Organizational Change Management Lead

PolyPeptide Group AG and its consolidated subsidiaries ("PolyPeptide") is a specialized Contract Development & Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) for peptide- and oligonucleotide-based active pharmaceutical ingredients. By supporting its customers mainly in pharma and biotech, it contributes to the health of millions of patients across the world. PolyPeptide serves a fast-growing market, offering products and services from pre-clinical through to commercial stages. Its broad portfolio reflects the opportunities in drug therapies across areas and with a large exposure to metabolic diseases, including GLP-1. Dating back to 1952, PolyPeptide today runs a global network of six GMP-certified facilities in Europe, the U.S. and India. PolyPeptide's shares (SIX: PPGN) are listed on SIX Swiss Exchange.

Our Values

Trust: We build and maintain trust in all our relationships – both with each other and with our customers. We support each other and work as a team.

Innovation: We are curious and driven by finding smart solutions to the challenges we face.

Excellence: We always strive to deliver high quality and adapt to meet the needs of our customers.

About the Role

As member of the global ERP Program Team, the Organizational Change Management Lead plays a key role in ensuring a successful adoption of SAP S/4HANA and related processes across the organization. With a strong foundation in change management, the role focuses on driving readiness, engagement, and behavioral change to secure a sustainable transformation. You will have daily contact with various stakeholders from project team members, top management, to many other stakeholders.

Acting as the primary bridge between leadership, business stakeholders, and project teams, the OCM Lead will execute the program's OCM strategy and ensure user adoption and business readiness across rollout waves across the different locations. A key part of the role is building and leading strong change agent networks, enabling local teams and leaders to understand, own, and drive the change.

You will leverage your understanding of human behavior and organizational dynamics to identify and address cultural barriers and drivers, assess and address stakeholder needs, and build trust across diverse teams.

Strong facilitation skills are essential as you engage co-workers and leaders, manage expectations, and secure alignment across program tracks such as PMO and deployment leads. You will also establish and track adoption KPIs to monitor progress and ensure the organization is ready for each wave of program implementation.

Key Responsibilities

• Execution of the program's OCM strategy, ensuring user adoption and business readiness across rollout waves
• Conduct change impact assessments, stakeholder mapping
• Plan and implement according change management actions and tools
• Establish and run adoption KPI's
• Partner with program tracks, e.g., PMO
• Facilitate leadership alignment, decision-making, and enable local leaders to own the change
• Manage the program's OCM and change network

Important stakeholders

• Global Process Owners
• Super Users
• People Managers
• C-executives
• Program team

Your Profile

To succeed in the role, you will have:

• 5+ years of experience in organizational change management, preferably within digital transformation and large IT programs.
• Strong practical understanding of IT projects, ideally ERP programs and multi-country rollouts.
• End-to-end change management capabilities, including impact assessment, stakeholder engagement, communications, training, and adoption.
• Proven experience with program deployment waves (e.g. testing, readiness, cutover, hypercare).
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to build and lead effective change agent networks across business areas and cultures.
• Strong interpersonal insight, including understanding of human behavior, cultural drivers/barriers, and the ability to translate between IT and business.
• Fluent verbal and writing skills in English.

Background in pharma, life sciences, chemical, or other regulated industries is beneficial but not a requirement. Experience with project management in a global digital transformation is a strong plus.

As a person you are a collaborative and proactive professional who thrives in a dynamic environment. With strong problem-solving skills and a structured way of working, you navigate challenges with confidence. Your excellent communication and stakeholder-management abilities enable you to build strong relationships and influence effectively at all levels of the organization. You bring a structured and analytical mindset, as well as the resilience needed to succeed in a regulated setting.

FIND THIS INTERESTING? APPLY NOW

Are you ready to take the next step in your career? The position will be open until January 9th 2026, but we are applying ongoing selection so do not hesitate to send us your application.

Our ERP team is primarily based in Malmö, Sweden, but we also welcome applicants located near our site in Braine, Belgium, provided you are within commuting distance of either site.

For more information, please contact Simon Schlamovitz at Swedish applicants are welcome to contact the local union chairman for Akademikerföreningen or Unionen at for support.