British Gas
Transformation Director
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Transformation Director
Transformation Director – Centrica Home | Flexible UK Locations with FlexFirst Hybrid Working
We’re so much more than just an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising how we power the planet. At Centreica Home, we’re combining the strength of British Gas, the innovation of Hive, and the power of digital, data, and agentic AI to shape the future of energy and home services. Join 21,000+ colleagues who are driving a greener, fairer future by transforming how energy works—making it, storing it, moving it, selling it, and mending it.
About your team
At British Gas, our mission is to help customers embrace a more sustainable energy future. For over 200 years, we’ve powered the UK’s homes and businesses—but now, we’re going further. By adopting clever technologies like thermostats, heat pumps, solar panels, and EV chargers, we’re making it cheaper and easier for customers to reduce their carbon footprint while reaching Net Zero.
Our transformation programmes are the catalyst for change, driving innovation, customer-centric solutions, and operational excellence in alignment with our ultimate energy vision.
Overview
In the world we’re creating, more and more customers are choosing cleaner, smarter homes—<html to lower carbon, connected, and comfortable living. You’ll be part of the team shaping these transitions, leading transformative change from design to delivery for a more sustainable energy future at Centreica Home.
As a Transformation Director, you’ll bring clarity and direction to strategic ambitions, align stakeholders, deliver measurable results, and scale change across the business. With a mix of digital innovation, customer obsession, and commercial insight, you’ll drive meaningful outcomes that meet business needs, regulatory requirements, and societal impact.
Key Responsibilities
Your role is to shape and execute complex transformation programmes that enhance the energy of connected homes and the businesses that serve them. Core accountabilities include:
🔹 Strategic Business Partnership
- Work closely with senior business leaders to align long-term strategy with tangible transformation plans.
- Provide strategic challenge, leadership, and problem-solving expertise across multiple business functions.
- Set priorities, justify investments, and map transformation roadmaps that balance ambition with reality.
- Inject external market insights to drive value creation, assess risks, and securely deliver results.
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🔹 Transformation & Programme Leadership
- Lead enterprise-wide transformation initiatives through a structured lifecycle—designing, executing, and embedding change.
- Scope, budget, and deliver against clear outcomes, costs, risks, and benefits.
- Ensure customer and colleague-centric transformations create sustainable operational improvements.
- Bring clarity where ambiguity exists, owning accountability for timelines and outcomes.
🔹 Enterprise-Wide Digital & Data Leadership
- Champion digital technology to improve decision-making and operational agility.
- Collaborate with business leaders to shape new technologies (AI, data-driven insights, automation).
- Use data to identify opportunities, measure impact, and guide strategic direction.
- Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and evidence-based decisions.
🔹 Delivery Excellence & Governance
- Establish clear governance structures to assure successful delivery against expectations.
- Optimise resource allocation by working closely with the Transformation Management Office (TMO).
- Balance strategic ambition with operational feasibility—ensuring all work aligns with business needs.
- Maintain full visibility into risks, dependencies, and benefits—mitigating problems before they become blockers.
🔹 Stakeholder Management & Collaboration
- Unify executives, teams, and functions around shared goals, ensuring collaborative, aligned decisions.
- Build and nurture trusted relationships with C-suite and Board-level stakeholders to maintain momentum.
- Navigate and resolve conflicting priorities to keep transformational work on track.
- Translate complexity into actionable clarity to drive collective focus and progress.
🔹 Strategic Workforce & Skills Planning
- Anticipate today’s and tomorrow’s skill needs to support transformation goals.
- Identify skill gaps and people development opportunities.
- Support capability-building efforts—developing accountable teams that can deliver long-term impact.
🔹 Regulatory, Risk & ESG Stewardship
- Ensure transformations are executed responsibly, resiliently, and sustainably.
- комплексное управление рисками: регуляторными, стратегическими и операционными.
- Embed ESG considerations into programme scope, design, and delivery to meet both business and societal objectives.
🔹 Leadership, Culture Change & Capability Building
- Foster a high-performance culture with a shared purpose.
- Encourage collaboration, ownership, and accountability at all levels.
- Co consistent behaviour change and new ways of working that drive lasting results.
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Requirements
📌 Work Experience & Expertise
- Proven leadership in directing large-scale, multi-million-pound (£50m–£200m+) transformation programmes.
- Deep understanding of the energy transition, including:
- Low-carbon technologies
- Smart home innovations
- Electrification & microgrids
- Digital-first energy services
- Strong partnership track record with executive and board-level stakeholders on critical strategic discussions.
- Hands-on experience in:
- Transformation governance and change management
- Commercial outcomes and performance improvement
- Digital and tech-enabled transformation (automation, AI, analytics)
- Regulatory environment experience—ensuring compliant yet agile delivery.
- Shaping cultural change and embedding new ways of working with measurable impact.
🎓 Education & Credentials
- Degree-level qualification or equivalent professional certification.
- Knowledge of programme/project methodology (preferably Agile, MSP, PRINCE2, Lean).
- Additional value added by relevant certifications in programme delivery, digital transformation, risk, or change management.
Why Apply?
We don’t promise perfection—but we promise purpose. We build careers and lives around people, balancing financial and personal needs. Our commitment to support goes beyond work, helping you thrive in all aspects of life.
Here’s what #MoreThanACareer looks like for you: ✅ Freedom & Flexibility – Choose a career that aligns with ambitious vision. ✅ People-Powered Values – Trust, inclusion, and ownership of ideas. ✅ Lifelong Learning – Unliamed growth, career direction guided by you. ✅ Health & Well-being – Comprehensive support for mind and body.
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