As the Head of Change for DE&S, you will play a crucial role in ensuring we continue to evolve the organisation towards our north star of Operational Excellence. The role demands strategic thinking, portfolio management, influencing key stakeholders and the ability to balance the many change initiatives alongside the needs of our mission partners. You will be part of a diverse working community and this position will be part of the Senior Leadership Group to collaborate, share ideas and support each other.

• Help to instil a culture of continuous improvement across DE&S, providing the tools and techniques to enable true and lasting change.
• Integrate all (non-Equipment Programme) business change across DE&S to ensure coherence and alignment to the strategy and operating model in an operationally excellent way. From multi-million pound infrastructure investment, large scale digital solution development and implementation and integrating with large scale Defence wide change programmes (e.g around Shared Services and Asset management systems).
• Be alive to changes across the Defence Enterprise, that will have implications for DE&S embedding that in our E2E approaches. Whilst also identifying where change is needed across the Enterprise for the benefit of DE&S and influencing accordingly.
• Enable Project Professionals to lead multi-functional teams to deliver successful change across DE&S business areas; providing tools, techniques and developing the capability for change across the organisation.
• Apply appropriate project management disciplines, tools and techniques to plan, monitor and report delivery in a timely, objective and transparent manner, for individual change projects and for the change portfolio as a whole.
• Manage internal and external stakeholders and dependencies effectively to ensure and maintain alignment.
• Maintain a firm focus on benefit realisation and demonstration and ensure that effort is not wasted on initiatives that will not achieve the intended benefits; instilling a backlog mentality across the organisation.
• Help to instil a culture of continuous improvement across DE&S, providing the tools and techniques to enable true and lasting change.
• Integrate all (non-Equipment Programme) business change across DE&S to ensure coherence and alignment to the strategy and operating model in an operationally excellent way. From multi-million pound infrastructure investment, large scale digital solution development and implementation and integrating with large scale Defence wide change programmes (e.g around Shared Services and Asset management systems).
• Be alive to changes across the Defence Enterprise, that will have implications for DE&S embedding that in our E2E approaches. Whilst also identifying where change is needed across the Enterprise for the benefit of DE&S and influencing accordingly.
• Enable Project Professionals to lead multi-functional teams to deliver successful change across DE&S business areas; providing tools, techniques and developing the capability for change across the organisation.
• Apply appropriate project management disciplines, tools and techniques to plan, monitor and report delivery in a timely, objective and transparent manner, for individual change projects and for the change portfolio as a whole.
• Manage internal and external stakeholders and dependencies effectively to ensure and maintain alignment.
• Maintain a firm focus on benefit realisation and demonstration and ensure that effort is not wasted on initiatives that will not achieve the intended benefits; instilling a backlog mentality across the organisation.

Essential Criteria

• A proven track record of values-based leadership, including a proactive commitment to diversity & inclusion with demonstrable experience of maintaining a psychologically safe, positive and inclusive environment.
• Confident in leading people, challenging cultures and leading change.
• Demonstrable experience of senior stakeholder engagement, including with non-finance decision makers, and understanding of the importance of partnering, constructive challenge and accountability.
• Experience of successfully managing complex portfolios
• Understanding of Agile and other project management techniques

Qualifications

A project professional qualification is essential and a business change qualification is desirable.