People & Organisation Transformation Lead

Department: [SBSS] HR

Employment Type: Fixed Term - Full Time

Location: Newcastle

Compensation: From £65,000

We are looking to hire a People & Organisation Transformation Lead on a 24 month fixed term contract to provide specialist expertise in people & organisational transformation that supports the People & Performance Leadership Team in delivering SBG 2.0. Translate strategic ambition into changes in organisation design, workforce capability, leadership, culture and ways of working; orchestrate delivery across priority programmes; and ensure lasting change is adopted, benefits are realised and ownership is transferred sustainably into the business.

Working across the People & Performance function to support and drive key change initiatives that move SBG towards strategic, internal and AI-enabled capability, empowering colleagues to make faster decisions and take enterprise-wide ownership. Enable One Team collaboration, empowered decision-making and intelligent experimentation to accelerate progress towards SBG 2.0.

What you'll be responsible for:

Translate SBG 2.0 into Organisational Change

• Convert SBG 2.0 priorities into clear organisation, workforce, leadership and culture outcomes.
• Diagnose the structural, behavioural and capability barriers to scalable, technology-enabled growth.
• Partner with business leaders to define the required future state, transition roadmap, measures and ownership.

Lead the People & Organisation transformation portfolio

• Lead priority SBG 2.0 programmes within P&P and beyond through discovery, design, build, embed and scale.
• Integrate existing plans across organisation design, workforce transition, leadership, culture and capability activity into one transformation plan.
• Manage dependencies, risks, sequencing and trade-offs across business and technology workstreams.

Drive adoption and benefits realisation

• Establish readiness, adoption and benefit measures before implementation.
• Hold sponsors and business owners accountable for visible leadership, local adoption and removal of legacy practices.
• Track impact against key measures throughout transformation, using evidence to adapt, stop or scale interventions, ensuring changes become embedded in business routines.

Build sustainable transformation capability

• Equip leaders and People Partners to lead change, make faster enterprise decisions and use evidence confidently.
• Transfer tools and capability into the business so transformation does not remain dependent on the role.
• Create reusable approaches for change impact, stakeholder alignment, experimentation and benefits tracking.

What you'll need:

• Proven ability to lead complex change and transformation through to adoption and benefits realisation at an enterprise level.
• Commercial acumen and understanding of how change impacts business performance / economics
• Credibility to influence, challenge and align senior leaders and stakeholders.
• Expertise in organisation design, workforce planning and performance improvement.
• Ability to use workforce data and commercial insight to shape decisions and measure impact.

Our Benefits

• Hybrid working – 2 days in the office and 3 days working from home
• 25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days over 2 years’ service and 30 days after 5 years’ service. Plus bank holidays!
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Pension scheme – 5% employee, 6% employer
• Flexible working – we will always consider applications for those who require less than the advertised hours
• Flexi-time
• Healthcare Cash Plan – claim cashback on a variety of everyday healthcare costs
• Electric vehicle – salary sacrifice scheme
• 100’s of exclusive retailer discounts
• Professional wellbeing, health & fitness app - Wrkit
• Enhanced parental leave, including time off for IVF appointments
• Religious bank holidays – if you don’t celebrate Christmas and Easter, you can use these annual leave days on other occasions throughout the year.
• Life Assurance - 4 times your salary
• 25% Car Insurance Discount
• 20% Travel Insurance Discount
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Employee Referral Scheme
• Community support day