Transformation Director

Salary: £39,600 – £48,000 per year

The Transformation Director will play a key role in building and driving Unit4’s growth and cost optimisation plan, with a platform for sustained impact and personal and professional growth. Reporting directly into the Global Head of Transformation, this individual will work on the company’s highest strategic priorities and have significant exposure to the executive team, where they will interact and collaborate with senior stakeholders across platforms and business units, working across various top-line topics.

Starting from the strategic direction defined by the company and driven/supported by the Transformation Director, the Transformation Director will articulate the Transformation program, ensure initiatives are set up for success with robust governance and ensure certainty of execution with clear prioritization. The Transformation Director will play an orchestration and enablement role to ensure successful delivery of Unit4’s Transformation: enabling the initiatives teams to deliver and enabling the executive team to take actions to support the program.

What you will do

* Define and drive strategy across different growth and cost functions including strategy definition, business case preparation and presentation for sign off

* Translating strategy into a Transformation Program (i.e., the key initiatives to be delivered)

* Supporting initiative owners in defining initiative scope and objectives, KPIs (operational and financial), and in setting up the execution plan (interdependencies, key milestones, resource needs, …)

* Ensuring execution certainty – identification of risks, assessment of options on how to mitigate risks, tracking of progress (forward-looking – i.e., identification of risks rather than missed deadlines), prioritizing issues for executive engagement

* Facilitating executive meetings for decision making – ensuring meetings are supported by the right fact-base, that the decisions and trade-offs are clearly articulated and that the decisions are clearly documented and followed through to implementation

* Supporting any detailed analysis that will enable decision making of key stakeholders

* Responsible for reviewing and presenting Business Cases to senior leadership for approval and then ensuring the proposed value is realized

* Helping with resourcing of transformational projects across internal and external stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of programmes