Transformation Portfolio Director

AdvancedMD; City of Westminster; Sur place; GBP 90 000 - 140 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

AdvancedMD is seeking a Transformation Portfolio Director to join our Global Enterprise Operations team in the UK. You will own end-to-end portfolio orchestration, prioritisation, and delivery across complex transformation initiatives within a payments context.

You will lead strategic programmes, shape operating models, and drive decision-making with senior stakeholders, ensuring momentum and clear delivery outcomes in a dynamic, matrixed environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading complex transformation portfolios and delivering large-scale programmes in a matrixed organisation.
• Experience working with ExCo-1 / LT level senior leadership.
• Experience designing and implementing Target Operating Models (including organisational design).
• Strong ability to influence outcomes across diverse stakeholders and varying delivery maturity.
• Judgement in prioritisation and decision support for senior stakeholders.
• Ability to operate in complex, ambiguous environments with pace and clarity.
• Bonus: experience in mixed funding models (investment-funded and self-funded initiatives).
• Track record building or uplifting portfolio, programme, or project delivery capability.
• Delivery certifications (e.g., MSP, PMP, SAFe, Lean) applied pragmatically.

Responsabilités

• Lead end-to-end orchestration of the Global Enterprise Operations transformation portfolio, prioritising and sequencing initiatives for deliverable results.
• Facilitate executive-level prioritisation and trade-off decisions, translating strategy into actionable portfolio outcomes.
• Directly lead a subset of strategic transformation programmes with hands-on oversight.
• Shape and drive elements of the Global Enterprise Operations Target Operating Model (TOM).
• Maintain momentum and accountability across initiatives by surfacing risks and driving progress.
• Design and implement TOMs, including organisational design, to align structure with strategy.
• Influence outcomes across stakeholders and drive delivery without formal authority.
• Frame trade-offs (scope, funding, timing, capacity) to guide senior stakeholders to pragmatic decisions.
• Operate effectively in complex, ambiguous environments with structure and pace.
• Possibly experience with mixed funding models and related benefits realisation.
• Build or uplift portfolio or delivery capability within a function or business unit.
• Hold recognised delivery or transformation certifications (e.g., MSP, PMP, SAFe, Lean) applied pragmatically.

Connaissances

Transformation portfolio leadership

Programme delivery in matrixed org

Stakeholder management

Target Operating Model design

Organisational design

Prioritisation and decision framing

Influence without authority

Delivery in ambiguous environments

Delivery certifications (MSP, PMP, SAf

Description du poste

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We're looking for a Transformation Portfolio Director to join our ever evolving Global Enterprise Operations team and help us unleash the potential of every business. What you'll own as the Transformation Portfolio Director

• Lead the end-to-end orchestration of the Global Enterprise Operations transformation portfolio, ensuring initiatives are prioritised, sequenced, and collectively deliverable in a complex, evolving environment
• Facilitate executive-level prioritisation and trade-off decisions (quarterly and monthly), translating strategy into clear, actionable portfolio outcomes
• Directly lead a subset of strategic transformation programmes, providing hands‑on oversight to maintain momentum, resolve issues, and ensure delivery of intended outcomes
• Shape and drive elements of the Global Enterprise Operations Target Operating Model (TOM), ensuring alignment between structure, capability, and strategic ambition
• Maintain momentum and accountability across initiatives by challenging sponsorship, surfacing risks early, and ensuring decisions translate into tangible delivery progress

  Proven experience leading complex transformation portfolios while directly delivering large-scale programmes in a matrixed organisation, with exposure to senior leadership (ExCo-1 / LT level)

• Demonstrated ability to design and implement Target Operating Models, including organisational design (OD), and translate high‑level intent into executable, sustained change
• Strong track record of influencing outcomes and driving delivery without formal authority, particularly across diverse stakeholders and varying levels of delivery maturity
• Highly developed judgement in prioritisation and decision support, with the ability to frame trade‑offs (scope, funding, timing, capacity) and guide senior stakeholders to clear, pragmatic decisions
• Ability to operate effectively in complex, ambiguous environments, bringing structure, pace, and clarity where information, alignment, or delivery confidence may be incomplete
• It's a bonus if you have Experience working within mixed funding models (e.g. investment‑funded and self‑funded initiatives) and navigating associated delivery and benefits realisation challenges
• A track record of building or uplifting portfolio, programme, or project delivery capability within a function or business unit
• A recognised delivery or transformation certification (e.g. MSP, PMP, SAFe, Lean), applied pragmatically rather than prescriptively

  What makes a Worldpayer? It's simple: Think, Act, Win. We stay curious, always asking the right questions and finding creative solutions to simplify the complex. We're dynamic, every Worldpayer is empowered to make the right decisions for their customers. And we're determined, always staying open and winning and failing as one.