Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and
third-largest portfolio in the Over-The-Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market globally
.Our mission is to bring health in people’s hands by
making self-care as simple as it should be
. For half a billion consumers worldwide – and counting.At the core of this mission is our
100 loved brands
, our
11,000-strong global team, our 13 best-in-class manufacturing sites
and 4 specialized science and innovation development centers. Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world’s most loved brands, including Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale and Mucosolvan.
B Corp certified in multiple markets
, we are active players in the journey towards healthier people and planet. Find out more about our mission at www.opella.com.
About The Job
This is a position that is part of Opella Global Business Services (GBS)department.We are seeking a highly organized and influential
Transition & change Manager
to support and accelarate the implementation of a Center of Excellence (CoE). This role will act as both an Integrator—aligning people, processes, and platforms—and an Accelerator, driving momentum, adoption, and measurable results.The ideal candidate brings a strong command of Process Transition methodologies, exceptional stakeholder management skills, and a track record of delivering complex transformation initiatives across global organizations.
Role
The purpose of the role is for CoE acceleration and integration to the Target Operating Model for Opella, and support project change management:
🔹 Act as an Integrator
- Coordinate across functions, geographies, and business units to ensure alignment with the CoE operating model.
- Facilitate collaboration between process owners, capability leads, and service teams to drive standardization and integration.
- Ensure that people, process, and technology elements are aligned to enable a seamless transition into the CoE.
🔹 Act as an Accelerator
- Identify and remove roadblocks to implementation, enabling faster decision-making and execution.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and agile delivery to accelerate CoE value realization.
- Proactively identify quick wins and early success stories to build momentum.
🔹 Transition Execution
- Lead the end-to-end transition plan from legacy operating models to the CoE framework.
- Apply structured transition and transformation methodologies, ensuring governance, risk management, and benefit tracking are in place.
- Define and track transition KPIs, milestones, and performance outcomes.
🔹 Stakeholder & Change Management
- Engage with senior stakeholders to ensure alignment, sponsorship, and accountability throughout the transition journey.
- Drive change readiness by collaborating with HR, communications, and business leaders.
- Map change impacts and lead mitigation or enablement activities across the enterprise.
Main Responsibilities
The following details activities will be the main activities of the role, but special projects will be added regularly based upon the evolving priorities of GBS:
- Partner with selected Business partners teak to supervise transition of activities
- Coordinate with other functions to ensure readiness for transition
- Develop Transformation Journey Action Plan: Provide inputs, take action when relevant (TOM impacts) and follow-up on resolution at central function level.
- Ensure the mapping of end users to future TOM/tool/process is accurate
- Implement processes: Design & update process map together with Global Process Experts.
- Sustain the adoption: Address gaps in organizational readiness. Measure adoption of tools/ways of working post go-live
- Reach Meaningful Communication: Elaborate key messages linked to the function, set up and maintain key user network and drive leadership alignment + strong support to change mgt. messages
- Implement TOM: Support local implementation by providing key necessary explanation behind it, in coordination with CoE Communication and P&C Teams.
- Develop Training Strategy: Understand CHC audiences for training needs, customize training strategy & develop a specific training plan
- Drive End to End Training User Approach: Confirm Training Curriculum and Approach, nominate & onboard internal trainers such as key users, build training and adoption supporting materials, align with translation vendors (if any), prepare for train-the-trainer.
Expected Skills
- Excellent interpersonal and communication abilities, with the capacity to tailor messaging for diverse audiences across all organizational levels.
- Proven aptitude in business partnering and stakeholder engagement, ensuring alignment, transparency, and sustained collaboration.
- Ability to build credibility and influence among peers, leaders, and cross-functional teams in a global, matrixed environment.
- Demonstrated project leadership capabilities, with strong organizational and relationship management skills.
- Hands-on experience in driving transformation and managing change, with a structured yet flexible approach.
- Strong problem-solving mindset, capable of analyzing complex issues and proposing effective, pragmatic solutions aligned with transition objectives.
- Sharp strategic thinking, with the ability to prioritize, plan, and adapt in fast-paced environments.
- Demonstrated intellectual agility and a genuine interest in learning across multiple disciplines and domains.
- Fluency in English is essential; proficiency in additional languages is considered an asset.
About You
- 8+ years of experience in transition management, transformation delivery, or program execution within large or complex organizations.
- Proven track record in implementing Centers of Excellence (CoEs), Global Capability Centers (GCCs), or leading shared services transitions.
- Solid understanding of "Integrator" and "Accelerator" roles in the context of operating model transformation and service centralization.
- Proficiency in established methodologies such as Lean Six Sigma, PROSCI/ADKAR, PMP, or PRINCE2.
- Skilled in stakeholder engagement, facilitation, and change navigation across business and functional lines.
- Comfortable operating in global, cross-cultural, and matrixed environments, with the ability to manage complexity and ambiguity.
Why us?
At Opella, you will enjoy doing challenging, purposeful work, empowered to develop consumer brands with passion and creativity. This is your chance to grow new skills and be part of a bold, collaborative, and inclusive culture where people can thrive and be at their best every day.
We Are Challengers.
We Are Dedicated To Making Self-care As Simple As It Should Be. That Starts With Our Culture. We Are Challengers By Nature, And This Is How We Do Things
All In Together:
We keep each other honest and have each other's backs.
Courageous:
We break boundaries and take thoughtful risks with creativity.
Outcome-Obsessed:
We are personally accountable, driving sustainable impact and results with integrity.
Radically Simple:
We strive to make things simple for us and simple for consumers, as it should be.Join us on our mission. Health. In your hands.www.opella.com/en/careers
