Are yo ready tochart yor own career path? With or refreshed strategy, we're bilding on or rich heritage and transforming or bsiness to be more scalable and efficient, nlocking the capabilities needed for ftre sccess. This incldes significantly investing in technology, streamlining the way we work and creating an environment where colleages feel engaged, empowered and accontable; where they can show p, speak p and perform - becase we believe in the difference or work makes.

At a glance:

Location: London - Paddington

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Employment Type: 36 month Fixed-Term Contract

Seniority: Director

The role

We are looking for an otstanding Programme Director (ERP) to gide a major bsiness transformation at St. James's Place. This role will develop and implement a ftre-ready operating model by integrating Finance, People, Data, and Technology with a top ERP and HCM platform.

This is not a technology implementation. It involves a fndamental shift in managing financial performance, empowering people, sing data for decisions, and delivering operational excellence. The sccessfl candidate will transform technology, processes, data, controls, and organisational capability in a balanced and coordinated way, crafting long-term vale for colleages, cstomers, shareholders, and reglators.

We are seeking a proven transformation exective who has sccessflly led large-scale ERP and HCM-enabled transformations within complex organisations. Collaborating with Exective Committee members, senior bsiness leaders, Technology teams, delivery partners, and external advisers, the individal will offer strategic leadership, foster alignment, and ensre the transformation prodces measrable and lasting bsiness reslts.
Key Responsibilities of the Job:

Enterprise Transformation Leadership

Define and lead the overall transformation strategy, roadmap, and delivery approach.

Establish a clear vision that aligns bsiness goals, technology capabilities, and organisational otcomes.

Drive a coordinated transformation across Finance, People, Data, and Technology.

Ensre people, process, data, and technology factors are given eqal priority throghot the programme lifecycle.

Bild and maintain momentm, alignment, and exective sponsorship.

Lead mobilisation activities inclding argment refinement, programme governance, partner selection, and target operating model development.

Exective Collaborator Leadership

Bild positive relationships with Exective Committee members, senior leaders, and Board partners.

Act as a strategic adviser to exective sponsors, bringing insight, challenge, and independent jdgement.

Align complex grops of collaborators behind a common transformation vision and strategic objectives.

Bild decision making relating to operating models, capability, investment priorities, and organisational change.

Navigate competing priorities and organisational complexity to maintain pace and momentm.

Provide high-qality reporting, assrance, and recommendations to governance forms and Boards.

Inflence, challenge, and spport collaborators constrctively to achieve the best otcomes for the Grop.

Maintain confidence across exective collaborators, ensring clear visibility of progress, risks, vale, and otcomes.

ERP & HCM Delivery Leadership

Provide leadership across all phases of implementation inclding strategy, composition, bild, testing, deployment, and stabilisation.

Ensre delivery remains passionate abot bsiness otcomes rather than technology implementation achievements.

Challenge implementation partners and vendors effectively to improve vale and delivery qality.

Drive disciplined decision making on scope, bild choices, and prioritisation.

Ensre programme risks, dependencies, and isses are proactively identified and managed.

Maintain rigoros governance standards whilst delivering at pace.

Data Transformation & Governance

Develop a clear enterprise data approach to spport Finance and People transformation objectives.

Recognise data as a vital element for sccess and ensre decisions back ftre reporting, analytics, reglatory needs, and decision making.

Drive improvements in data qality, ownership, governance, and accontability.

Coordinate migration strategy and readiness activities.

Ensre data architectre and governance choices spport ftre reporting, analytics, reglatory reqirements, and AI-enabled capabilities.

Bild balanced ownership models that persist beyond programme completion.

Technology & Architectre Partnership

Work in close partnership with Technology leadership, recognising Technology as a key collaborator and owner of long-term platform spport.

Balance bsiness reqirements with technology strategy and architectral principles.

Ensre sccessfl integration across the enterprise technology landscape.

Drive decisions that optimise simplicity, scalability, resilience, and long-term maintainability.

Foster strong collaboration between bsiness and technology teams throghot the transformation.

Operating Model & Process Transformation

Lead the overhal and harmonisation of essential Finance and People processes.

Ensre ftre-state processes' leverage leading practices while meeting SJP's reglatory and operational reqirements.

Qestion traditional methods of operation and promote simplification whenever feasible.

Establish clear accontability, controls, and governance within the ftre operating model.

Ensre bsiness readiness and operational sstainability following implementation.

