SENIOR TRANSFORMATION COACH

Location Warwickshire
Job type: Contract
Salary: £34.66ph UMBRELLA
Contact name: Vicki Martinson

Contact email: vmartinson@select-engineering.net
Contact phone: 01245403560
Job ref: 36121872
Published: 3 days ago
Duration: 9 Months
Expiry date: 14 Jan 2026 23:59
Startdate: ASAP

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

The Opportunity

  • We are currently on an Engineering Technology Transformation within our Organisation. We are looking for somebody to join us in support of delivering one of our major objectives in ensuring the delivery of our Enterprise Feature & Technology Cycle plan for future customer requirements.

This will include, but not be limited to:

  • Running the cadence of alignment of Demand Process/Enterprise Roadmap/Technology Delivery Framework

  • 90 day lookahead of all Projects fed into weekly milestone reviews incl onboarding of projects & people

  • Working with the teams to best refine the process and gateways as we continue to Transform

  • Delivery of a Feature and Technology Roadmap to enable the Tech Leads to present their tech ambition status

  • Alignment of content between Product Strategy and Tech Platforms through the Technical Ambition Leads

  • Supporting other Transformation activity that may come about

Key Performance Indicators

Please enter measurable indicators that will be used to demonstrate how this role will deliver against the accountabilities. Please ensure that there is a clear link to the corporate/functional/team KPIs and ensure that the key performance indicators are specific and measurable

  • Delivery of Projects on time, quality.

  • Ensure project leads onboarded ahead of GW/Milestone reviews.

  • Throughput of activity in the Demand process in a timely manner.

  • Supporting development of KPI within the transformation activities.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

  • This is a pre-populated field identifying key accountabilities, including key decisions for which the role is accountable

  • Please check the list below and add / delete or change the order as required. Please note the IVN placed on line has limited space, the hiring manager will need to identify circa 5-6  key accountabilities and responsibilities to the Recruitment Delivery Team which will be included in the advertisement or IVN

  • To implement effective engineering transformation in response to business requirements

  • Engage in the launch and governance of the demand process to ensure x-engineering alignment on project delivery

  • Manage the delivery of our Pre-Dev workstreams through TDF and relevant study governance

  • Create transparency of the Feature and Technology workstreams through the roadmap

  • Identify and manage anticipated resistance and maximise engagement of key stakeholders using change management techniques and tools

  • Gain commitment and involvement of senior and line management and those affected by the change using influence and interactions to advocate change consistently in the wider business

  • Mapping activity and identifying gaps between current and future state business processes

  • Undertake any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested

Key Interactions

Please enter a maximum of 5 role titles, departments or functional groups (not individual names) that this role will develop and maintain relationships with outside their own immediate team

  • Engineering Tech Platform

  • Tech Ambition Leads

  • Global Product Strategy

  • Business Excellence

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

  • This is a pre-populated field identifying the key qualifications, skills and experience that a person needs to have in order to deliver the role successfully, you may wish to tailor these specifically to the role, if so please note; you must not make reference to a specific number of years of experience, instead use the terminology such as ‘Some’, ‘Significant’, ‘Extensive’ Please check the list below and add / delete or change the order as required

Essential:

  • Experience of successfully delivering a major Programme or Project

  • Exceptional relationship management skills, influencing and stakeholder communication skills, both written and verbal

  • Operational experience of using Product Engineering, approaches, tools and techniques 

  • A solid understanding and experience of managing people effectively through change and the change process

  • Experience of process mapping / process improvement 

  • Acute business acumen and understanding of organisational issues and challenges

Desirable: 

  • Experience with large-scale organisational transformational change.

  • Knowledge and experience of successfully developing KPIs. 

  • Credible within the programme environment and ability to influence others.

  • Engineering degree.          

Personal Profile

This is a pre-populated field identifying the personal attributes required for this opportunity. Do not include reference to knowledge or skills that would otherwise appear in the section above

Essential:

  • An individual with a customer first mindset who is easy to do business with and makes people feel special, driven to deliver experiences that are personalised, transparent and dependable.

  • An individual who is results driven, demonstrates, tenacity, drive and perseverance, with the ability to deliver in a complex, highly demanding environment. 

  • An individual with the ability to combine a short term, pragmatic focus with longer term planning

  • An individual who is resilient, energetic and enthusiastic, able to deliver results under pressure, whilst responding constructively to challenging new ideas and inputs 

  • An individual who is able to challenge existing thinking in a positive way whilst building credibility and trust through experience and personal style

  • A good communicator who can communicate complex ideas

  • A effective team player, actively leads, develops and supports team members

Desirable: 

  • An individual who enables speed in decision making through establishing alignment, clarity, appropriate resources and sense of urgency whilst bringing others along