Senior Business Change Manager; FTC)

Senior Business Change Manager (2 Year FTC)

Department: COO (Chief Operating Office)

Salary: £58,000 - £64,000 per annum plus benefits

Contract: Fixed Term Contract

Hours: Full-time (we’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements)

Location: Stratford, London Office-based with high flexibility (typically 2 days per week in the office)

Closing date: 8
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* October 2026

Visa sponsorship: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.

We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That’s why we’re looking for someone talented, someone determined, someone like you.

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Business Change Manager to help drive the successful adoption of key cyber security, data and AI initiatives across Cancer Research UK. In this pivotal role, you’ll lead the people side of change, identifying impacts, building engagement, and delivering strategies that ensure colleagues are ready, supported and confident in embracing new ways of working. In this role, you will help to create a lasting impact, enabling our people to embrace change with confidence and maximise the value of critical strategic initiatives.

• Define,develop and delivera sharedchangemanagementplan,in line with collective outcomes.

• Conduct robust change impact and readiness assessments,assessing the current landscape.

• Create persona groups to inform change planning across the organisation.

• Design the required change management interventionsrequiredto successfully embed the changes, working closely with each programme, and with specific attention to people,mindset and culture change.

• Prepare the organisation for the changes ahead, working with members of the programme teamstoevaluateanditeratethe change plan through delivery.

• Influencingkeyseniorstakeholders at all levels across the charity, supporting them in their rolesand responsibilities to drivebehaviourchangein support of the change management plan.

• Driving the consistent application of Prosci® ADKARmethodologythroughout the change lifecycle, to deliver a best practice approach to change management

• Enable the handover of plans and capability, support the transition into Businessas Usualand move towards continuous improvement.

• Significant experience of delivering data andtechnologychange in organisation-wide transformation programmes.

• Extensive experience leading the development, delivery,evaluation and iteration of change management plans that has led to successful adoption of changes within a large organisation

• Demonstrable expert knowledge and experience of applying business change principles, frameworks, tools, and techniques to achieve required outcomes and benefits.

• Significant stakeholder engagement and influencing experience at all levels, with the ability toestablishcredibilityand gain buy in to make change happen.

• Excellent communication skills,with the abilityto communicate complex information simply to a variety of audiences at all levels

• Confident in navigating organisational complexity, specifically within dataandtechnologydeliveryand how this links to and depends on broader business transformation programmes.

• Strong project management and organisational skills, and a high awareness of the project and programme context and discipline. Fully competent at planning, risk management, and dependency-management.

Each and every one of our employees contributes to our progress and is supporting our work to beat cancer. We think that’s impressive.

In return, we make sure you are…