You'll be the lead adviser to senior leaders and programme sponsors, translating strategic priorities into deliverable programmes, developing robust business cases to secure investment, and ensuring programmes are governed, resourced and delivered to time, cost and quality. Benefits realisation is central to the role — you'll need to define, track and embed benefits well beyond go-live, not just at business case stage.

We need someone with repeatable experience of this kind of work, comfortable operating across governance structures, senior stakeholders, elected members or boards, and multidisciplinary delivery teams. You'll need "the usual" in terms of risk management, escalation and assurance, along with the leadership skills to manage and develop project managers, change officers and business analysts, and the credibility to influence, challenge and support senior leaders.

This is an interim role offering hybrid working from a West Midlands office, 2-3 days per week onsite required as this is a key influencing role.

Please apply if you have led comparable transformation programmes previously and have public sector experience.