About the Role
The Head of Domain Transformation leads the delivery of strategic transformation initiatives, ensuring programmes are governed and executed to meet business objectives. This senior-level role provides leadership for large-scale transformation, establishes strong governance, and ensures initiatives are delivered on time, within budget, and to scope and quality.
Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of large and complex transformation initiatives from shaping through implementation and benefits realisation.
- Oversee programme delivery across multiple workstreams, ensuring alignment to strategic objectives.
- Manage interdependencies across initiatives for effective delivery and transition.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with senior leaders and executives.
- Act as a trusted advisor and strategic partner.
- Provide clear, concise, and impactful executive-level communications and reporting.
- Ensure robust governance structures, standards, and delivery frameworks are in place.
- Oversee planning, scheduling, forecasting, and delivery management across programmes.
- Manage risk, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
- Define and manage resource demand, including internal and external resources.
- Oversee financial management, including budgeting, forecasting, and cost control.
- Ensure strong financial governance and benefits tracking are embedded within programmes.
- Provide leadership to cross-functional teams in a matrix environment.
- Lead and develop teams ranging from small specialist groups to large-scale programme teams.
- Foster a high-performance culture focused on collaboration, accountability, and delivery excellence.
- Drive continuous improvement in transformation delivery approaches, tools, and methodologies.
- Ensure consistent application of best practice across agile and waterfall delivery models.
- Support the development of organisational capability in transformation delivery.
Requirements
- Significant experience delivering large-scale strategic transformation initiatives.
- Demonstrable experience managing complex programmes across functions and directorates.
- Strong experience working with senior stakeholders and executive leadership teams.
- Experience managing large teams within a matrix environment.
- Experience delivering complex IT, digital, or business transformation programmes is highly desirable.
- Strong leadership, communication, and influencing skills at all levels.
- Ability to lead and motivate teams in complex and ambiguous environments.
- Strong financial, commercial, and delivery management expertise.
- Proven ability to manage risk, contingency planning, and complex delivery challenges.
- Ability to challenge constructively and drive change through fact-based decision-making.
- Strong stakeholder and relationship management capability.
- Positive, proactive, and delivery-focused mindset.
- Resilient and adaptable in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
- Strong ownership and accountability for outcomes.
- Role model for organisational behaviours and ways of working.
- Commitment to continuous improvement and innovation.
Skills
- Leadership
- Communication
- Influencing
- Team Motivation
- Financial Management
- Commercial Acumen
- Delivery Management
- Risk Management
- Contingency Planning
- Stakeholder Management
- Relationship Management
Location
- Multiple locations
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior level
- Head of Domain Transformation
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Pension
- Performance bonuses
- Support for work/life balance
About the Company
- Part of International Airlines Group (IAG), a leading global airline group.
- IAG Transform provides creative and innovative solutions for sustainable transformation.
- Drives efficiencies, automation, and economies of scale through a centralised model.
Equal Opportunity
- Equal opportunities employer.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
