Head of Change

Wesleyan ,
Birmingham, West Midlands
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Reporting directly to an Executive director we have a fantastic opportunity for a highly credible senior change leader to join our Group Operations division of Wesleyan. In this critically strategic role you will be responsible for leading and driving the delivery of the group's transformational change programme as determined by our Executive team. You will have responsibility for leading all business change activities across the society and be accountable for ensuring all changes are managed in a controlled manner as well as ensuring the capability of your team are delivering the portfolio. The successful candidate will play an integral role within the COO senior leadership team. You will work effectively at the highest level of the organisation, utilising your extensive communication and influencing skills; as a member of the Group Operations Senior Leadership team, this role will develop and deliver a track record that is recognised as a high-quality operation by colleagues, customer, stakeholders and peers, whilst ensuring value through cost and process efficiency. This is a rare senior opportunity which brings a great deal of responsibility including the need to drive financial and operational improvements through the delivery of the portfolio of business change, establish a high quality agile design and delivery capability and ultimately enhance and develop our change capability into a high performing and forward-thinking team of expert industry professionals capable of delivering large scale change at pace. The post holder will therefore require a demonstrable background with an array of wide-ranging skills and experiences gained in similar, senior leader roles. As an accomplished leader you will possess strong people leadership skills with the ability to excite, motivate, nurture and enable the success of others through collaboration and team work. We will seek to understand a demonstrable track record of leading successful change programmes in organisations of similar size and complexity - in both delivery of change and building of change capability. With extensive experience in project management and knowledge of approaches, tools (PlanView, KeyedIn, SmartCore), and phases of project lifecycles and change delivery you will have managed budgets exceeding £30m + pa. We also seek your knowledge of deployment and implementation methodologies (Agile, EDM, Infrastructure etc.) of related technical change management experience. So, what can you expect in return? On top of a generous salary with annual pay reviews you can expect: * 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (rising to 28 days with service anniversaries) and you have the option to buy/sell holiday too * Our great pension scheme is company matched, plus 2% up to 10% * Generous car allowance * Couple BUPA healthcare * Annual health assessment * Access to a wide variety of flexible benefits too; there are too many to mention but typically include things like travel loan/car parking scheme, cycle to work programme, life insurance, medical cover, financial advice * Numerous discounts designed to suit your own personal lifestyle, such as retail, health & wellbeing and leisure discounts * Employee assistance programme - we help you, take care of you! * Wesleyan also encourage you to give back to your community through 2 annual volunteering days What are you waiting for?! You've got down to here which means there's a lot of things looking right, drop us your application and we'll get back quickly as we are keen to meet you. Who are Wesleyan Wesleyan has had the interests of its members at its core since it was founded in Birmingham in 1841. In recent years, it has developed a highly successful business model providing tailored financial advice and products to select professional groups, notably GPs, hospital doctors, dentists, teachers and lawyers and a range of commercial financial products for the organisations in which they are employed. Each segment is served by dedicated Financial Consultants who work only within that segment and thus build-up specialist knowledge of their professional customers. We are all about you Please be aware that this role falls under The Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD). This is a new piece of European legislation which regulates firms who manufacture and distribute insurance products. Therefore you will need to undertake a Right to Work, and a Credit and Criminal Records check. These are subject to ongoing checks in line with the Society's Fit & Proper Policy At Wesleyan, we believe everyone has the right to proudly be themselves. Supporting each other, our members, customers and our communities as well as having a clear sense of purpose and passion for all we do, really makes a difference. We know the best teams are made up of inclusive groups of diverse people, and everyone's contribution counts. With the support of our partners and employees, we're building a culture where difference is encouraged. We set out to re

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