues, dependencies, and required decisions to leadership
- Support global stakeholders and cross-functional teams through implementation, stabilization, and adoption
- Coordinate activities, dependencies, timelines, and risks across multiple transformation workstreams
- Support existing workstream change plans, communications, engagement activities, and readiness efforts
- Partner with project managers to consolidate workstream information for the E2E Transformation Lead
- Assess how changes across different workstreams affect shared stakeholder groups
- Identify overlapping impacts, sequencing concerns, readiness gaps, and potential change fatigue
- Maintain integrated plans, dashboards, governance updates, and leadership materials
- Facilitate cross-functional meetings, workshops, and readiness reviews