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About the Role
This pivotal enterprise-wide role involves shaping how transformation is prioritized, governed, and delivered across the organization. You will bring clarity to the change portfolio, strengthen governance and assurance, and ensure investment, resources, and change capability support strategic ambitions. Working closely with senior leaders, you will provide insight and constructive challenge to turn priorities into delivery, ensuring transformation delivers meaningful, sustainable value from investment planning through execution and benefits realization.
Responsibilities
- Own the enterprise-wide view of the change portfolio, integrating strategic outcomes, milestones, dependencies, risks, resource constraints, and delivery confidence.
- Lead clear, high-quality reporting for Executive and Board-level audiences on benefits, delivery risk, costs, resource capacity, and emerging themes.
- Establish and continuously improve frameworks, standards, controls, tools, and management information for effective portfolio and change management.
- Ensure portfolio management tools and data provide consistent, transparent, and evidence-based oversight of enterprise change.
- Lead assurance activity for priority programs, especially during mobilization or periods of heightened delivery risk, and support effective remediation.
- Support the Annual Operating Plan and project approval lifecycle, ensuring clear understanding of benefits, dependencies, delivery constraints, non-financial outcomes, and capacity requirements.
- Track strategic outcomes from initial ideas through delivery and benefits realization.
- Coordinate across portfolios to resolve material dependencies, resource conflicts, sequencing challenges, and enterprise-wide delivery trade-offs.
- Lead forward-looking supply-and-demand planning for change capability, including skills, capacity, sourcing, and strategic recruitment requirements.
- Strengthen accountability for portfolio decisions by ensuring risks, actions, and decisions are escalated and resolved appropriately.
- Build a strong enterprise change community to promote consistent ways of working, share insights, and develop organizational capability.
Requirements
- Experienced enterprise transformation or portfolio leader capable of operating confidently across a large, complex organization.
- Ability to combine strategic thinking with strong delivery judgment.
- Comfortable influencing and constructively challenging senior stakeholders.
- A collaborative and credible leader who can balance pace, control, and strategic ambition.
- Comfortable working with ambiguity and making pragmatic recommendations with incomplete information.
- Possess an enterprise-wide perspective, sound judgment, and the confidence to challenge constructively.
- Ability to help create a culture of accountability, inclusion, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Ensure transformation decisions are supported by robust evidence and a clear understanding of the wider organizational impact.
- A relevant degree or equivalent senior-level professional experience is required.
- A recognised portfolio, programme, project or change qualification, such as MoP, MSP, PRINCE2, APM or PMI, would be advantageous.
- A relevant leadership, finance, risk or transformation qualification would also be beneficial.
Skills
- Portfolio Management
- Change Management
- Strategic Planning
- Governance
- Risk Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Reporting
- Data Analysis
- Leadership
- Influencing
- Challenging
- Collaboration
- Accountability
- Continuous Improvement
Location
- Edinburgh
- Birmingham
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Permanent
- Part-time
- Job-share
Experience Level
- Director
- Senior-level professional experience
Education Level
- Relevant degree or equivalent senior-level professional experience
- Recognised portfolio, programme, project or change qualification (e.g., MoP, MSP, PRINCE2, APM or PMI)
- Relevant leadership, finance, risk or transformation qualification
Salary/Compensations
- £170,000 - £195,000
- Indicative bonus range of 40% to 80%
Benefits
- Private medical cover
- 38 days annual leave
- Excellent pension
- 12x salary life assurance
- Career breaks
- Income protection
- 3x volunteering days
About the Company
- Standard Life is a retirement specialist focused entirely on retirement savings and income.
- We believe everyone’s journey to and through retirement can be better.
- For over 200 years, we've been helping customers plan and prepare for their financial futures.
- We offer colleagues flexibility, trust, and benefits that work for whatever life brings.
- We expect curiosity, connection, accountability, and high standards from our colleagues.
- We make room for what matters so you can bring your best, every day.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
- If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.
- If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.