Enterprise People Transformation & Execution Lead

Rolls-Royce Corporation; East Midlands; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits

Generous annual leave

Retirement savings

Group life assurance

Income protection

Employee shares (Matched)

Digital GP

EAP & Live Well

Job summary

Rolls‑Royce is seeking an experienced People Transformation Portfolio & Execution Lead to accelerate the transformation agenda across the People Function. You will establish an enterprise‑wide portfolio management, governance and execution discipline aimed at translating strategy into measurable outcomes.

You will build an integrated portfolio view across SMEs, Divisions, GBS and HR Technology, enabling prioritisation, sequencing and transparency.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading complex, enterprise‑scale transformation portfolios or programmes involving multiple functions, stakeholders and interconnected workstreams.
• Demonstrable experience establishing and operating portfolio management, programme governance, prioritisation, dependency management, risk management and executive reporting disciplines.
• Strong strategic judgement with the ability to translate strategy into executable priorities and to identify and frame portfolio‑level choices, trade‑offs and interventions for senior leaders.
• Strong stakeholder leadership and influencing capability, with experience operating across organisational boundaries and aligning senior stakeholders where accountabilities and priorities intersect.
• Strong delivery orientation, with the ability to create structure in complex and changing environments and establish effective execution disciplines at pace.

Responsibilities

• Lead integrated portfolio execution: Establish and maintain an enterprise view of the People transformation portfolio across SMEs, Divisions, GBS and HR Technology, connecting priorities, milestones, interdependencies, capacity, risks and outcomes into one coherent execution plan.
• Drive prioritisation and enterprise trade‑offs: Create the portfolio mechanisms that enable leadership to make explicit choices on priorities, sequencing and resource capacity, ensuring competing demands and dependencies are surfaced early and translated into timely decisions.
• Establish and run transformation governance: Design, establish and embed the multi‑layered governance rhythm for the transformation portfolio, ensuring the right issues, decisions, risks and dependencies flow efficiently through programme, SME and leadership governance forums.
• Create execution transparency and intervention: Establish consistent portfolio performance insight, identifying areas that are off‑track, cross‑functional dependencies, delivery constraints and decisions requiring intervention, and drive actions through to resolution.
• Build an enterprise execution capability: Reduce the programme management and coordination burden on specialist teams, enabling SMEs to focus on functional expertise and transformation outcomes while improving the flow of information between SMEs, OE Leads, Divisions, GBS and HR Technology.

Job description

Rolls‑Royce is seeking an experienced People Transformation Portfolio & Execution Lead to accelerate the transformation agenda across the People Function. You will establish an enterprise‑wide portfolio management, governance and execution discipline aimed at translating strategy into measurable outcomes.

You will build an integrated portfolio view across SMEs, Divisions, GBS and HR Technology, enabling prioritisation, sequencing and transparency.