466 Transformation Lead jobs in the United Kingdom

Job Description: Transformation Lead (Divestment Project)

Contract: Part-time, 2 days per week

Rate: £400 per day (outside IR35)

Location: Hybrid (London-based with some remote flexibility)

Duration: 6 months (with potential extension)

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Transformation Lead to support a high-profile divestment programme within a global organisation. This role will play a critical part in ensuring the smooth separation of systems, processes, and teams, enabling the business to deliver a successful carve-out with minimal disruption.

Working closely with senior stakeholders and programme teams, the Transformation Lead will act as a bridge between business and technical streams, ensuring delivery milestones are met, risks are managed, and governance is maintained.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead transformation activities related to a business divestment programme.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to ensure alignment across functions (Finance, Technology, HR, Operations).
• Support programme governance, ensuring timely decision-making and tracking of progress.
• Identify risks, blockers, and dependencies across the separation activities, recommending mitigation strategies.
• Facilitate communication between workstreams and ensure documentation of key decisions.
• Ensure delivery remains on track and aligned to agreed timelines and objectives.
• Provide clear reporting and updates to programme leadership.

Skills & Experience Required

• Proven track record of leading transformation, separation, or divestment programmes.
• Strong programme/change management experience, ideally within large/global organisations.
• Ability to work across multiple workstreams and manage complex stakeholder groups.
• Strong governance, risk management, and project tracking capabilities.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills with C-suite and senior stakeholders.
• Previous experience in divestment, carve-out, or M&A programmes highly desirable.

What We’re Looking For

This is a part-time role (2 days per week) ideal for a transformation professional who enjoys working in complex, fast-moving environments. The successful candidate will bring expertise in business transformation and separation projects, ensuring delivery confidence and business continuity throughout the divestment.

Job Description: Transformation Lead (Divestment Project)

Contract: Part-time, 2 days per week

Rate: £400 per day (outside IR35)

Location: Hybrid (London-based with some remote flexibility)

Duration: 6 months (with potential extension)

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Transformation Lead to support a high-profile divestment programme within a global organisation. This role will play a critical part in ensuring the smooth separation of systems, processes, and teams, enabling the business to deliver a successful carve-out with minimal disruption.

Working closely with senior stakeholders and programme teams, the Transformation Lead will act as a bridge between business and technical streams, ensuring delivery milestones are met, risks are managed, and governance is maintained.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead transformation activities related to a business divestment programme.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to ensure alignment across functions (Finance, Technology, HR, Operations).
• Support programme governance, ensuring timely decision-making and tracking of progress.
• Identify risks, blockers, and dependencies across the separation activities, recommending mitigation strategies.
• Facilitate communication between workstreams and ensure documentation of key decisions.
• Ensure delivery remains on track and aligned to agreed timelines and objectives.
• Provide clear reporting and updates to programme leadership.

Skills & Experience Required

• Proven track record of leading transformation, separation, or divestment programmes.
• Strong programme/change management experience, ideally within large/global organisations.
• Ability to work across multiple workstreams and manage complex stakeholder groups.
• Strong governance, risk management, and project tracking capabilities.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills with C-suite and senior stakeholders.
• Previous experience in divestment, carve-out, or M&A programmes highly desirable.

What We’re Looking For

This is a part-time role (2 days per week) ideal for a transformation professional who enjoys working in complex, fast-moving environments. The successful candidate will bring expertise in business transformation and separation projects, ensuring delivery confidence and business continuity throughout the divestment.

Delivery Transformation Manager
London (UK travel required)
12 Month FTC - Competitive Salary

VIQU have partnered with a UK organisation undergoing a major business and technology transformation, they are seeking a Delivery Transformation Manager to lead a high-profile programme involving complex organisational change, systems transformation, and operational process redesign across the UK.

Key Responsibilities of the Delivery Transformation Manager:

• Lead end-to-end delivery of a complex transformation programme across operations, technology, and people.
• Work closely with a scheduling SME, supplier project managers, and internal Business Analysts to drive progress.
• Own the delivery of business-critical change in operational, customer-facing, and scheduling-heavy environments.
• Manage third-party suppliers and system integrators, ensuring strong delivery coordination and performance.
• Collaborate with both UK and Australian teams under a joint international governance model.
• Shape and execute discovery, gap analysis, planning, design, delivery, and MVP implementation phases.
• Track benefits realisation across multiple delivery stages, maintaining pace and alignment throughout.
• Present programme status and value delivery with confidence and clarity at board and executive level.

Key Requirements of the Delivery Transformation Manager:

• Proven track record of delivering large-scale transformation programmes in logistics, transport, scheduling or similar sectors.
• Demonstrable experience leading business and technology change, with measurable delivery impact.
• Extensive experience in organisational change management, business change, user adoption, and process redesign.
• Ability to work autonomously in complex and ambiguous delivery environments – highly accountable and proactive.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with confidence engaging at C-suite and board level.
• Skilled in managing third-party suppliers, internal SMEs, and cross-functional delivery teams.
• Comfortable being parachuted into high-profile, high-pressure programmes with tight timelines.
• Willing to travel across the UK as required (majority London-based, with travel fully expensable).

To discuss this exciting opportunity in more detail, please APPLY NOW  for a no obligation chat with your VIQU Consultant. Additionally, you can contact Katie Dark on (url removed)

If you know someone who would be ideal for this role, by way of showing our appreciation, VIQU is offering an introduction fee up to £1,000  once your referral has successfully started work with our client (terms apply).

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Delivery Transformation Manager
London (UK travel required)
12 Month FTC - Competitive Salary

Salesforce Transformation Lead (Contract)

London (Hybrid) | 6–12 months

A leading B2B media and subscriptions group is seeking an experienced Salesforce Transformation Professional to lead a major CRM integration programme.

