Senior Business Change Manager (2 Year FTC)

Cancer Research UK; Stratford-upon-Avon; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Substantial retirement plan

Generous personal leave

Discounts on travel/tech

Gym membership

Flexible working culture

Job summary

Cancer Research UK is seeking a Senior Business Change Manager to lead the people side of major cyber security, data and AI initiatives. You will identify impacts, build engagement and deliver strategies to ensure colleagues are ready, supported and confident in adopting new ways of working.

This is a 2-year Fixed Term Contract, office-based with flexibility (about 2 days in the office). You will influence senior stakeholders and drive consistent change practices across the charity.

Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering data and technology change in organisation-wide transformation programmes.
• Extensive experience leading development, delivery, evaluation and iteration of change plans for large organisations.
• Expert knowledge of applying business change principles, frameworks, tools, and techniques.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Project management

Organisational change

Influencing

Data delivery

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: 8th 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.

Key Accountabilities

• Define, develop and deliver a shared change management plan, 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 interventions required to 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 teams to evaluate and iterate the change plan through delivery.
• Influencing key senior stakeholders at all levels across the charity, supporting them in their roles and responsibilities to drive behaviour change in support of the change management plan.
• Driving the consistent application of Prosci ADKAR methodology throughout the change lifecycle, to deliver a best practice approach to change management.
• Enable the handover of plans and capability, support the transition into Business as Usual and move towards continuous improvement.

What skills are we looking for?

• Significant experience of delivering data and technology change 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 to establish credibility and gain buy in to make change happen.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex information simply to a variety of audiences at all levels.
• Confident in navigating organisational complexity, specifically within data and technology delivery and 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?

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.

• Substantial retirement plan
• 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 020 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.

We’re the world’s leading cancer charity, dedicated to saving and improving lives with our research.

We work to reduce the impact of cancer on people’s day-to-day lives through our research, influence and information.

We are beating cancer – step by step, day by day.

Our work means that people with cancer live better lives through earlier diagnosis and kinder, more effective treatments.

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