People Transformation Portfolio Lead – Enterprise Execution

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

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.