People Transformation Portfolio & Execution Lead

Rolls-Royce; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous Annual Leave

Retirement Savings through the Rolls‑R

Group Life Assurance

Group Income Protection

Your Shares: Matched

Digital GP

Employee Assistance (EAP) and LiveWell

Job summary

Rolls-Royce is seeking a seasoned People Transformation Portfolio & Execution Lead to accelerate the People Function transformation agenda. The role spans UK locations and collaborates with People SMEs, Divisions, GBS, HR Technology and OE Leads to deliver an enterprise‑wide portfolio view, governance and execution discipline.

You will enable prioritisation, sequencing and transparent decision‑making, embedding governance and improving cross-functional delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience leading enterprise-scale transformation portfolios or programmes with multiple functions and stakeholders.
• Ability to establish portfolio management, governance, prioritisation and dependency management.
• Ability to translate strategy into executable priorities and decisions for senior leaders.
• Strong stakeholder influence across organisational boundaries and cross-functional collaboration.
• Proven delivery orientation and capability to establish execution disciplines at pace.

Responsibilities

• Lead integrated portfolio execution across People transformation initiatives, aligning priorities, milestones and dependencies.
• Create portfolio mechanisms for prioritisation, sequencing and resource capacity with governance alignment.
• Design and embed multi-layered governance rhythms for the transformation portfolio.
• Provide transparency on portfolio performance and drive interventions to resolve issues.
• Reduce PMO burden while enabling SMEs to focus on transformation outcomes.

Skills

Portfolio management

Stakeholder leadership

Strategic judgement

Delivery orientation

Executive reporting

Job description

People Transformation Portfolio & Execution Lead

Any UK location

Full Time – Permanent

We are looking for an experienced People Transformation Portfolio & Execution Lead to join the team. Working across People SMEs, Divisions, GBS, HR Technology and OE Leads, the role will establish an integrated view of the transformation portfolio, enabling effective prioritisation, sequencing, dependency management and transparent decision-making.

Why join Rolls‑Royce?

At Rolls‑Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

By joining Rolls‑Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world‑class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high‑performance culture.

About The Role

The People Transformation Portfolio & Execution Lead will play a critical role in accelerating the execution of the People Function transformation agenda, creating the enterprise‑wide portfolio management, governance and execution discipline required to translate strategy into measurable outcomes.

What You Will Be Doing

• 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. This reflects existing People Function technology governance, where changes are assessed against strategy, budget and implementation capacity and can require prioritisation against the existing plan.
• 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. Existing People Function governance already distinguishes responsibilities for sponsorship, assessment, coordination, tracking and decision‑making, providing an important foundation to build upon rather than duplicate.
• 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.

Position Requirements

Who were looking for:

• 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.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience of large‑scale People, HR, operating model, technology or enterprise transformation.
• Experience working across business, functional, shared‑services and technology organisations in a complex global environment.
• Experience developing portfolio management capabilities, governance frameworks and decision‑support mechanisms rather than simply operating established PMO processes.
• Understanding of recognised programme/project management, transformation and continuous‑improvement disciplines.
• Experience supporting executive governance forums and translating complex programme information into clear choices and decisions.

Regional Benefits

• Generous Annual Leave
• Retirement Savings through the Rolls‑Royce Retirement Savings Trust
• Group Life Assurance provides for a lump sum benefit if you die whilst employed by Rolls‑Royce
• Group Income Protection provides an income in the event that you are unable to work due to illness or injury
• Your Shares: Matched is a simple way to own Rolls‑Royce shares and invest in our future, together. Buy one share, get one free!
• Digital GP provides a convenient way for you to access GP consultations
• Employee Assistance (EAP) and Live Well programmes

Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi‑year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls‑Royce into a high‑performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.

Rolls‑Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non‑discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.

Close Date: 24.11.2026