Head of Transformation

3 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Command Recruitment Full time

Major Growing Organisation are expanding and are seeking a Head of Transformation to help them through a growth stage. This is an exciting time to join and you will be rewarded with a generous salary of £75-85,000 plus company benefits.

Purpose of the Job:
The Head Of Transformation is responsible for business and technology transformation initiatives across the organization. To drive organizational value optimization, efficiency, effectiveness and cost reduction in finance, production processes, scheduling,data and analytics, human resources, payroll & benefits and other support and operational functions. This includes leading collaboration, change management, innovation, and adoption for successful business transformation initiatives with regional operationspersonnel to ensure significant value is achieved at the country level to facilitate high demand to adopt changes quickly. Collaboration with departmental teams is critical to ensure transformation initiatives generate positive departmental and cross departmentallevel impact and change is supported with adequately supported. This role will also be required to successfully build credible partnerships across business functions, stakeholders and Information Technology (IT) to achieve intended value propositions of strategicinitiatives.

The scope of Business Transformation is broad, cross functional and throughout all levels of the organization and required to define priority opportunities with high level of organizational impact within manageable levels of investment that generates anoptimal return on investment.

The Head Of Transformation will be required to quickly understand the depth and breadth of internal organizational functions and processes but also scan external ecosystems to identify current technology, resources or vendors that are viable partners tocompliment, innovate and add value to strategic initiatives, you will drive program and project management for initiatives developing strategic plans, assembling cross functional resourcing, engaging with external vendors as necessary, managing communicationsand change management plans, building complex project plans and executing with low cost, efficiency and high adoption and success.

Team Development / Leadership
- Oversee, direct, and organize the project work within the context of cross functional project teams supporting initiatives from finance, operations, supply chain, administration and IT teams
- Ensure project team members, though are not direct reports, receive timely and appropriate feedback, training and development in coordination with staff line managers.
- Support building the capacity of staff engaged in initiatives at the company, ensuring sufficient capability and capacity to adopt and realize change.
- Mentor and develop staff using a supportive and collaborative approach involved in initiatives
- Assign and maintain accountabilities, establish clear and mutually agreed expectations, set objectives, establish priorities, and monitor and evaluate results.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Minimum Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

- Experience working across an organization to define business requirements. Translating these into hard benefits to support project justification.
- Lead the organization to excellence through transformation initiatives in all aspects of finance, HR, scheduling, production, IT, operations and administration.
- Oversee, direct, and organize the project work within the context of cross functional project teams supporting initiatives from finance, operations, supply chain, administration and IT technology teams.
- Lead programs and projects using innovative, agile and project management tools and techniques in the strategic development, change management and implementation of key initiatives to ensure the organization's ability to successfully implement a businesstransformation agenda and realize intended impact.
- Promote a culture of high performance and continuous improvement and innovation that values learning and a commitment to quality.
- Ensure project team members, though are not direct reports, receive timely and appropriate feedback, training and development in coordination with staff line managers.
- Mentor and develop staff using a supportive and collaborative approach involved in initiatives:

- Assign and maintain accountabilities, establish clear and mutually agreed expectations, set objectives, establish priorities, and monitor and evaluate results.

Other Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

- Proven ability to manage change and continual improvement strategies
- Experience working within a technology team. With deep experience in project delivery, transformation and change management.
- Knowledge or expertise in field of IT systems, technology, SaaS platforms, enterprise software and end user devices.
- Proven track record of success implementing business transformation and digital initiatives enterprise-wide in commercial and or not for profit organizations.
- Strong, positive track-record of innovation and collaboration - able to work with diverse teams in diverse locations, engaging their input and commitment to success.
- High level of organization, managing risk and decision-making skills working in a fast-paced work environment.
- A systematic approach to work maintaining accountability, plans and demonstrations of success.
- Excellent communication skills; written, oral and listening.
- Ability to speak at all levels of the organization including the Exec and Board.



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