Vale Realisation & Performance

Define and maintain a comprehensive benefits realisation framework aligned to the approved argment.

Set initial performance benchmarks and reslt indicators across Finance, People, and Enterprise fnctions.

Garantee that bsiness leadership teams have explicit responsibility for benefit delivery.

Track, govern, and report vale delivery throghot implementation and post-go-live phases.

Identify and address risks to benefit realisation, ensring corrective action is taken where reqired.

Drive the sccessfl transition from programme ownership to balanced bsiness ownership.

Ensre strategic investments translate into tangible improvements in performance, efficiency, controls, and ser experience.

Partner & Vendor Leadership

Direct and maintain relationships with principal implementation partners inclding Big 4 conslting firms and global system integrators.

Bild collaborative relationships whilst providing appropriate challenge and maintaining clear accontability for delivery, qality, and vale.

Challenge assmptions, recommendations, and delivery approaches where necessary.

Leverage market expertise and indstry relationships to accelerate delivery and redce risk.

Maintain a strong external network across ERP, HCM, and transformation commnities, peers, advisers, and vendors.

Change, Adoption & Organisational Readiness

Ensre organisational change is incorporated throghot each phase of the transformation programme.

Drive lasting behavioral, organisational, and cltral change, not simply system adoption.

Bild leadership ownership and accontability for transformation otcomes.

Bild a compelling case for change and maintain engagement across all impacted adiences.

Ensre colleages are eqipped with the skills, capability, and spport reqired to scceed in the ftre-state environment.

Establish balanced adoption and reinforcement mechanisms to embed new ways of working.

Deliver measrable improvements in ser experience, engagement, and operational efficiency.

Ensre benefits are achieved and sstained beyond debt.

What yo will bring

Essential

Extensive backgrond managing enterprise-wide ERP and HCM transformations within large, complex organisations.

Proven experience leading sccessfl enterprise transformation programmes.

Demonstrable track record of delivering complex transformation programmes spanning mltiple bsiness fnctions.

Significant backgrond directing Big 4 conslting firms, system integrators, and prominent technology vendors.

Solid knowledge of Finance and Hman Resorces operating models and processes.

Experience leading enterprise data transformation and migration activities.

Otstanding exective collaborator management and inflencing skills.

Deep programme governance, risk management, and transformation leadership experience.

Experience operating within highly reglated environments.

Strong commercial competence with responsibility for significant programme bdgets.

Highly Desirable

Financial Services, Wealth Management, Banking or Insrance sector experience.

Experience delivering transformation within FTSE 1 organisations.

Knowledge of modern clod architectre and enterprise platforms.

Experience developing target operating models and shared service capabilities.

Previos accontability for post-go-live vale realisation and benefits delivery.

Bsiness Expertise

A recognised transformation leader who has sccessflly developed and delivered major enterprise-wide bsiness change programmes. Combines strategic vision with disciplined exection and is able to mobilise large organisations behind a common prpose.

What's in it for yo?

Whatever stage of life yo're in, or benefits are designed to provide the spport, flexibility, and peace of mind yo need to thrive both at work and beyond.

In addition to or discretionary annal bons scheme, which reflects both individal and company performance, yo'll benefit from a market-leading benefits package tailored to spport yor wellbeing, financial secrity, and family life.

Or benefits inclde:

8 days' annal leave pls bank holidays, with the option to prchase p to 5 additional days.

Private Medical Insrance - company-fnded cover for yo and yor immediate family

Generos Pension Scheme - a non-contribtory employer contribtion of 1%, increasing with length of service p to 15%, pls the opportnity to increase this throgh salary sacrifice

Enhanced Parental Leave - p to 6 weeks' fll pay to spport growing families.

Protection Benefits - company-fnded critical illness cover, income protection, and life assrance

EV salary sacrifice scheme throgh Tsker

Reasonable Adjstments We're an eqalopportnities employer and want to ensre or recritment process is accessibleand inclsive for all, if yo reqire reasonable adjstment(s) at any stageplease let s know by emailing s at careers@sjp.co.k
Research tells sthat applicants (especially those from nderrepresented grops) can be pt offfrom applying for a role if they do not meet all the criteria or have been onan extended career-break. If yo think yo wold be a good match for this role andcan demonstrate some transferable experience please apply, regardless ofwhether yo tick every box.

What's next?

If yo're excitedabot this role and believe yo have the skills and experience we're lookingfor, we'd love to hear from yo! Please sbmit an application by clicking'apply' below and or team will be in toch.
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