Transformation Director (12 month Fixed Term Contract)

About IG Group

IG is a FTSE 100 fintech operating across five continents, serving over 1.3m customers and handling billions of dollars in transactions – built on scale, trust, and proof. We didn't pivot to innovation; it's how we've always operated. What that means for the people who work here is real: genuinely complex problems to solve, the technology and resources to tackle them properly, and the kind of scope that's rare in established businesses.

The bar is high – bring a curious and forward-thinking mindset and we'll give you the platform to define what comes next.

Join us at IG – the future gets built here.

Purpose of the role

The Transformation Director will partner with ExCo to lead a company-wide transformation programme spanning technology modernisation, AI adoption, acquisition integration, operating and organisational model change, and procurement and external spend optimisation.

To do this, the Transformation Director will build and lead a small, high-calibre team that constitutes the Programme Management Office (PMO). The PMO will be the independent nerve centre of the transformation, giving ExCo a clear and integrated view of progress, benefits, risks, and dependencies. It will proactively manage change impacts, stakeholder interests and employee engagement, ensuring issues are surfaced and decisions are made at pace.

The PMO does not own implementation or business outcomes. Delivery responsibility sits with initiative owners; accountability for budgets and benefits remains with the relevant budget owners.

Accountabilities

Reporting to ExCo, lead the transformation work that will accelerate IG’s growth by overseeing the execution of the initiatives arising out of the strategic review.

• Ensure that this critical, enterprise-wide transformation is clearly understood by colleagues and supported by senior leaders.
• Provide air traffic control by spotting overlaps, dependencies and sequencing conflicts before they become problems.
• Working in partnership with ExCo, ensure that the various transformation initiatives are given the resource and support required and that execution is coherent, consistent and coordinated.
• Create and communicate a compelling vision for the end state - building a rhythm of honest, timely communication that keeps stakeholders informed, reduces uncertainty for colleagues and translates complex programme activity into simple narratives that land the ‘why’ as well as the ‘what’.
• Design and lead change management across multiple complex workstreams and business areas; building senior leader capability, reducing resistance through targeted interventions, tracking adoption and behavioural change, and managing interdependencies to maintain pace and minimise change fatigue.
• Work with CPO and CFO to build a high-performing, achievement focused team capable of overseeing the transformation.
• Ensure that growth assumptions and business priorities are reflected in transformation sequencing and capacity planning.
• Challenge initiative owners constructively where plans, forecasts or reported status are not sufficiently robust.
• Establish a reporting framework that gives ExCo a clear, real-time view of transformation progress:
  • Maintain an integrated overview of all transformation initiatives, milestones, dependencies, risks and expected benefits.
  • Provide concise, reliable and decision-oriented reporting to the Steering Group and ExCo.
  • Support consistent governance, planning and reporting standards across initiatives without creating unnecessary bureaucracy
  • Work with Finance and budget owners to track transformation expenditure, forecast benefits and validate realised savings.
  • Provide transparency on employee engagement, including surveys, and identify and recommend interventions where needed.
  • Provide hands-on support to initiatives at risk, while keeping delivery accountability with initiative owners.