Director, Transformation Change & Communications

Additional Location(s): US-MA-Marlborough; US-MN-Arden Hills

Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.       

About the role:

The Director, Transformation Change & Communications, will play a critical leadership role in Boston Scientific's Enterprise Transformation Office (ETO), translating the company's most important transformation priorities into meaningful, measurable and sustainable organizational change.

This leader will build and lead an integrated enterprise transformation change and communications capability, bringing together strategic communications, change management, leadership activation, stakeholder engagement and organizational adoption. Working closely with senior leaders across businesses, functions and regions, the director will help the organization navigate significant changes in organizational structure, operating models, resource deployment and the adoption of new capabilities.

An immediate priority will be supporting a significant enterprise transformation focused on organizational simplification, productivity improvement, structural and indirect cost reduction, work redesign and building capabilities for the future. The director will ensure transformation strategies translate into coordinated execution, equipping leaders to effectively guide change, helping employees navigate transitions with clarity and respect, and enabling the organization to realize and sustain intended business outcomes.

Work model, sponsorship, relocation:

At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration and synergy. This role follows a hybrid work model requiring employees to be in our local office at least three days per week. Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time. Relocation assistance is not available for this position at this time.

Your responsibilities will include:

Lead enterprise transformation change and communications

• Develop and execute integrated change management and communications strategies supporting major enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Translate complex transformation priorities into clear narratives, stakeholder engagement strategies and actionable change plans.
• Serve as a trusted adviser to ETO leadership and senior business and functional executives on navigating significant organizational change.
• Integrate communications, leadership engagement, employee readiness, adoption and stabilization activities to create a coordinated transformation experience.
• Anticipate stakeholder needs, organizational risks and execution barriers, developing proactive strategies to address emerging challenges.

Enable transformation execution and value realization

• Lead change management strategies supporting organizational redesign, operating model transformation, productivity improvement and structural cost-reduction initiatives in partnership with Enterprise Organization Health and transformation leaders.
• Partner with transformation workstreams to identify and enable organizational and behavioral changes required to achieve and sustain targeted productivity and cost savings.
• Support transformation initiatives involving organizational simplification, role and management layer reduction, indirect spending optimization, process redesign and new ways of working.
• Establish change readiness, adoption and effectiveness measures to identify risks to transformation milestones and intended business outcomes.

Shape the transformation narrative

• Develop and maintain a compelling enterprise transformation narrative connecting organizational changes to Boston Scientific's strategy, growth ambitions and future ways of working.
• Communicate what is changing, why it matters and how transformation initiatives support long-term organizational success.
• Build coordinated communications strategies tailored to enterprise, business, functional and regional audiences.
• Equip executives and people leaders with messaging, tools and resources to confidently lead employees through complex organizational transitions.
• Ensure transformation communications reflect Boston Scientific's values and provide impacted employees with timely, clear, empathetic and respectful information.

Mobilize leaders and the organization

• Build leadership alignment and accountability around enterprise transformation priorities, enabling leaders to translate strategic direction into meaningful team engagement.
• Develop stakeholder engagement and change strategies tailored to employee populations, geographies and varying levels of organizational impact.
• Partner with Enterprise Organization Health to align change and adoption strategies with organizational health insights, workforce implications and operating model objectives.
• Coordinate global and regional change management and communications resources to promote enterprise consistency while addressing local requirements.
• Establish employee listening and feedback mechanisms to assess sentiment, identify emerging risks and continuously refine change strategies.

Build enterprise transformation capability

• Establish scalable change management methodologies, tools, governance frameworks and practices that can be applied across enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Partner with the Business-Deployed Change Enablement team to connect enterprise transformation strategies with change execution capabilities embedded within the businesses.
• Strengthen organizational capabilities in change leadership, growth mindset, agility and adoption of new ways of working.
• Advance Boston Scientific's approach to transformation by building a sustainable, repeatable enterprise capability beyond individual change initiatives.

Drive new ways of working

• Partner across the ETO to enable transformation through process simplification, artificial intelligence (AI), automation and evolving operating models.
• Help leaders and employees understand and prepare for changes in roles, capabilities and ways of working driven by emerging technologies.
• Develop adoption strategies that translate new technologies and capabilities into measurable improvements in employee behaviors, productivity and business performance.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree
• Minimum of 10 years' experience in enterprise transformation, organizational change, strategic communications or a combination of these disciplines, with significant leadership experience.
• Demonstrated success leading organizational change through complex enterprise transformations, restructuring, operating model redesign or large-scale productivity initiatives.
• Proven ability to advise and influence C-suite and senior executives, translating strategic priorities into actionable plans across a large, matrixed organization.
• Strong strategic communications expertise and a deep understanding of organizational change management, stakeholder engagement and adoption.
• Experience mobilizing geographically distributed teams and driving alignment across businesses, functions and regions through influence.
• Strong business and financial acumen, with the ability to connect transformation initiatives to measurable business outcomes.
• Exceptional judgment and discretion when navigating sensitive organizational and employee-related matters.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments, establish structure and direction, and effectively balance strategic planning with hands-on execution.

Requisition ID: 636319

Minimum Salary: $155000 

Maximum Salary: $294500 

The anticipated compensation listed above and the value of core and optional employee benefits offered by Boston Scientific (BSC) – see www.bscbenefitsconnect.com—will vary based on actual location of the position and other pertinent factors considered in determining actual compensation for the role. Compensation will be commensurate with demonstrable level of experience and training, pertinent education including licensure and certifications, among other relevant business or organizational needs. At BSC, it is not typical for an individual to be hired near the bottom or top of the anticipated salary range listed above.

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Boston Scientific transforms lives through innovative medical technologies that improve the health of patients around the world. As a global medical technology leader for more than 45 years, we advance science for life by providing a broad range of high-performance solutions that address unmet patient needs and reduce the cost of healthcare. Our portfolio of devices and therapies helps physicians diagnose and treat complex cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, oncological, neurological and urological diseases and conditions. Learn more at www.bostonscientific.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

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