Transformation Office Director

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March 13, 2026 (13 days left to apply) job requisition :
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** Job Type:
** Permanent
* * Build a brilliant future with Hiscox
**** Transformation Office Director
**** Reporting to:  Chief Transformation Officer
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* Location:

London, York or Colchester
**** Advert closing date: 13th March 2026
**** About the Role
** As Hiscox drives forward its enterprise‑wide transformation, the Transformation Office Director plays a pivotal leadership role in steering, governing and assuring the delivery of the transformation programme. Operating as a Deputy to the Chief Transformation Officer (CTO), this role provides an enterprise wide lens translating strategy into a a coherent, prioritised and value driven transformation agenda supported by disciplined planning, strong senior alignment, and clear visibility of outcomes, risks and value delivery.

You will lead the Transformation Office team responsible for ensuring transformation initiatives are well‑defined, resourced, governed and aligned to strategic ambition. This includes overseeing the Transformation Programme and its core investment buckets (Fit for 10x, Non Fit for 10x, Growth, Resilience & Risk, Small Change, and Innovation Funding) maintaining the integrity and quality of the pipeline, and providing challenge and stewardship around investment decisions.

This role acts as a strategic integrator across business units and functions, balancing ambition with capacity, resolving enterprise trade-offs and ensuring that the Transformation investment delivers sustainable commercial, operational and risk outcomes.

Success in this role requires exceptional judgement, the ability to navigate senior‑level complexity, and a deep understanding of how to run transformation portfolios  blends strategic leadership, governance, cross‑functional orchestration, financial stewardship and cultural alignment to ensure Hiscox delivers sustainable, measurable outcomes.
** What You’ll Be Doing
**** Transformation Strategy & Portfolio Leadership
*** Shape and continuously evolve the enterprise transformation roadmap, ensuring that it reflects strategic priorities, sequencing and capacity
* Provide independent challenge on where we should and should not invest and the timing of these decisions
* Steward the Transformation Programme, including the Fit for 10x, Non Fit for 10x, Growth, Resilience & Risk, Small Change, and Innovation Funding. Maintaining the integrity of the transformation pipeline; challenging business case quality, scope clarity and delivery plans.
* Ensure transformation remains tightly aligned to corporate strategy, external context and emerging risks and opportunities
** Leadership of the Transformation Office
*** Build long term organisational capability in transformation leadership, governance and execution
* Own and evolve the Transformation system, embedding consistent standards, tools, frameworks and disciplines across the enterprise.
* Establish the Transformation Office as a centre of industry knowledge, insight and judgement
** Executive Governance & Financial Stewardship
*** Design and operate enterprise level governance that enables high quality, timely strategic decisions and discussions regarding transformation progress, including milestones, value delivery, risks, dependencies and key decisions.
* Partner with Finance to ensure initiatives are underpinned by robust economic logic, clear assumptions and accountability for where the benefits will be delivered.
* Ensure long‑term sustainability of benefits through clear ownership, transition into BAU, and post‑implementation value tracking.
* Provide the GEC with insight‑rich materials and perspectives on trade-offs, opportunities and focus areas.
** Enterprise Integration & Constraint Management
*** Act as the arbiter of the constraints within the Transformation programme, resolving cross‑functional bottlenecks that can not be solved within business areas
* Surface and manage risks, interdependencies and capacity…