Join us as a Head of Transformation Investments and Portfolio Management
- This is a high-profile role which will see you co-ordinating the annual investment portfolio planning and backlog prioritisation cycle, balancing strategic outcome, cost and benefit, delivering in support of the overall Transformation plan
- We’ll look to you to ensure the bank-wide investment portfolio and execution are aligned to the bank’s purpose, strategy and risk appetite, with responsibility to manage the oversight of the Property, Suppliers & Investments (PSI) transformation portfolio and the allocation of portfolio and change resources onto the department priorities
- You’ll work with bank-wide senior stakeholders and leading, developing and line managing a professional, capable and engaged team to meet the needs of the business and customers
What you'll do
You’ll play a key role in Group Investments, being responsible for managing the Investment portfolio of over £1billion. In addition, you’ll be leading change delivery within the department. Working in partnership with bank-wide senior stakeholders in Group Strategy, Finance and Business Leaders, you’ll ensure alignment between strategic outcomes and the investment portfolio, making recommendations on what should be accelerated or decelerated.
You’ll also oversee the forward-looking Transformation plan and transition states and provide validation that investment initiatives support the overall plan. We’ll look to you to manage the deployment of portfolio and change resources across PSI.
In addition, you’ll:
- Establish and manage a transformation plan prioritisation forum, reviewing performance of outcomes and recommending adjustments to the investment plan as appropriate
- Manage the oversight of the Strategic Investment portfolio, ensuring tight review of the investment process and managing the stage-gate funding decisions
- Support the establishment of bank-wide business and technical architecture in partnership with key stakeholders
- Lead a strategic portfolio of programmes, taking accountability for all programme plans, controls and resource plans, including its progress overall
- Manage the strategic alignment process to the bank-wide strategy, ensuring resource is focussed on the right place for department and bank-wide success
The skills you'll need
We’re looking for someone with an established background in the financial services with an understanding of its key industry drivers and trends. You’ll have significant experience of strategic management and leadership, in a highly complex financial services environment.
We’ll expect you to have experience of developing best practices and methods, strategic advocacy and developing innovation and partnerships. We’ll also expect you to have strong networking, stakeholder management and influencing skills at a senior level.
You’ll also need:
- To be a detail-oriented individual with strong financial literacy
- Experience of successfully leading and motivating teams, with the ability to drive a strong performance culture
- Experience of delivering strategic programmes that support the business strategy and its growth agenda
- Strong influencing and relationship management skills with the ability and confidence to challenge opinions, and construct a compelling argument to support an opinion
- Knowledge of financial services industry trends, development initiatives, architectural evolution and innovation
- Knowledge of change frameworks and methodologies
- A background in managing and controlling costs to a budget
Hours
35
Job Posting Closing Date:
02/04/2025
Ways of Working:Hybrid
NatWest Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Flexible Benefits — A flexible ValueAccount structure with pension and benefit funding allows tailoring of health, protection, lifestyle, and savings options, with unused amounts typically paid as cash. This flexibility supports personalisation of coverage, particularly in Great Britain where the framework is most detailed.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded pension contributions are provided on top of salary in Great Britain, alongside automatic retirement enrollment and share/save programs. This creates structured long‑term wealth support as part of total reward.
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Parental & Family Support — UK policies outline extended maternity, adoption and equal partner leave on full pay with a phased return, plus paid neonatal care leave. These provisions are positioned as market‑leading and complement broader flexibility resources.
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We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate. As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these. Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence. One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025. We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
