Senior Manager Business Change

Business Change

Full-Time, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

We work together to provide vital and highly valued support to drive our GSK’s strategic priorities. We’re looking for agile, high-performing talent with a background and experience in SAP, among others, to join our new team based in our new and vibrant Global Capability Centre (GCC) in Bengaluru. This team works with people across our commercial & manufacturing businesses worldwide to make the most of our SAP tools and processes to drive performance and transformation.

We are looking for proven change expert with the ambition and capability to build a world class change management function. Utilizing a global single instance of SAP to enhance & standardize our global processes. You will bring creativity and analytical capabilities to solve complex business challenges and possess strong communication and people skills to engage and inspire diverse global teams to enable effective embedding & adoption of change to realise global value.

As part of a modern, technology-led Finance function delivering world-class service, you’ll have the opportunity to develop your skills to progress in your career while working in a diverse and culturally rich environment with some of the best and brightest in the field.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following

The role is to develop and execute the required change & communications activity to successfully deliver and deploy the specific projects they have been assigned to, within the required businesses and markets to ensure business leaders are regularly engaged and the change network and impacted employees are ready, willing and able to adopt and comply with the new system, processes and organisational structures.

  Role Expectation:

1. Ensuring that the centrally defined change & communications approach and tools are applied appropriately across the project and/or are modified as appropriate in agreement with the GCC Change & Communications Lead.

2. Responsible for assessment of requirements, detailed planning and delivery of the change and communications activities, reporting progress against plan and managing risks and issues in close collaboration with assigned ERP deployment lead and wider project team.

3. Managing a complex stakeholder landscape, where stakeholders are engaged effectively to ensure understanding, buy in and a smooth path for project delivery; engagement requirements may also include third party vendors and business services hubs.

4. Identifying, mobilising and managing the change network for the project

5. Creating and executing a business change impact assessment and change action plan to ensure change is successfully mitigated

6. Executing business readiness activities to measure whether impacted employees are ready for the change, creating and delivering adoption plans as necessary.

7. Effective management of all communications activities including, audience and stakeholder identification, development of a communications engagement strategy, key messages, materials and channels while ensuring content is created in line with GSK’s tone of voice, tools and brand guidelines. 

8. Ensuring appropriate engagement with delivery partners across the business, e.g. GPOs, TPOs, Finance, HR, Tech, ERP Learning, Comms, etc

9. Focus on continuous improvement of methodology and feedback of lessons learned within GCC Transformation team and broader change teams

10. Engage with the wider GSK change and comms management community to drive best practices and learnings, and to ensure compliance to global policies, principles and tools.

We would like to speak to you if you have these experience and skills

- Deep subject matter expert in project change and communication management.

- Proven track record of delivering transformational change on multiple large-scale programmes (e.g. SAP ERP deployments, offshoring and outsourcing)

- 5+ yrs experience of change management and communications delivery; some training experience is advantageous

- Experience of human centric design, agile and lean methodologies preferred

- Ability to inspire cross-functional, virtual, global, and diverse teams 

- Relationship and stakeholder management, ( e.g. persuading and influencing skills)

- Proven problem-solving and negotiation capabilities along with a process-focused perspective

- Proven ability to deliver results in a complex /global environment and to solve complex business and process problems.

- Prosci Change Management Certification (preferred)

- Project management certification (PMI/CAPM or PMP, PRINCE2)

- Agile (SAFe/SCRUM) and Lean Six Sigma (preferred)

- Flexible to Work in shift operations to cater based on the business needs

Why GSK?

Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture. These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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