Head of Strategic Change Programmes - London, United Kingdom - William Hill

William Hill

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Location
London, UK

Hours

3- We're looking for a Head of Strategic Change Programmes who can lead and mentor a group of exceptional Project Managers, reporting directly into the Strategic Change Director.

Our Strategic Change team are focused on delivering the Product & Tech critical strategy roadmap items, ranging from platform migrations, and new market expansions, to significant compliance programmes of work.

About us

Our people are at the heart of everything we do, and we offer a fastpaced environment where we have fun, celebrate success and give you all the tools you'll need to be your best self. It's not just our colleagues we look after we've got a responsibility to our customers too and we work hard on our ambition that nobody is harmed by gambling.

Your role within the team

You will be responsible for collating and aligning the requirements coming from the multiple functions and ensuring that we have a clear and singleminded view across all departments of our strategic initiatives. A key element of the role will be to deliver key change programmes as part of our Product & Technology strategic plan. You will also be responsible for ensuring a quality programme management service is delivered to a variety of senior stakeholders.
You'll also:
Lead a team of Project Managers, setting best in class practices. (RAID, Scoping, Stakeholder management, finances, process mapping, dependency management etc)
Identify and manage mitigation for programme level risks
Design and deliver a clear roadmap of activities to achieve our strategic plan.
Work closely with the Director of Strategic Change to align on activities across the whole Strategic Change Programme.
Expert Project Management of complex migration projects with technical awareness.
Measure and track the success criteria for our change initiatives and support the company on illustrating the benefits of the strategic changes we are making.

Skills needed

We're looking for someone with extensive project management experience and organizational skills with an orientation to being data and research led in your thinking.
You'll have a proven track record of working in a matrix structure and collaborating with a wide network of colleagues

In addition, you'll have:

Proven track record of working in a matrix structure and collaborating with a wide network of colleagues.
Experience on delivering and completing successful change programs.
Excellent problemsolving skills, ability to think strategically and critically in developing efficient approaches to change.
Experience in managing significant change programs for medium or large businesses.
Excellent stakeholder management skills to a senior level and have the ability to articulate our strategic vision to the business.
Ability to translate complex challenges into easy to digest workable solutions.
Fast paced and agile in thinking, supporting a rapid and efficient delivery of change through all areas of the business.

Desirable Skills

Software delivery experience
AWS Cloud experience

What we offer

We have welcomed our teams back to the office and have a balanced approach to office and home working. Our employees have the opportunity to work from home up to 80% of the time with 20% of office time built in to ensure we get some facetoface collaborative team time and the chance for a coffee and a catch up
We'll welcome you onboard with 25 days holiday (not to mention 8 bank holidays and an extra day for your birthday), a rewarding bonus scheme, healthcare, an attractive pension package and benefits scheme. Plus, our season ticket loan and handy Metro Card loan will save you money getting to work and getting around town. And if you see the journey to work as part of your fitness regime, you'll just love our Cycle to Work scheme.

888 William Hill in London and Leeds

We couldn't be closer to the action in our London office. A 2minute walk from Tottenham Court Road station, round the corner from Soho and Oxford Street means you'll never be short of anywhere to go for a lunchtime stroll or a postwork drink. There's plenty of green space too with Regent's Park and Hyde Park not far away at all. Working in our London office you'll also benefit from a heavily discounted Zone 6 travel card so you'll be whizzing around London in no time.
Our Leeds office sits right in the middle of the creative heart of the UK. Leeds itself is a buzzy, busy place to work and live. A hub for tech, digital and gaming companies there's also five universities right on our doorstep. And away from work, we're in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales and of course have got a competitive sports scene with Leeds United and Yorkshire Cricket and Rugby just up the road in Headingley.