Head of Transformation

**Head of Transformation - Project Management**

**London, Cromwell Hospital**

**Flexible / Hybrid working options (e.g. up to 3 days WFH)**

**Permanent**

**Salary from: £72k DOE + bonus + fantastic benefits**

**37.5 hours per week**

Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.

Working in our UK support functions you’ll play a key part in helping our customer facing colleagues deliver exceptional standards of customer service and patient care. No matter your role, you’ll have an opportunity to do work that matters. Making a difference to the lives of our customers each and every day.

**Role Overview**:
As Head of Transformation you will be project managing a wide range of business projects and programs within the Cromwell Hospital and broader Bupa Health Services businesses. This may encompass all stages of the project life cycle including investigation, analysis of business requirements, identification of solutions, implementation and post implementation review. It is a critical role supporting delivery of the business’s transformation strategy, covering a diverse range of strategic ambitions, requiring collaboration with a broad mix of stakeholders.

**What you’ll do**:

- Manage delivery of multiple, simultaneous projects using a recognised, sound development approach to ensure that objectives are met within timescales and budget
- Identify the scope of projects and define work streams and their deliverables, setting challenging but realistic timescales for delivery and building overall project plan
- Responsibility for the management and delivery of the project plan, building a business case and ensuring that the project meets its objectives and is delivered to budget and on time
- Report progress to the business sponsor and other interested parties, ensuring that issues are raised and dealt with, connecting with processes as required
- Challenge the direction and scope of projects, identifying and encouraging radical opportunities and assist in developing ideas, solutions and resolutions
- Create and manage effective relationships with key business stakeholders to maximise successful delivery and to be connected to the wider change and transformation agenda
- Champion agile working, build and embed appropriate project management tools and approaches to support and proactively develop structure to maximise successful project delivery

**What you’ll bring**:

- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to manage and motivate others by encouraging participation and ownership
- Project Management experience with expertise in Agile methodologies
- Flexible attitude to change well versed in the principles of change management with ability to coach others through the process of change
- Able to take a non-directive approach to problems, work with teams to provide processes to enable others to reach their own solutions
- Builds and maintain credible relationships, instils confidence and trust in colleagues by demonstrating a sound knowledge and understanding
- Ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels within an organisation
- Ability to influence and persuade, through highlighting common benefits and negotiating with relevant parties to achieve results.
- Able to prioritise multiple projects and agendas to bring a successful delivery, including in a pressurised environment

**Why Bupa?**

We are a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. We reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers.

Our benefits are driven by what matters to our people. It’s important to us that these benefits support a work-life balance that keeps people healthy, both mentally and physically. You will be eligible for:
**- 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell**

**- Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind**

**- An enhanced pension plan and life insurance**

**- Annual performance-based bonus**

**- Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available**

**- Various other benefits and online discounts**

**Diversity and Inclusion**

Bupa is committed to making sure that every applicant is assessed solely on personal merit and qualifications. We actively celebrate the diversity of our colleagues and provide an inclusive environment so you can bring your true self to Bupa. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly. That’s why we’re happy to offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
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