Senior Business Change Manager (2 Year FTC)

Cancer Research UK (CRUK); Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 58,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement plan

Flexible leave allowance

Discounts on travel and technology

Gym membership

Flexible working culture

Job summary

Cancer Research UK in London is seeking a Senior Business Change Manager on a 2-year fixed term contract to lead people-side change for cyber security, data and AI initiatives.

You will map impacts, build engagement and deliver change strategies so colleagues are ready and confident in new ways of working, enabling delivery of critical programmes.

The role sits in the COO, Stratford, with flexibility to work two days per week in the office, and a strong benefits package.

Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering data and technology change in organisation-wide transformation programmes.
• Extensive experience developing, delivering, evaluating and iterating change management plans for large organisations.
• Expert knowledge of applying business change principles, frameworks, tools, and techniques to achieve outcomes.
• Significant stakeholder engagement and influencing experience across all levels.
• Excellent communication skills, able to simplify complex information for varied audiences.
• Ability to navigate organisational complexity within data and technology delivery and related programmes.
• Strong project management and organisational skills, including planning, risk and dependency management.

Responsibilities

• Define, develop and deliver a shared change management plan aligned with collective outcomes.
• Conduct robust change impact and readiness assessments across the current landscape.
• Create persona groups to inform change planning across the organisation.
• Design change interventions with programme teams, focusing on people, mindset and culture.
• Prepare the organisation for changes, iterating the plan with delivery teams.
• Influence senior stakeholders to drive behaviour change in support of the plan.
• Apply Prosci ADKAR methodology throughout the lifecycle to enable best practices in change.

Skills

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Project management

Data/technology delivery

organisational navigation

Influencing senior stakeholders

Tools

Prosci ADKAR

Job description

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** th ** 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.

What will be some of the main responsibilities?

Key Accountabilities:

• Define,developand delivera sharedchangemanagementplan,in line withcollective outcomes.

• Conductrobust 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 withspecific attention to people,mindsetand 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 ofProsci® ADKARmethodologythroughout the change lifecycle, to deliver a best practice approach to change management

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

What skills are we looking for?

• Significant experienceof deliveringdata andtechnologychange in organisation-wide transformation programmes.

• Extensive experience leading the development, delivery,evaluationand 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 experienceat all levels, with the ability toestablishcredibilityand gain buy in to make change happen.

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

• Confident in navigatingorganisational complexity, specificallywithin 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.

What will I gain?

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 supported by a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools, policies and processes to enable you to do your job well.

Our benefits package includes a substantial retirement plan, a generous and flexible leave allowance, discounts on anything from travel to technology, gym membership, and much more.

We don’t forget people have lives outside of work too and so we actively encourage a flexible working culture.

Our work – from funding cutting-edge research to developing public policy – will change the world. It’s exciting to be part of our team.

Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented.

We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application process, interview process and whilst at work. We therefore ask you to inform us of any concerns you have or any adjustments you might need to enable this to happen. Please contact [e-mail] or 0 20 3469 8400 as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.