Strategic Change Lead - Digital Transformation (R&D)

Piper Companies; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

Piper Companies is seeking a Change Management Lead to support a major digital transformation initiative within a global life sciences organization. This role will lead change management activities across a Digital Content Creation transformation within R&D, helping the organization adopt new processes, technologies, and ways of working.

The ideal candidate will bring 8–10+ years in change management, governance, and stakeholder engagement, with experience in regulated environments and a

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years of experience in change management, organizational transformation, program implementation or related discipline.
• Experience leading change management initiatives within complex organizations.
• Experience supporting digital transformation and business adoption programs.
• Experience within Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, R&D, or other regulated environments.
• Prosci certification preferred.
• Strong communication, presentation, facilitation, and relationship-management skills.
• Ability to work with senior stakeholders across functions and levels.
• Experience supporting technology-enabled transformation initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the overall change management strategy for a complex R&D digital transformation.
• Assess organizational impacts across four program workstreams and identify change implications.
• Develop and execute stakeholder engagement and communication plans.
• Lead change readiness, adoption, and organizational engagement activities.
• Partner with program leadership, business stakeholders, and workstream leads.
• Develop strategies to support user adoption of new processes and technologies.
• Support the development of training strategies and change-related learning initiatives.
• Identify stakeholder needs, potential resistance, and organizational risks.
• Coordinate with workstream leads to align change activities with milestones.
• Develop and track change management metrics, readiness indicators, adoption measures, and risks.
• Provide updates and recommendations to program leadership.

Skills

Change management leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Communications

Prosci certification

Job description

Piper Companies is seeking a Change Management Lead to support a major digital transformation initiative within a global life sciences organization. This role will lead change management activities across a Digital Content Creation transformation within R&D, helping the organization adopt new processes, technologies, and ways of working.

The ideal candidate will bring 8–10+ years in change management, governance, and stakeholder engagement, with experience in regulated environments and a