Why choose AstraZeneca Portugal?
As an exciting and emerging leader in pharma and biotech, we're pushing the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines to patients. This is where breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicine for the world's most complex diseases. Voted the best company to work for in Portugal 2023/24, AstraZeneca provides the thrill of a start-up within the security of a global firm that brings new challenges and pathways for a fulfilling career.
If you’re ready to make a difference, join our Global Hub in Corporate Affairs, Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Marketing, Global Business Services or Procurement. Bring your potential to our evolving team today.
Who do we look for?
Calling all dynamic, ambitious team players. At AstraZeneca, we empower people like you to push the boundaries of science, challenge convention and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. Here, you'll embrace differences and take bold actions to drive the change needed to meet global healthcare and sustainability challenges.
We're on the lookout for diverse minds inspired by difference who want to reach another level in their careers. Bold disrupters who confidently rise to challenges as fearless entrepreneurs. People who want to make a meaningful impact led by science in an organisation where global meets local. Join one of our offices in Lisbon and discover a culture of openness and vibrancy where diverse perspectives are encouraged and valued. Your work will have a real impact, no matter your level or function.
Success Profile
Ready to make an impact in your career? If you're passionate, growth-orientated and a true team player, we'll help you succeed. Here are some of the skills and capabilities we look for.
Tech innovators
Make a greater impact through our digitally enabled enterprise. If you're technology-savvy and have a digital mindset, you can use your skills and experience to transform and optimise our operations, helping us deliver meaningful work that changes lives.
Dynamic
In a constantly evolving environment dedicated to innovation, you'll use your strong sense of purpose to provide outstanding contributions. Although we're a global company, our Global Hub operates like a start-up, allowing you to work autonomously. Bring your fearlessness of improving patient outcomes, and we'll encourage your personal success.
Ambitious
Play your part in progressing a world-leading pipeline. Here, you'll improve patients' lives now and better the future of humanity. With our opportunities for continuous development, you'll exhibit your passion and potential to go beyond the expected — and grow in your career with our support.
Team players
Your unique perspectives make our ambitions and capabilities possible. Our culture of openness, sharing and giving allows everyone to speak up and express their ideas. In an open atmosphere of camaraderie and support, we rely on each other to further our progress and drive much-needed change.
Responsibilities
About the role :
At AstraZeneca, transformation is about more than deploying technology — it is about enabling people, teams, and organisations to adopt new ways of working that deliver lasting value. Within Global Business Services (GBS), we are transforming how work gets done through AI-augmented ways of working, intelligent automation, and data-driven decision-making.
As Change Manager in the GBS Transformation Office, you will lead the people side of this transformation. Based in Lisbon, you will be accountable for shaping and driving the change strategy across the transformation portfolio, ensuring that process owners, operational teams, and leaders are engaged, prepared, and empowered to adopt and sustain new ways of working.
This is a senior role for someone who can turn technical delivery into durable behavioural and organisational change. You will help ensure that what succeeds in lighthouse initiatives becomes embedded, scalable, and sustainable across GBS.
What you’ll do
You will design and lead the change management strategy across the transformation portfolio, covering stakeholder engagement, communications, training, and adoption. Working closely with the Transformation Office and delivery teams, you will assess change impacts, develop readiness plans, and support each lighthouse initiative and AI Factory deployment through to sustained adoption.
You will partner with GBS process owners, operational leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders across Technology, Data & AI, HR, and GBS Operations to build ownership, remove barriers, and create the conditions for successful change. You will play a key role in translating complex transformation into clear, compelling narratives that resonate with a range of audiences, including senior leaders.
A major focus of the role will be building capability and confidence across teams, designing and delivering training and upskilling that enables people to work effectively alongside agents, assistants, and automations. You will also support strategic workforce planning by helping define the people and capability implications of technology change across GBS.
Beyond implementation, you will help embed change into permanent business-as-usual capability, ensuring benefits endure beyond initial deployment. You will define and track adoption metrics, monitor behavioural change, and link sustained adoption to the strategic ambition of removing 50% of manual work across GBS by 2030.
Essential requirements
Significant experience leading change management across large-scale organisational, digital, or operational transformation
Demonstrated expertise in a recognised change methodology such as Prosci, ADKAR, or equivalent
Proven ability to drive adoption of new technology and ways of working across multiple teams and geographies
Strong stakeholder management and influencing capability, including at senior levels
Excellent communication, facilitation, and storytelling skills
Evidence of operating effectively in fast-paced, ambiguous, and evolving transformation environments
Ability to lead through change with positivity, credibility, and resilience
Fluent English, written and spoken
Desirable requirements
Experience leading change for AI, automation, or digital adoption programmes
Prosci, ADKAR, or equivalent change certification
Experience in pharmaceutical, life sciences, or GBS / Shared Services environments
Workforce planning or capability development experience
Familiarity with AI-augmented ways of working and the cultural shifts they require
Why AstraZeneca?
This is an opportunity to shape how a global organisation adopts the future of work. You will join a transformation agenda that is rethinking processes, capability, and culture at scale, helping ensure that innovation is not only delivered, but embraced and sustained.
At AstraZeneca, we value curiosity, courage, and collaboration. We are building an environment where evidence matters, learning is continuous, and transformation is made real through people. If you are passionate about enabling change that lasts, this role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful enterprise-wide impact.
Join us
If you are energised by leading complex change, influencing across diverse stakeholder groups, and building adoption in AI-enabled environments, we would love to hear from you.
Date Posted
17-jun.-2026Closing Date
30-jun.-2026AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.
Reasons to Join
Thomas Mathisen
There are many things I enjoy when working at AstraZeneca, mainly the Speak up culture, the great colleagues that are in my teams, the great products that AstraZeneca provides to our patients and the challenging conversations I have around our medicines.
Christine Recchio
Working at AstraZeneca has impacted my life in such a positive way. I now have an improved work-life balance through creating my own schedule and time management, I feel a balance that I didn’t have before.
Stephanie Ling
There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy working in AstraZeneca, my colleagues being one of them. My team members and the managers have provided a great deal of guidance in helping me to be more confident in my daily work.
What we offer
We're driven by our shared values of serving people, society and the planet. Our people make this possible, which is why we prioritise diversity, safety, empowerment and collaboration. Discover what a career at AstraZeneca could mean for you.
Aligned to performance
Our approach is designed to deliver great performance — stimulating our commercial growth, scientific advancement, collaboration and personal development. Never standing still, you'll have the chance to grow your abilities, skills and knowledge constantly as you accelerate your career.
Balanced
An energised work environment is only possible when our people have a healthy work-life balance and are supported for their individual needs. Typical benefits include healthcare, life insurance and long-term savings, and in many markets, there’s a range of benefits for you to tailor.
Holistic
We're at our best and most creative when drawing on our different views, experiences and strengths. Being valued for who you are and the difference you bring is at the heart of our culture — and you’ll be rewarded when you create authentic connections to our purpose.
Sustainable
Our two offices in Lisbon combine comfort with sustainability. From renewable energy, a zero-plastic scheme, electric vehicles and food waste reduction initiatives to sustainable reward practices, we're realising our ambition to harness the power of science to build a healthy future for everyone everywhere.
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