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Responsibilities And Accountabilities
- Lead strategic change execution within the DigitalX functional unit, ensuring alignment with enterprise-wide change management strategies and plans.
- Design and embed sustainable change, reinforcing new behaviours, processes, and ways of working for long-term adoption.
- Create functional unit-specific change plans, incorporating communication, training, and stakeholder engagement activities.
- Develop and maintain DigitalX-wide communication plans and oversee the delivery of communication activities.
- Perform impact assessments to evaluate the effect of changes on internal and external stakeholder groups.
- Conduct change readiness analyses, identifying risks, gaps, and areas requiring targeted support.
- Deliver clear, consistent messaging to impacted stakeholders, tailoring content to diverse audiences.
- Build strong relationships with leaders and managers across the functional unit to drive adoption of change initiatives.
- Coordinate across projects and initiatives to reduce change and communication fatigue.
- Leverage data and feedback to recommend improvements to change management tools and approaches.
- Collaborate with the Transformation Office, particularly the Change Management Chapter, to apply consistent frameworks, tools, and methodologies.
Required Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Communications, Organisational Development, Business, or a related field.
- Experience: Minimum 5+ years in change management, internal communications, or digital transformation. Proven ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines in a matrixed environment. Experience working with cross-functional teams and influencing without direct authority.
- Skills: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging for diverse audiences. Ability to conduct impact assessments, readiness analyses, and develop change plans including communication and training activities.
Working Environment
At Astellas we recognize the importance of work/life balance, and we are proud to offer a hybrid working solution allowing time to connect with colleagues at the office with the flexibility to also work from home. We believe this will optimize the most productive work environment for all employees to succeed and deliver. Hybrid work from certain locations may be permitted in accordance with Astellas Responsible Flexibility Guidelines.
Astellas Global Capability Centres Overview
Astellas Global Capability Centres (GCCs) are strategically located sites that give Astellas the ability to access talent across various functions in the value chain and to co-locate core capabilities that are currently dispersed. Our three GCCs are located in India, Poland and Mexico.
The GCCs will enhance our operational efficiency, resilience and innovation potential, enabling a timely response to changing business demands.
Our GCCs are an integral part of Astellas, guided by our shared values and behaviors, and are critical enablers of the company's strategic priorities, sustainable growth, and commitment to turn innovative science into VALUE for patients.
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