Head of Business Transformation

3 weeks ago

Sheffield, United Kingdom Tes Global Full time

**Location**: Sheffield
Full time, permanent
**Salary**: £90,000 to £110,000
Tes is an international provider of software-enabled services passionate about using technology to make life easier for schools and teachers. All products and services are built with teachers and schools needs at the core, ensuring they are innovative, trusted education solutions.

**Role overview**:
Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, the Head of Business Improvement will assess, define, and lead the effective delivery of programmes of work that will have a transformative impact in supporting the strategic goals of the business. They will manage a team comprising business analysts and project managers and/or transformation leads.

The head of business improvement and their team will typically lead initiatives around 3 key themes:

- Operational excellence: Assessing and standardising business rules, tools and processes across the organisation to make the business more efficient and scalable
- Integration of company acquisitions: Enabling the benefits and synergies of M&A activities by successfully onboarding businesses into the Tes eco-system
- Project Management Office: Supporting and coordinating the efficient delivery of key projects and change initiatives especially when they run across multiple business areas

Building strong stakeholder relationships with all functions across Tes, they will champion the agile delivery of measurable outcomes that support Tes in its drive to becoming a leading global SaaS educational services provider. They will not only lead key business initiatives but also act as a continuous improvement champion helping the overall business adopt best practices at scale and taking ownership in constantly looking for ways to bring the business forward.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Drive business improvement across Tes by identifying, assessing, and prioritising initiatives and workstreams
- Own the programme of change and lead the successful delivery of value-based projects & initiatives
- Design and evolve the target blueprints for best practices & methodology, standardised business rules and processes to roll out throughout the organisation
- Manage and develop a highly engaged and high achieving team
- Work with key stakeholders to maximise value and the effective allocation of resources
- Monitor delivery and impact of the team and of the initiatives by using effective metrics
- Manage budgets and ensure suitable governance for the various workstreams
- Design an efficient communication framework around the activity to help align stakeholders, benefit from progress, and be able to act quickly on issues, risks and contingencies
- Develop and promote centres of excellence around project management, business analysis, change management and Agile delivery.
- Champion and support the adoption of “continuous improvement” mindset and best practices throughout the business

What will you need to succeed?
- Experience in planning and delivering complex programs of work in fast-pace environments
- Demonstratable track record in driving transformation at scale and/or radically impacting a business growth trajectory
- Evidence of having developed high-performing delivery team(s)
- Strong interest and talent for operational strategy
- Excellent communication skills & stakeholder relationship management
- Strong analytical and organisational skills
- Natural leader and motivator
- Genuine agile delivery mindset
- Past experience working in SaaS business

What do you get in return?
- 25 days annual leave rising to 30
- 5% pension after probation
- State of the art city centre offices
- Access to a range of benefits via My Benefits World
- Discounted city centre parking
- Free eye care cover
- Life Assurance
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- EAP (Employee assistance programme)
- Monthly Tes Socials
- Access to an extensive Learning and Development menu

Who are Tes?
Tes has been supporting the education sector for over a century, growing and changing alongside the evolution of education. Today, Tes is focused on providing digital solutions to support school leaders and teachers with wellbeing, continuous professional development, safeguarding, SEND provision, flexibility through timetabling, and pupil behaviour management.

Our Vision is to power schools and enable great teaching worldwide, by creating intelligent online products and services to make the greatest difference in education.

Tes has over 13m teachers in its online community and working relationships with 25,000 schools in over 100 countries. Tes helps schools find the teachers they need via a range of recruitment solutions; brings new teachers into the profession through initial teacher training; provides teachers with continuous professional development and world class safeguarding training. It also offers a range of expert tools for the classroom from timetabling, SEND provision, and behaviour management solutions to dynamic staff surveying and well

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