Head of Change and Transformation

• Build strong, trusted partnerships with senior leaders to support successful delivery of change initiatives.
• Ensure all change activity aligns with strategic organisational priorities and goals.
• Promote transparent, evidence based decision making and prioritisation.
• Lead the organisation's value management, business change, delivery, and business architecture functions.
• Drive best practice in benefits realisation, performance measurement, and strategic planning.
• Ensure major initiatives have clear objectives, measurable benefits, and robust delivery plans.
• Oversee prioritisation of initiatives based on strategic value, organisational capacity, and urgency.
• Develop capability across change related functions by ensuring the right skills are available at the right time.
• Build talent pipelines and address capability gaps through targeted development.
• Embed change expertise across the organisation to increase consistency and resilience.
• Provide assurance to senior leaders and committees on delivery progress, risks, and value realisation.
• Support the development of frameworks for performance tracking, resource allocation, and decision-making.
• Facilitate planning across directorates to ensure alignment, identify dependencies, and address delivery challenges.
• Manage, coach, and develop a high-performing team that evolves with organisational needs.
• Oversee career development and performance across delivery, design, architecture, and analysis teams.

• Deep understanding of how people, culture, and behaviour influence change.
• Strong knowledge of value management, benefits realisation, and performance measurement.
• Ability to link financial planning and investment decisions to outcomes and impact.
• Awareness of regulatory or government environments
• Knowledge of established change management methods such as MSP, PRINCE2, and Agile.
• Extensive experience leading complex, organisation wide change.
• Strong analytical ability to interpret and simplify complex information.
• Experience setting up enterprise level change or value management functions.
• Skilled at building credibility, influencing senior leaders, and working with external partners.
• Strong portfolio and programme management capability.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• Proven ability to shape organisational culture, build capability, and lead professional communities.

My client is a leading pensions firm that overeses and regulates workplace pension arrangements.