Change and Communication Manager

Harvey Nash is searching for a Change and Communications Manager at one of our pharmaceutical clients.

You are responsible for:

. Coordinating transformation project activities for the Commercial IT Transformation program in collaboration with the Transformation Lead, the PMO manager and the engaged project/workstream leads.
. Developing change management strategy and plan with the Commercial IT Transformation team for the Commercial IT Transformation Programme
. Developing communications approach and plan with the Commercial IT Transformation team for the Commercial IT Transformation Programme
. Developing effective communications materials to build awareness and understanding of the program strategy, plans, and projects within CIT teams, across all levels of the IT function, business customers and other key stakeholder groups including (but not limited to):
o Project and program communications
o Departmental/functional communications
o Educational/informative communications
. Defining and managing key communications channels, and maintain core materials including but not limited to, CIT reference materials, FAQs, Intranet content, printed media, strategy presentations, etc.
. Establishing appropriate governance channels to review/approve the change and communications plan and communications content as appropriate
. Establishing stakeholder management processes and tracking across the Transformation Programme
. Developing and implementing appropriate feedback channels to allow CIT to track the impact of the programme across the CIT organisation and wider stakeholder groups (eg customer satisfaction surveys, post-communication follow ups etc.)
. Requesting and coordinating inputs to communications across the CIT organisation as necessary
. Supporting CIT Transformation Lead and Transformation LT in their interactions and communications with global CIT teams (eg workshops prep, meeting events, regular updates, help facilitate team conference calls)
. Managing agency support for operational delivery of materials as required

REQUIREMENTS/EDUCATION

. University Degree in PR, Communications or Marketing
. 5 years minimum work experience in related communications, public relations or marketing experience (Information Technology communications experience preferred)
. Experience in Corporate environment (multi-national, multiple business units)
. Fluency in English required (communication in German/French highly desirable).
. Strong understanding of Information Technology
. Good journalistic writing skills
. Clarity of key messages in written and verbal communications
. Strategic and analytical thinking highly required to develop illustrative content
. Key attributes: team oriented, customer and quality focused, results driven, pro-active, self-managed, strong work ethic, good influencing and negotiating skills.

Are you available immediately, have experience working within a Life Science company? Please send your complete CV (Word documents preferred) to (see below) For further details feel free to call me. I am looking forward to receiving your application.