Head of Business Transformation

Head of Business Transformation

Business Transformation Team - UK Personal Investor (UKPI)

Manchester

About the Role

The Business Transformation Team is at the heart of UKPI's enterprise change, driving alignment across business units to visualize priorities, enable strategic objectives , and foster operational resilience and commercial efficiency. The team empower s teams with agile governance , balancing short-term focus with long-term vision to deliver measurable value across silos, while retaining bottom-up ownership within streams and peers.

We are seeking a strategic leader to own and evolve the central control framework for portfolio delivery. This role is pivotal in translating strategy into an executable change portfolio, ensuring disciplined execution, and embedding a culture of continuous improvement across the organization.

What You'll Do

• Translate strategic priorities into annual and 3- 5 year change roadmaps, ensuring a unified, prioritized portfolio of change initiatives.

• Act as executive sponsor for key programmes (e.g., Platform Modernisation , Regulatory, Data), maintaining senior team alignment.

• Oversee standardized governance, reporting, and financial controls, including RAID management.

• Coordinate delivery across technology, operations, and business lines, bridging strategy and execution to ensure traceability of requirements to benefits.

• Monitor delivery performance and benefit realization, operating stage- gate and benefit-tracking processes.

• Develop and present MI packs for ExCo and Board, providing clear visibility of progress, trade-offs, and opportunities.

• Establish and maintain the change taxonomy, ensuring alignment with Offer, Platform, and Technology strategies.

• Ensure business readiness and alignment with the Target Operating Model, integrating change across the organization.

• Drive a culture of disciplined execution and continuous improvement, leveraging business partners, product managers, and teams to align change with business priorities.

• Significant experience in business transformation, portfolio management, or a related leadership role.

• Proven ability to translate strategy into actionable change portfolios and deliver measurable outcomes.

• Strong track record of leading cross-functional teams and managing complex, multi-year change initiatives.

• Expertise in governance frameworks, financial controls, and benefit realization.

• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels and across business lines.

• Strong analytical, reporting, and communication skills, with experience producing executive-level materials.

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience preferred .