People Transformation Portfolio & Execution Lead

rollsroyce; East Midlands; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life insurance

Gym discounts

Tax free cycling

Generous annual leave

Retirement savings plan

Job summary

Rolls-Royce is seeking an experienced People Transformation Portfolio & Execution Lead to join the team in the UK. The role collaborates with People SMEs, Divisions, GBS, HR Technology and OE Leads to create an integrated view of the transformation portfolio, enabling prioritisation, sequencing and transparent decision-making.

You will drive enterprise portfolio mechanisms, governance, and execution discipline to translate strategy into measurable outcomes, while reducing the programme

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading complex, enterprise-scale transformation portfolios or programmes involving multiple functions and stakeholders.
• Proven ability to establish portfolio management, governance, prioritisation, dependency management and executive reporting.
• Strong strategic judgement to translate strategy into executable priorities for senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Lead integrated portfolio execution across the People Transformation agenda.
• Drive prioritisation, sequencing and resource capacity; surface interdependencies and make timely decisions.
• Establish and run enterprise transformation governance across multiple forums.
• Create portfolio performance insight and drive actions to resolve off-track areas.
• Build enterprise execution capability to reduce coordination burden on SMEs and OE Leads.

Skills

Portfolio leadership

Transformation programmes

Stakeholder management

Strategic governance

Delivery orientation

Job description

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.

Who were looking for:

Position requirements

• 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

Our People are our power, so when join Rolls-Royce you are offered more than a salary.

• life insurance
• gym discounts
• tax free cycling
• Generous Annual Leave
• Retirement Savings through the Rolls‑Royce Retir