VP Transformation

Rolls-Royce

VP Transformation at Rolls-Royce driving complex transformation programmes to achieve strategic pillars and mid-term targets. Collaborating across teams while managing senior stakeholders for successful outcomes.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

In the role of VP Transformation, you will act as ambassador for our Winning Together transformation programme and role model performance excellence as a leader.
Is able to articulate a problem statement, identify a successful outcome and drive to delivery of the outcome, demonstrating resilience and adaptiveness, bringing our teams with you.
Use change management methodology and change leadership to successfully lead the programme and business change activity, engaging our teams to drive for success and a sustainable outcome.
Demonstrates a One Rolls-Royce mindset and is a holistic thinker, who understands the Value Chain and value optimisation, and is able to ‘join the dots’.
Act as coach to teams to understand that as an Enterprise we need to be comfortable with constant change and help our teams to achieve their transformation goals; resolve conflicts; support the workstream owners to execute and deliver positive business impact.
Drives for simplicity and standardisation, to deliver operational effectiveness and efficiency, through key programmes of work.
Performance manage workstreams to achieve outcomes and regularly communicates and collaborates with senior stakeholders, to deliver transformational performance.
Accountability for delivering specific transformation projects from idea creation to deployment, ensuring robustly embedded in our operating model and ways of working, as part of the delivery of our mid-term targets.
Act as collaborator to drive delivery of the One Rolls-Royce operating model, ensuring clear accountability, decision rights and interfaces are embedded.

Requirements

What you’ll need

The individual must have presence and credibility, is able to operate at senior levels in the organisation and must be able to build and maintain a large number of relationships, given the variety and seniority of the stakeholder groups.
Experience in change leadership and management and operational execution, to ensure a sustainable outcome.
Has operated as a coach and guide to support our teams to deliver successful outcomes and develop their capabilities.
Has led complex projects in more than one context, function or business.
Experience in the governance and management of transformation/improvement programmes and has lead programme execution against the target roadmap and can identify when corrective action is needed to address off-track items.
Demonstrates an understanding of our businesses operating model and how value is generated to deliver our vision of a high performing, competitive, resilient and growing Rolls-Royce.
Coupled with commercial acumen and technical knowledge to ask the right questions and work through the solutions to the many challenges that occur in programmes of this size and complexity.
Demonstrates good understanding of problems, resolution and is outcome driven.
Exercise good judgement on when to make decisions and when to consult/escalate.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Generous Annual Leave
Retirement Savings through the Rolls-Royce Retirement Savings Trust
Group Life Assurance provides for a lump sum benefit if you die whilst employed by Rolls-Royce
Group Income Protection provides an income in the event that you are unable to work due to illness or injury
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Hard Skills & Tools

change managementtransformation leadershipoperational executionproject managementgovernance of transformation programmesperformance managementvalue optimisationstakeholder managementcoachingconflict resolution

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationcollaborationrelationship buildingadaptabilityresiliencejudgmentproblem-solvingholistic thinkingcommercial acumen