Head of Delivery

The opportunity

This role plays a key part in delivering the organisation’s Value Creation Plan, partnering closely with executives and senior leaders to turn strategic priorities into tangible outcomes. Working across the business, you’ll help shape and define new initiatives, provide leadership and oversight across multiple programmes, and ensure delivery is on time, within budget and achieving the intended benefits. As part of the Change & Transformation leadership team, you’ll also take a hands-on approach where needed, while leading and developing a team of Programme and Project Managers to continuously strengthen delivery capability

The Benefits

• Salary - £78,000 to £110,000
• Bonus scheme - on target bonus - 17.5%
• Pension scheme - contribute up to 5% of your salary and Openwork will match you and put in an extra 5%
• Critical illness cover
• Income protection
• Death in service - 4x salary
• 27 days holiday + bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy up to an additional 10 days
• A range of other flexible benefits to include private medical insurance, dental insurance and much more.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the successful delivery of key strategic programmes, ensuring they are on time, within budget, and aligned to business outcomes
• Partner closely with Exec sponsors and business owners to shape, plan and deliver initiatives that support the Value Creation Plan
• Provide delivery oversight, assurance, and day-to-day leadership to programme teams, ensuring best practice and governance standards are followed
• Act as a trusted adviser, solving complex problems, removing blockers, and driving progress through proactive engagement
• Contribute to wider Change & Transformation leadership, including portfolio planning, managing dependencies, and improving ways of working
• Lead, develop and line manage Programme and Project Managers while fostering a collaborative, high-performing team culture

What will you need to succeed?

• Significant experience leading large, complex change and transformation programmes, ideally within financial services
• Proven track record of delivering across operational, regulatory, technology and strategic initiatives in fast-paced environments
• Strong experience managing multiple programmes simultaneously and aligning change activity to strategic goals
• Established people leader with a track record of developing and supporting Change professionals
• Deep knowledge of programme delivery, governance, prioritisation, budgeting and resource management, with expertise across key business areas
• Highly effective communicator and influencer, with strong leadership, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and delivery-focused skills

Why us?

At The Openwork Partnership, we're a dynamic, fast paced, and growing business with huge ambition. This is all made possible by the brilliant people who are part of The Openwork Partnership family. We're investing heavily in our colleagues, continuously striving to give them the platform to develop personally and professionally and reach their full potential. We’re also very proud of our culture, as one of the Best 100 Large Companies to work for in 2022. The Openwork Partnership values, and respects individuality and we are committed to building an inclusive culture and environment which truly recognises and celebrates our colleague’s individual differences and identities – just like our financial advice, for us, it’s personal. We believe everyone can make a difference and your race, religion, disability, and gender will never be a barrier. At Openwork, we have a strong ethic of care for each other where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. We believe that you will bring your best self to work if you are trusted to choose when, where and how you do it.