Strategic Transformation Architect

Card Factory; Wakefield; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Card Factory is seeking an experienced Business Architect to join our Transformation team. You will shape enterprise-level strategic changes, owning initiatives like Celebrations and accelerating omnichannel growth.

Based in Wakefield, the role offers hybrid working with 2-3 days in the office, collaborating with senior leaders across Retail, Digital and Supply Chain. You’ll design future-state operating models, organisation structures and governance to enable sustainable growth, while ensuring

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Business Architecture, Strategic Transformation, Organisation Design or Enterprise Design roles.
• Experience designing future-state operating models, organisational structures, business capabilities and transformation roadmaps.
• Strong understanding of organisational design principles, business architecture frameworks and large-scale business change programmes.
• Proven ability to analyse organisational effectiveness, identify improvement opportunities and develop recommendations that support business strategy.
• Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders and executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• You’ll lead the shaping and assessment of strategic initiatives, working with senior leaders to define business challenges, opportunities and desired outcomes before programmes are mobilised.
• You’ll create structured approaches for evaluating investment opportunities and developing compelling recommendations that support strategic decision-making.
• A key part of the role will involve designing, developing and implementing organisation models that enable the business to achieve its strategic objectives.
• You’ll assess how teams, processes, capabilities and governance structures operate today, identifying opportunities to optimise organisational effectiveness, improve collaboration and support future growth.
• Using business insight, data and industry best practice, you’ll develop recommendations for future organisation structures, operating models and ways of working that align with the wider business strategy.
• You’ll develop and maintain business capability models, future-state business architectures and transformation roadmaps, identifying capability gaps and ensuring people, process, technology and data considerations are fully integrated into transformation plans.

Skills

Business Architecture

Strategic Transformation

Organisation Design

Enterprise Design

Stakeholder Management

Job description

Card Factory is seeking an experienced Business Architect to join our Transformation team. You will shape enterprise-level strategic changes, owning initiatives like Celebrations and accelerating omnichannel growth.

Based in Wakefield, the role offers hybrid working with 2-3 days in the office, collaborating with senior leaders across Retail, Digital and Supply Chain. You’ll design future-state operating models, organisation structures and governance to enable sustainable growth, while ensuring