Transformation Senior Manager

Location: From Jan next year, it will be 3 days a week in St Albans office. Before Jan it can be flexible.

IR35 Status: Inside

Accountable for converting our clients enterprise transformation strategy into measurable business outcomes. Own the integration and execution of the Enterprise Business, Data and Technology Transformation Programme, ensuring people, process, data and technology are delivered in the right sequence to accelerate value, improve decision making and enable AI-driven capabilities. This role bridges strategy and delivery by translating an agreed transformation roadmap into disciplined execution, business adoption and realised benefits.

• Take ownership of transforming the enterprise roadmap into an executable delivery plan with clear milestones, dependencies, ownership and measurable outcomes.
• Drive delivery across multiple strategic programmes, ensuring initiatives translate into tangible operational and commercial improvements rather than remaining planning activities.
• Ensure governance, business capabilities, operating model, master data and technology are implemented in the correct sequence to maximise value.
• Lead executive governance forums, portfolio reviews and decision-making, providing recommendations on priorities, investment, delivery risk and benefits realisation.
• Provide oversight of a multi-million-pound transformation portfolio, ensuring resources remain focused on the highest-value opportunities.
• Embed delivery discipline through governance, KPI tracking, dependency management, benefits tracking and business readiness.

• Improve service, cost, cash, productivity and compliance.
• Increase speed and quality of business decisions.
• Reduce operational risk through standardised processes and trusted master data.
• Enable AI and automation through high-quality enterprise data.
• Increase adoption of new capabilities and ways of working.
• Enterprise-wide transformation spanning Supply Chain, Procurement, Planning, Product Development, Technical, Commercial, Finance, Technology and Data.
• Global, cross-functional integration across multiple markets, platforms and external partners.

• Influence executive leaders without direct authority.
• Create clarity from ambiguity and align diverse stakeholders behind common business outcomes.
• Balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution to maintain delivery momentum.

• Enterprise transformation leadership.
• Programme and PMO leadership.
• Operating model, business architecture and organisational design.
• Master Data Management and Data Governance.
• Delivery of ERP, planning, procurement or enterprise technology programmes.
• Strong commercial acumen with a proven track record of delivering measurable business value.

• Enterprise roadmap converted into an actively managed delivery programme.
• Benefits realised through measurable improvements in service, cost, cash, risk and productivity.
• Governance embedded and executive decisions accelerated.
• Future‑state operating model, capabilities and master data successfully adopted.
• Technology investments delivering tangible business outcomes rather than technical implementation alone.

This is an enterprise transformation leadership role focused on outcomes rather than coordination. The primary measure of success is the ability to convert strategic intent into sustained business performance through disciplined execution, cross‑functional leadership and measurable value delivery.