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Your new role
We are looking for an experienced Interim Head of Change & Transformation to lead a focused transformation of an established Change function within a regulated organisation.
This is not a BAU leadership or people management assignment. You will be brought in with a clear mandate to diagnose what is and isn't working, address immediate delivery challenges, redesign the function and leave behind a stronger, sustainable operating model.
With strong sponsorship from senior leadership, you will have the opportunity to take a critical look at the existing Change function and make a tangible impact across its structure, capability, governance, processes and overall delivery performance.
Key responsibilities:
- Assess the current Change function, including structure, capability, capacity and delivery performance
- Diagnose underlying issues and identify practical opportunities for improvement
- Stabilise and improve portfolio, programme and project delivery
- Design and implement an effective Change operating model
- Clarify accountability, roles, responsibilities and decision-making
- Strengthen portfolio governance, prioritisation and reporting
- Establish meaningful KPIs and management information
- Improve ways of working across Change, Technology and the wider business
- Identify capability and skills gaps and recommend the future requirements of the function
- Navigate legacy processes and organisational resistance while maintaining momentum
- Develop a clear transformation roadmap
What you'll need to succeed
- Transforming or improving an existing Change, Transformation, PMO or delivery function
- Operating model and organisational design
- Portfolio governance and delivery improvement
- Working across PMO, Programme Management, Project Management and Business Analysis
- Assessing organisational capability, capacity, skills and ways of working
- Influencing and constructively challenging Executive and senior leadership stakeholders
- Combining strategic thinking with a pragmatic, hands-on delivery style
What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.