Head of Transformation

Skills
Artificial IntelligenceBusiness TransformationChange ProgrammesDigital TransformationIT TransformationPMO Set-UpPortfolio Management
Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

Requirements

  • Career built inside top consultancy or equivalent transformation practice
  • 12 to 20 years' experience rooted in technology and digital transformation
  • Experience designing and running Transformation Offices or Enterprise PMOs from zero
  • Governance of programs spanning many workstreams significant budgets and hundreds of mobilised FTEs
  • Deep expertise in stage gates benefits tracking steering design and value assurance
  • Gravitas at ExCo and board level with confidence to challenge senior stakeholders
  • AI transformation exposure is a genuine plus but not the core requirement

Nice to have

  • Gravitas
  • Strategic mindset
  • Executive presence
  • Commercial acumen
  • Structured thinker

Day to day

  • Lead an enterprise-wide transformation program with executive sponsorship and a strong AI-enabled agenda.
  • Design and build the Transformation Office from scratch, creating the governance engine for a complex multi-workstream change portfolio.
  • Drive prioritisation, benefits realisation and executive decision making across business and technology workstreams while holding leaders accountable.