Head of Business Transformation 

Business Transformation Team – UK Personal Investor (UKPI) 

Manchester 

About the Role 

The Business Transformation Team is at the heart of UKPI’s enterprise change, driving alignment across business units to visualize priorities, enable strategic objectives, and foster operational resilience and commercial efficiency. The team empowers teams with agile governance, balancing short-term focus with long-term vision to deliver measurable value across silos, while retaining bottom-up ownership within streams and peers. 

We are seeking a strategic leader to own and evolve the central control framework for portfolio delivery. This role is pivotal in translating strategy into an executable change portfolio, ensuring disciplined execution, and embedding a culture of continuous improvement across the organization. 

What You’ll Do 

• Translate strategic priorities into annual and 3–5 year change roadmaps, ensuring a unified, prioritized portfolio of change initiatives. 

• Act as executive sponsor for key programmes (e.g., Platform Modernisation, Regulatory, Data), maintaining senior team alignment. 

• Oversee standardized governance, reporting, and financial controls, including RAID management. 

• Coordinate delivery across technology, operations, and business lines, bridging strategy and execution to ensure traceability of requirements to benefits. 

• Monitor delivery performance and benefit realization, operating stage-gate and benefit-tracking processes. 

• Develop and present MI packs for ExCo and Board, providing clear visibility of progress, trade-offs, and opportunities. 

• Establish and maintain the change taxonomy, ensuring alignment with Offer, Platform, and Technology strategies. 

• Ensure business readiness and alignment with the Target Operating Model, integrating change across the organization. 

• Drive a culture of disciplined execution and continuous improvement, leveraging business partners, product managers, and teams to align change with business priorities. 

What We’re Looking For 

• Significant experience in business transformation, portfolio management, or a related leadership role. 

• Proven ability to translate strategy into actionable change portfolios and deliver measurable outcomes. 

• Strong track record of leading cross-functional teams and managing complex, multi-year change initiatives. 

• Expertise in governance frameworks, financial controls, and benefit realization. 

• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels and across business lines. 

• Strong analytical, reporting, and communication skills, with experience producing executive-level materials. 

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience preferred. 

Why join us? 

Our UK Personal Investing business are committed to delivering measurable value and shaping the future of our business through innovation, disciplined execution, and strategic excellence. The goal is to change the way Europe invests.  

In return, we offer an attractive base salary, an annual performance bonus paid in February, a Partnership bonus paid in June, and competitive benefits. We have a hybrid working policy with most roles based in the office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, and Mondays and Fridays from home. 

As one of the world’s largest asset management companies, we can offer career opportunities in Manchester and further afield. Join the Business Transformation Team and play a central role in driving enterprise change, empowering teams and delivering lasting impact.