Head of Change

It is an exciting time to join us at Redmayne Bentley. After recently celebrating our 150th year in business we are embarking on the next stage of our firm-wide strategy to build improve and develop upon our strong historic foundations.

Our Projects & Change team are deeply embedded within these plans and we are looking for an experienced strategic leader of change and transformation to help us achieve those ambitious goals.

You would be an influential leader within our Change Committee owning and strategically managing our enterprise change portfolio alongside all other change activities across the firm.

If successful you would be inheriting a team of talented individuals and established governance and frameworks - we want you to come in and bring out the best in both ensuring excellent management and delivery of our change initiatives. You would also be coming into a positive environment where senior leaders are committed advocates for change and continuous improvement.

Our Projects and Change team has grown markedly and achieved a lot in the last three years. We are hoping you will join us as our new Head of Change and bring your experience and strategic leadership to take the team and the firm to the next milestones in our long successful history.

Further specific details about the role and responsibilities can be found in the job description attached to this advert.

What We Are Looking For

Qualifications Experience & Knowledge

Essential

• Significant experience leading enterprise change portfolio or transformation functions.
• Proven experience managing complex portfolios and competing priorities.
• Demonstrated success in building and maturing a multi-disciplinary change function or Project/Transformation office.
• Experience engaging at Board or Senior Leadership level.
• Strong understanding of governance risk management and regulatory expectations.
• Experience delivering both business and technology change.

Desirable

• Financial services or regulated industry experience.
• Experience operating within an FCA or equivalent regulatory environment.

Skills & Behaviours

• Client & Outcome Focused ensures that initiatives remain focused on delivering excellent client outcomes.
• Commercially Aware can clearly identify and articulate tangible business benefits of change.
• Effective Communicator demonstrates excellent communication facilitation and negotiation skills with all stakeholders.
• Process & Detail Oriented - Proven ability to design and implement robust governance and processes for change.
• Professional Integrity & Credibility willing and able to influence and challenge effectively colleagues across all levels of the firm.
• Proactive Problem Solver Proactively looks for opportunities for continuous improvement
• Resilient & Adaptable demonstrates sound judgement effective prioritisation and high-quality outputs when faced with critical deadlines.
• Strategic Mindset able to step back and effectively assess prioritisation resource allocation and benefits realisation.
• Strong People Manager - able to lead motivate and develop high-performing teams.

We also expect all candidates to demonstrate our core values of Excellence Integrity Respect Responsibility and Teamwork.

At Redmayne Bentley our goal is to provide excellent personal investment services that enhance clients wealth.

It is an exciting time to be part of our firm having recently launched our new five-year business plan to improve grow and accelerate. We will achieve this through seeking operational and productivity improvements growing the investment management and financial planning services leveraging and protecting existing income lines and considering new acquisition opportunities.

As one of the UKs largest independent investment management and stockbroking firms we are committed to building a modern and diverse workplace where our people are offered unique opportunities to learn grow and develop across the financial sector.

Our friendly inclusive and collaborative environment rewards hard work with generous perks and benefits and we are genuinely committed to your wellbeing through our industry commended &You wellbeing framework.

Our future looks more exciting than ever come and share it with us.