You’ll provide overarching programme leadership across strong internal teams (technical build, RevOps, user enablement), ensuring methodology, governance, and stakeholder alignment are in place to de-risk delivery.

What you’ll do:

• Drive cohesion across technical, commercial, and user-enablement workstreams.
• Establish governance, RAID, and reporting discipline.
• Guide best practice for Salesforce deployments, avoiding common pitfalls.
• Manage dependencies across multiple revenue streams (subscriptions, events, advertising).
• Act as the dedicated PMO/programme lead for the integration.

What we’re looking for:

• Proven experience leading Salesforce/CRM transformations in B2B subscription-based businesses .
• Strong programme management and governance expertise, with a track record of successful delivery.
• Familiarity with event and advertising revenue models is highly desirable.
• Pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset – able to balance structure with speed.

Salesforce Transformation Lead (Contract)

London (Hybrid) | 6–12 months

A leading B2B media and subscriptions group is seeking an experienced Salesforce Transformation Professional to lead a major CRM integration programme.

You’ll provide overarching programme leadership across strong internal teams (technical build, RevOps, user enablement), ensuring methodology, governance, and stakeholder alignment are in place to de-risk delivery.

What you’ll do:

• Drive cohesion across technical, commercial, and user-enablement workstreams.
• Establish governance, RAID, and reporting discipline.
• Guide best practice for Salesforce deployments, avoiding common pitfalls.
• Manage dependencies across multiple revenue streams (subscriptions, events, advertising).
• Act as the dedicated PMO/programme lead for the integration.

What we’re looking for:

• Proven experience leading Salesforce/CRM transformations in B2B subscription-based businesses .
• Strong programme management and governance expertise, with a track record of successful delivery.
• Familiarity with event and advertising revenue models is highly desirable.
• Pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset – able to balance structure with speed.

SoftServe’s Enterprise Solutions Lead (ESL) is a key consulting role that drives enterprise product development, digital strategy, and solution architecture for financial services industry (FSI) clients. As a trusted advisor, you will lead engagements from pre-sales to delivery, ensuring impactful business and technology solutions that align with industry regulations and best practices.

Our global Center of Excellence team has over 100+ of the most diverse, talented, and engaged Solution Consultants, Business Analysts, and Product Managers with 12+ locations worldwide.

We are a cross-functional, highly impactful, and high-visibility team whose mission is to drive digital transformation strategy and implementations. We advise our Fortune 500 customers at the cutting edge of technology while staying highly relevant to the specifics of their industry.

We are seeking a mature business professional in the Financial Services domain who has hands-on experience in driving Digital Transformation initiatives and has a vision on how technology will disrupt and enable global Financial Services. This role with us will offer a challenging and exciting career in digital advisory, in one of the leading and fastest-growing businesses on the market.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Define and lead digital transformation strategies for enterprises
• Identify ways to maximize business value
• Advise CXOs and board members on their transformation journeys
• Facilitate conversations and workshops with credibility and insight
• Lead advisory services and process/technology consulting across a broad set of Financial services domains
• Lead teams and develop proposals for RFP/RFI processes and pre-sales activities, including presenting solutions to senior stakeholders
• Lead cross-functional teams and engagement programs targeting enterprise CXOs, cloud providers, and other technology partners, to advise, deepen relationships, and accelerate strategic networks
• Identify transformation opportunities through close collaboration with core clients
• Deliver large-scale, complex Financial Services digital transformation projects, including the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of digital solutions
• Work collaboratively with clients to understand their business challenges and develop tailored solutions
• Lead project and development teams, and manage client relationships to ensure successful project delivery
• Drive deal shaping, solutioning, and commercial architecture for digital transformation programs
• Collaborate with account executives and industry leads to identify whitespace and upsell opportunities
• Support sales motions with thought leadership, client POVs, and solution demos
• Own end-to-end delivery accountability across discovery, design, MVPs, and scaled rollout. Ensure alignment with KPIs, client success metrics, and transformation ROI. Manage risk, change, and stakeholder alignment in cross-functional programs.
• Translate business needs into composable digital solutions and industry platforms
• Focus on measurable client outcomes—cost reduction, CX uplift, time-to-market, or compliance efficiency
• Support business case development and success tracking for transformation initiatives.

Preferred Competencies & Experience

• Proven experience in digital Financial Services consulting, with a consulting or industry background in Financial Services (preferably within Retail Banking, Insurance, or Fintech (Payments, Embedded Finance)).
• Broad experience and understanding of end-to-end Financial Services operations, with deep expertise in several of the areas mentioned: Customer Onboarding (KYC, AML), Digital Core, Risk & Compliance, Enterprise Finance, and Internal Controls.
• Experience in transformation of different business models – B2B, B2C, BaaS; building omnichannel experience; familiar with key regulations in the domain and how they impact business capabilities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities
• Familiarity with the design and implementation of any digital solutions (core systems, any supplementary systems).
• Strong understanding of cutting-edge technologies that are set to play a key role in the digitalization of Financial services, such as AI/ML, generative and agentic AI, cloud technology, and big data.
• Experience with the custom software development process and lifecycle, working in technical and development teams.
• Prior experience at a Tier-1 management consulting firm is an advantage.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, communication, or a related field. Master’s degree preferred.

Other Requirements

• Willingness to travel internationally
• A global mindset to operate effectively in a matrix environment
• Commitment to maintaining high levels of client satisfaction and business growth.

SoftServe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, age, sex, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, veteran status, and other protected characteristics under applicable law. Let’s put your talents and experience in motion with SoftServe.