Legal Change Management Lead
Takeda
16 days ago
Remote friendly (Bannockburn, IL)
United States
$154,400 - $242,550 USD yearly
Corporate Functions
About the role:
- The Change Management Lead (Associate Director) delivers enterprise-level change management for Global Legal, Ethics & Compliance by leading change strategy, managing communications, engaging stakeholders, and coordinating training.
How you will contribute:
- Lead change management work across communications, training, stakeholder engagement, and adoption planning.
- Drive adoption and sustained use of new processes, technologies, and ways of working.
- Develop and maintain enterprise change management standards.
- Lead change strategy for major technology, process, and operating model changes.
- Define change vision, objectives, and success measures for key initiatives (e.g., CLM rollout, matter management, eBilling, knowledge management, playbooks, intake, case/workflow management, reporting enhancements).
- Build an integrated change roadmap across multiple initiatives.
- Establish the case for change (risk reduction, cycle-time, cost control, consistency, better stakeholder experience).
- Manage function-wide communications (town halls, newsletters, leadership messaging).
- Build stakeholder alignment and coach senior function leaders.
- Monitor adoption metrics, feedback, and sentiment.
- Partner with L&D for training integration and with PMO to embed adoption into delivery plans.
- Create and manage communication programs (newsletters, town halls, annual reports, GC leadership communications, team all-hands).
- Embed a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement.
Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:
- 8+ years leading change in corporate process, technology, or organizational transformations.
- Hands-on experience with systems such as CLM, case/workflow/risk management, AI technologies, eBilling, eDiscovery, knowledge management, and intake portals (or comparable platforms).
- Ability to influence senior functional leaders without direct authority.
- Strong stakeholder management, conflict resolution, and facilitation skills.
- Comfort handling resistance in high-pressure, high-autonomy cultures.
- Executive-ready writing and live presentation skills.
- Define adoption KPIs tied to outcomes (cycle time, compliance, cost, data quality).
- Use system analytics, surveys, and qualitative feedback loops.
- Strong project/program management fundamentals (planning, RAID logs, dependency tracking).
- Ability to run multiple workstreams and coordinate with PMs, project owners, or DD&T partners.
- The Change Management Lead (Associate Director) delivers enterprise-level change management for Global Legal, Ethics & Compliance by leading change strategy, managing communications, engaging stakeholders, and coordinating training.
How you will contribute:
- Lead change management work across communications, training, stakeholder engagement, and adoption planning.
- Drive adoption and sustained use of new processes, technologies, and ways of working.
- Develop and maintain enterprise change management standards.
- Lead change strategy for major technology, process, and operating model changes.
- Define change vision, objectives, and success measures for key initiatives (e.g., CLM rollout, matter management, eBilling, knowledge management, playbooks, intake, case/workflow management, reporting enhancements).
- Build an integrated change roadmap across multiple initiatives.
- Establish the case for change (risk reduction, cycle-time, cost control, consistency, better stakeholder experience).
- Manage function-wide communications (town halls, newsletters, leadership messaging).
- Build stakeholder alignment and coach senior function leaders.
- Monitor adoption metrics, feedback, and sentiment.
- Partner with L&D for training integration and with PMO to embed adoption into delivery plans.
- Create and manage communication programs (newsletters, town halls, annual reports, GC leadership communications, team all-hands).
- Embed a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement.
Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:
- 8+ years leading change in corporate process, technology, or organizational transformations.
- Hands-on experience with systems such as CLM, case/workflow/risk management, AI technologies, eBilling, eDiscovery, knowledge management, and intake portals (or comparable platforms).
- Ability to influence senior functional leaders without direct authority.
- Strong stakeholder management, conflict resolution, and facilitation skills.
- Comfort handling resistance in high-pressure, high-autonomy cultures.
- Executive-ready writing and live presentation skills.
- Define adoption KPIs tied to outcomes (cycle time, compliance, cost, data quality).
- Use system analytics, surveys, and qualitative feedback loops.
- Strong project/program management fundamentals (planning, RAID logs, dependency tracking).
- Ability to run multiple workstreams and coordinate with PMs, project owners, or DD&T partners.