Business and Transformation Manager

Working Pattern: Full Time, On-Site

Working location: Derby

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount. We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere. We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts. Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It's a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we're all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing:

• Own processes including annual strategic planning, annual financial budgeting and planning, quarterly priority setting and alignment of objectives, recruitment and load capacity, benefits management.
• Own and lead capacity planning for core production, ensuring accurate recording and clear communication of future demand across the submarine business.
• Lead operational performance for the DBU and personal accountability for associated Cost Centre/s.
• Lead the team responsible for the transformation strategy and associated programmes of work.
• Own performance measures (KPI/metric dashboards) - developing and ensuring the right systems are in place to measure progress and address variance.
• Ensure the best decision making is happening with the best data and best processes, ownership, and empowered delegates where possible.
• Using broad content knowledge to decide on priorities and connect different workstreams, projects, people and departments to create efficiencies.
• Being empowered to solve problems.
• Coordinate sprints into different issues and resolve 'roadblocks' within the DBU.
• Increasing effectiveness of the organisation (across processes, people and portfolio).

Who we’re looking for:

• Has provided business process and system leadership.
• Has led projects / activities / improvements across a range of Business Management Processes.
• Previous financial experience, ideally with exposure to managing or supporting budgets.
• Has led business-wide improvement projects and initiatives.
• Reviewing and analysing historical reports to identify risks, themes, and trends.
• Managing deliverables, timelines, and stakeholders across multiple projects.
• Has led and supported implementations (software systems or wider organisational initiatives).
• Whilst proactively identifying risks and improvement opportunities across the business.
• Has experienced and successfully delivered improvement programmes that impact quality, cost, schedule and deliver.
• Tools including: SAP PM, RM, CAM roles, Excel Advanced, PowerPoint Advanced with some experience in P6, Power BI.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines business an individual has to hold a Security Check clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you do not currently already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets we can only progress applications from individuals who are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.

As part of our selection process, candidates in certain locations may be asked to complete an online assessment, which can include cognitive and behavioural aptitude testing relevant to the role. If required, full instructions for the next steps will be provided.