Change Management

Location: Remote, Thousand Oaks, CA
Employment Type: Contingent Worker (Contract, W2)
Contract Length: 12 months, possible extension
Compensation: $50/$57 per hour, based on experience

Summary of the Role

Support a major biopharmaceutical company’s enterprise-wide End-to-End Supply Chain Transformation. This senior, hands-on role combines change management execution with strong project management discipline across multiple interconnected work streams.

The successful candidate will coordinate activities across the broader transformation, manage dependencies and timelines, support existing change plans, and help teams understand how individual initiatives connect to the overall program. This person must work independently, communicate effectively with senior leaders, and bring structure and momentum to a complex, cross-functional environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Guide and execute change management activities across multiple transformation work streams

• Support and enhance existing change management plans, communications, readiness activities, and adoption strategies

• Coordinate the flow of information, risks, dependencies, and decisions from individual work streams to the E2E Transformation Lead

• Maintain an enterprise-wide view of transformation impacts, timelines, stakeholders, and interdependencies

• Partner with project managers who own individual work streams without taking ownership of their functional deliverables

• Assess change impacts across the overall transformation, including impacts that overlap multiple work streams

• Identify shared stakeholder groups and anticipate cumulative change fatigue

• Help work-stream teams understand how their individual changes contribute to the larger E2E transformation

• Evaluate cross-work-stream schedules and recommend timeline or sequencing adjustments when appropriate

• Develop and support change communications, stakeholder engagement plans, and work-stream change plans

• Build cross-functional buy-in and clearly 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 throughout implementation, stabilization, and adoption

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience supporting large, enterprise-wide or organization-wide transformation initiatives

• Experience coordinating multiple work streams within a broader transformation program

• Strong hands-on change management execution experience

• Strong project management skills, including planning, governance, dependency management, risk management, and execution

• Successful experience implementing organizational change, not solely developing high-level change strategy

• Ability to assess cumulative impacts, overlapping stakeholder groups, and change fatigue across multiple initiatives

• Strong executive communication and cross-functional stakeholder leadership skills

• Ability to build alignment and frame the value proposition for change

• Ability to work independently with limited direction and manage competing priorities effectively

• Experience operating within a complex or matrixed reporting structure

• Ability to understand business and project context well enough to identify material risks and dependencies without serving as the functional subject-matter expert

• Experience bringing structure, clarity, and momentum to ambiguous environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting global transformation initiatives with cross-functional and global stakeholder impact

• Experience in a regulated industry

• Life sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or healthcare industry experience

• Supply chain transformation experience

• Exposure to large-scale ERP or S/4HANA transformation programs

• Familiarity with connected planning initiatives

• Relevant project management or change management certifications

Certifications and experience with a specific change methodology are helpful, but successful implementation experience is more important.

Top 3 Must Have Skills

1. Enterprise-scale, multi-workstream transformation experience

2. Hands-on change management execution combined with strong project management capability

3. Executive communication and cross-functional stakeholder leadership

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Coordinate activities, dependencies, timelines, and risks across multiple transformation work streams

• Support existing work-stream change plans, communications, engagement activities, and readiness efforts

• Partner with project managers to consolidate work-stream information for the E2E Transformation Lead

• Assess how changes across different work streams 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

• Help teams connect work-stream deliverables to the broader transformation strategy

• Engage leaders and decision makers to build alignment and support timely decisions

• Recommend adjustments to timelines, sequencing, or engagement plans when needed

• Manage priorities independently within a complex reporting and stakeholder model

• Support implementation, adoption, stabilization, and transition activities

Education

• Doctorate degree or

• Master’s degree and 2 years of experience or

• Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of experience or

• Associate’s degree and 8 years of experience or

• High school diploma / GED and 10 years of experience

This posting is for a Contingent Worker, not an FTE.