Transformation Delivery Guild

Overview

You lead the Change Guild at AXA UKI, defining the vision for capacity and capability to deliver at scale. You align change delivery with AXA’s long-term strategy across products and projects, leading governance, budget, and partnerships. You foster a culture of excellence, collaboration and continuous improvement, delivering high-impact change across programmes, projects and products in a hybrid model. This is a strategic, cross-functional role that shapes how we source talent and develop capability for future demand.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Contributory pension (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10x annual salary)
• Private medical cover
• 28 days annual leave + Bank Holidays

Responsibilities

• Define the vision and objectives of the Change Guild aligned to AXA’s delivery strategy
• Provide technical and people leadership across change disciplines using PMO, business change and business analysis
• Coordinate delivery requirements with Portfolio Management and Tribe Leadership for multiple Tribes/Products
• Manage resource allocation and capacity across the change portfolio to meet demand
• Lead workforce planning and build partnerships to source capacity and capability
• Drive professional standards, frameworks, tools, templates and KPIs for consistent change delivery
• Own the Change Guild investment strategy, including budgeting for upskilling, tools and enablement

Key requirements

• Extensive experience across programme, project and product delivery in large, complex organisations
• Broad understanding of PMO, business change and business analysis
• Proven experience in Agile environments (Kanban and Lean) with iterative delivery
• Proficient in workforce planning and forecasting demand for change professionals in UKI
• Effective communicator and influencer with senior stakeholders
• Experience designing development frameworks, learning pathways and coaching programmes
• Budget management and advocacy for investment in people and capability
• Passionate about community building and continuous learning

• stakeholder management
• influence and negotiation
• collaboration
• PMO
• business change
• business analysis

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