Head of Business Excellence, Change Delivery & Enablement

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Naval Ships business is currently going through a period of substantial growth and change due to an upsurge in demand from domestic and overseas customers. As a result we have an opportunity for a Head of Business Excellence, Change Delivery & Enablement.

As Head of Business Excellence, Change Delivery & Enablement you will be responsible for leading Naval Ships business improvement, change management, and organisational enablement activities, ensuring the business continuously improves performance, successfully adopts change, and operates in alignment with the target operating model.

The role works in partnership with value stream and functional leaders to improve organisational effectiveness, strengthen ways of working, and embed sustainable improvements within delivery environments while maintaining clear accountability for performance within individual functions.

Operating across the business, you will act as the central coordination point for improvement and change activity, ensuring initiatives are aligned to business priorities, appropriately sequenced, and capable of being successfully adopted.

Your leadership and experience will play a critical role as you will be the primary interface for corporate transformation initiatives, ensuring Naval Ships is prepared for change, able to absorb new requirements, and capable of realising intended benefits without compromising delivery performance.

This is a fantastic opportunity to shape the success of a national capability and be at the core of critical change.

Your main responsibilities as Head of Business Excellence, Change Delivery & Enablement:

·Business Improvement - Responsible for establishing and maintaining a coordinated approach to business improvement across the organisation, ensuring initiatives are aligned to business priorities and deliver measurable outcomes.

·Change Management and Adoption - Responsible for ensuring organisational change is effectively planned, managed, adopted, and sustained, enabling successful implementation of new processes, systems, structures, and ways of working.

·Operating Model Implementation - Responsible for supporting implementation and maturation of the operating model, ensuring agreed governance, behaviours, accountabilities, and ways of working are embedded consistently across the business.

·Improvement Portfolio Coordination - Responsible for maintaining visibility of improvement activity across the organisation, ensuring initiatives are aligned, prioritised, coordinated, and capable of being successfully absorbed.

·Corporate Transformation Integration - Responsible for acting as the primary business interface for corporate transformation activity, coordinating readiness, implementation, and adoption activities within Naval Ships.

·Cross-Functional Improvement - Responsible for facilitating improvement activity that spans functions, value streams, and organisational boundaries, helping resolve systemic inefficiencies and interface issues.

·Benefits Realisation - Responsible for ensuring improvement and change initiatives deliver intended outcomes and sustainable business benefits.

·Organisational Effectiveness - Responsible for developing approaches, frameworks, and interventions that improve organisational effectiveness, collaboration, delivery discipline, and operational performance.

·Change Capability Development - Responsible for developing organisational capability in business improvement, change management, and continuous improvement, enabling leaders and teams to improve performance within their own domains.

Your skills and qualifications

• ·Strong understanding and significant experience of business improvement, continuous improvement, and change management
• ·Knowledge of organisational design, operating models, and business transformation approaches
• ·Understanding of value streams, delivery systems, and organisational performance management
• ·Understanding of governance frameworks, benefits realisation, and improvement portfolio management
• ·Awareness of engineering, operations, supply chain, programme management, and support function interfaces and experience working with senior leadership teams to improve organisational performance and capability
• ·Knowledge of process improvement methodologies including Lean, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement practices
• ·Understanding of performance management and organisational effectiveness techniques
• ·Strong leadership capability in business improvement, organisational change, and enablement combined with strong stakeholder management and influencing skills without direct authority
• ·Degree-level qualification (or equivalent experience) in Business, Engineering, Organisational Development, Change Management, or related discipline
• ·Relevant qualifications in Lean, Six Sigma, Change Management, MSP, Prosci, Organisational Development, or equivalent highly desirable
• Location: Scotstoun, on site presence required, some hybrid working available
• Grade: GG14
• Advert closes 5th November, interviews likely mid November

Our Naval Ships business

We design and manufacture a range of naval ships and state of the art combat systems and equipment, giving customers the capability to fulfil extensive naval operations. From offshore patrol vessels through to the latest City Class Type 26 frigates that we are building for the UK Royal Navy, and the Australian Hunter Class and Canadian Surface Combatant, we are a business that operates on a truly global platform and can offer a wide range of opportunities where you can play your part in these challenging and exciting projects.

Attracting and retaining the sharpest minds is essential for a globally competitive UK naval engineering business. Our aim is to recruit the very best talent and we welcome applications from a diverse range of people, from all backgrounds, with many different skills, experience and perspectives. We offer the flexibility you need to do what’s important to you, whether that’s job sharing, home working, or simply the ability to flex your start and stop times. Where practical, we’ll support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your full potential.

We are committed to supporting work life balance for all our employees and embrace a range of modern working practices, which aim to enhance flexibility for individuals whilst also enabling business performance. Flexibility provisions vary by role, but include; hybrid working arrangements, flexible working patterns and shift working.

We want to be the leading employer in defence and security for valuing diversity and inclusion. We care about difference in all forms and want to create an inclusive environment where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds. For more information on our Inclusion work, please click here.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and who have been in their current role for 12 months or longer

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