DE&S Head of Business Change

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualification & Requirements

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.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £88,200, Ministry of Defence contributes £25,551 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%