Senior Technical Change Manager

Gsk; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK is seeking a Senior Technical Change Manager in Greater London to oversee the quality and delivery of technical changes across internal and partner teams. You will align change activities with the Command Centre and modernisation efforts, leveraging AI and DevSecOps to improve efficiency while maintaining safety and compliance.

You will drive governance, risk assessment and escalation, and provide data-driven insights to product and service owners, ensuring robust change management across a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g. Computer Science, IT or Engineering), or equivalent experience.
• ITIL Foundation.
• Considerable experience in IT / technical change management within a large, complex, global organisation.
• Proven track record of governing technical change risk and interfacing change with operations / a command centre.
• Experience assessing change failures - point and systemic - and driving improvement through escalation.
• Experience of change performance reporting and data-driven governance.
• Experience implementing / leading Modern Change Management methods (Automation, AI & DevSecOps).
• Experience progressing standardised and/or automated change approval.

Responsibilities

• Interface from the change plan to the Command Centre to ensure awareness and engagement.
• Ensure change risk to critical services is visible and understood by the Command Centre.
• Assess change failings - point and systemic - exploring root causes and escalating appropriately.
• Drive corrective and preventive actions arising from change-related failures to closure.
• Set, monitor and govern quality expectations, standards and delivery discipline for technical change across teams.
• Assure continuity of governance outcomes through transitions to future-state.
• Define assurance across process compliance and technical completeness.
• Conduct risk-based sampling and spot checks, leveraging change evidence.
• Report on change quality and performance to product and service owners and management forums.
• Identify systemic weaknesses in change practice and feed them into improvement initiatives.
• Provide data on change performance to management forums, showing what is needed and why.

Skills

ITIL Foundation

Change governance

Data-driven reporting

AI & automation

DevSecOps

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field

Job description

This job is with GSK, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.

At GSK, we unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We are a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We're proud to be leading a healthcare revolution, and we're looking for people who can help us deliver on our ambition.

Role Overview

Change is a leading cause of incidents (incl. Major Incidents), so safe, visible and well-governed technical change is critical to protecting GSK's 24x7x365 services. This senior role sets, monitors and governs the quality and delivery discipline of technical change as it interfaces with the Digital & Tech Command Centre & Service Desk. It provides the interface from the change plan to ensure awareness and appropriate engagement and assesses change failings - both point examples and systemic patterns - exploring, escalating and driving improvement.

Aligned to GSK's operating-model ambition for standardised and automated change approval, the role works across internal teams, strategic partners and managed service providers to raise change quality. The role also inputs to the technical change management modernisation agenda, leveraging AI as appropriate, to drive increased efficiency and effectiveness.

In this role you will

Change - Command Centre Interface

• Provide the interface from the change plan to the Command Centre to ensure awareness of upcoming and in-flight change and appropriate engagement.
• Ensure change risk to critical services and business-critical periods is visible and understood by the Command Centre.
• Assess change failings - both point examples and systemic patterns - exploring root causes and escalating appropriately.
• Drive corrective and preventive actions arising from change-related failures to closure.

Change Risk & Quality Governance

• Set, monitor and govern quality expectations, standards and delivery discipline for technical change across internal and partner teams.
• Assure continuity of current change governance outcomes through any transition to future-state, more automated models.
• Define assurance across process compliance and technical completeness.
• Conduct risk-based sampling and spot checks, leveraging change evidence.

Data-Driven Improvement & Reporting

• Report on change quality and performance, including change-related incident data to govern to outcome and inform improvement.
• Identify systemic weaknesses in change practice and feed them into improvement initiatives.
• Provide data on change performance to product and service owners across Tech and to management forums, showing what is needed and why, and escalating where appropriate.

Responsible AI, Automation & Guardrails

• Play an active part in modernising the change management process and tooling, in line with GSK's AI and automation ambition, partnering with appropriate stakeholders such as the ITSM process owner and the Automation Acceleration Hub to progress standardised and automated change approval.
• Ensure AI and automation in change are used responsibly, with appropriate security, compliance, human review and change control before operational use.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g. Computer Science, IT or Engineering), or equivalent experience.
• ITIL Foundation.
• Considerable experience in IT / technical change management within a large, complex, global organisation.
• Proven track record of governing technical change risk and interfacing change with operations / a command centre.
• Experience assessing change failures - point and systemic - and driving improvement through escalation.
• Experience of change performance reporting and data-driven governance.
• Experience implementing / leading Modern Change Management methods (Automation, AI & DevSecOps).
• Experience progressing standardised and/or automated change approval.

Preferred Skills:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• ITIL Intermediate / Managing Professional or change management certification
• Experience in a regulated industry (pharmaceutical, life sciences, financial services or similar), including ensuring audit readiness and response
• Understanding of Command Centre operations
• Knowledge of DevSecOps / modern engineering change practice

Other Job-Related Skills/Background:

• Ability to balance control, compliance, pace and agility in a regulated, multi-sourced environment.
• Strong change-governance, risk-assessment and escalation capability.
• Strong documentation, standards and process-design capability.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret change and incident data to drive improvement.
• Practical AI fluency, supporting standardised and automated change approval within security, compliance and change guardrails.

Closing Date for Applications: Sunday 1st November 2026 (COB)

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Skills

Capacity Planning, Cloud Based Services, Configuration Management (CM), Database Management, Disaster Recovery (DR), Financial Operations, Identity Access Management (IAM), Incident Management, Infrastructure Capacity Planning, Network Configurations, Network Troubleshooting, Operations Analysis, Performance Tuning, Service Level Agreement (SLA), System Monitors, Vulnerability Management

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive.

We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases - to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we're committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.

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Senior Technical Change Manager • Greater London, Greater London, United Kingdom