Director, Change Management - Labs of Tomorrow (BOSTON)

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Reporting to the Head of Research Program Management, this role is accountable for ensuring that transformation efforts—including lab automation, digital enablement, and new operating models—are not only delivered, but adopted, embedded, and sustained to achieve measurable impact. This role operates as a peer to Labs of Tomorrow Program Managers, where the PMs own delivery and this role owns adoption, behavior change, and value realization. This is not a passive support role.

The incumbent will drive change across the organization, challenge legacy ways of working, identify barriers to adoption, and ensure that transformation efforts result in measurable improvements in research productivity, operational efficiency, decision velocity, and organizational readiness. Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities Change Management Leadership Lead and drive change management strategies for the Labs of Tomorrow program that includes lab automation, digital enablement, new operating models, and future transformation workstreams. Define change impacts, stakeholder needs, adoption risks, and behavior changes required for successful implementation.

Ensure all initiatives have clear adoption, readiness, and value realization plans. Adoption of New Ways of Working Drive adoption of new cultural pillars, behaviors, processes, tools, and organizational practices across Research. Partner with workstream leads and PM counterparts to ensure impacted teams understand what is changing, why it matters, and how success will be measured.

Identify resistance, ambiguity, and adoption gaps early; develop and execute targeted interventions to maintain momentum. Stakeholder Engagement Enable leaders to act as visible sponsors of change, reinforcing new behaviors Act as a central change management partner across Research, Digital / IT, Operations, Quality, Finance, Communications, HR / Talent, and senior leadership. Build alignment across diverse stakeholder groups and ensure leaders actively sponsor and reinforce required changes.

Serve as a trusted advisor to Labs of Tomorrow leaders on stakeholder readiness, change risks, and adoption strategy. Communications