Head of Transformation

2 weeks ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom Phoenix Group Full time

**Location & flexible working**:Edinburgh All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process

**Job Type**: 12 month Fixed Term Contract

**Closing Date**: 26/07/23

**Salary and benefits**:Day Rate based on Experience

We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Phoenix Group as a Head of Transformation supporting our Commercial Partnerships Function, within Group Operations.

**The role**

Working a cross functional team of client and consultants, own and lead on the overarching programme plan for the Commercial Partnership transformation. Develop and implement clear business operating model for commercial partnerships aligned to wider Transformation. Lead governance across the programme, aligning with consulting team. Proactively work with the commercial partnerships leadership team to agree and deliver plans to develop the relationships, aligned to key target areas, focusing on both the operational and strategic nature of the relationships and desired business outcomes. (as designed in the programme). Build a progressive and positive environment across internal stakeholders to progress strategic partnering. Lead on risk management for the programme - ensure all risks are effectively managed. Ensure programme is resourced correctly, to enable right pace of delivery. Manage all budgets for programme - aligning to the leadership team within Commercial Partnerships.

**What We’re Looking For**
- Strong experience of working as a senior Programme leader across business driven programmes with multi-disciplinary teams, with significant budget.
- Strong commercial acumen with demonstrable negotiation skills and experience.
- Demonstrable contract experience and third party management skills, combined with strong knowledge and experience of outsourcing and supplier management.
- Be self-starting, results and outcome oriented, focused on driving projects forward, keeping your project team and stakeholders, engaged along the way
- Effective at driving governance, process and content delivery. Getting close enough to the detail to ensure that projects consistently deliver successfully
- Be PRINCE2 (foundation) qualified (or equivalent)

**Who are we?**

We want to be the best place that any of our 6,800 colleagues have ever worked.

We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer our 12 million customers products across our market-leading brands, including Standard Life, SunLife and ReAssure, with c.£259 billion of assets under administration. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

**We want to hire the whole version of you.**

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

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