Transformation Service Group Lead (Health and Life Sciences Advisory) in Manchester

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As a member of the Health and Life Sciences Advisory (HLSA) senior leadership team, lead, design and deliver transformation programmes in the health and life sciences sectors. The role is about improving service quality, efficiency, innovation, and outcomes through strategic change — often incorporating digital innovation, commercial strategy, policy alignment, stakeholder collaboration, and regulatory compliance. This senior role will identify opportunities to advance the HLSA strategy and vision and provide leadership to teams delivering transformation services – digital, asset optimisation, service transformation and complex programme management.

A key component of the role is to expand and develop service range, quality, efficiency and innovation across the teams, to build comprehensive transformation advisory services to clients in health and life sciences. This role is responsible for delivering revenue and gross margin targets across the transformation group of services ensuring resource is managed effectively and flexibly across teams.

• Lead development and execution of comprehensive transformation strategies for health and life sciences organisations, services or systems.
• Drive the implementation of change programmes across clinical, digital, research, assets and operational domains.
• Oversee conversion of strategic goals into actionable plans, business cases, roadmaps and benefits realisation metrics.
• Manage complex stakeholder networks (internal: clinicians, operational teams; external: regulators, academic, industry, patients) to ensure buy‑in, co‑design, and alignment.
• Apply service design, improvement methodologies (e.g. Lean, Six‑Sigma), digital transformation techniques and technology enablement.
• Ensure governance, risk, resource and budget controls across transformation services group.
• Monitor performance, measure outcomes, adapt course as needed.
• Liaise with policy, regulatory, innovation bodies; ensure transformation is compliant and aligned with national / local health and life sciences policy.
• Provide leadership, mentoring and support to project teams and change agents.
• Agree and manage resource across teams adopting a best athlete approach.
• Provide a quality assurance role across capabilities identifying any gaps in expertise to be addressed.
• Act as the account lead for key target clients and commissions.
• Provide leadership and support to service delivery teams.
• With HSLA health, life sciences and International leads, support or lead on new business bids or project extensions.
• Deliver service expertise within the HLSA advisory team (~60‑70% of time).

• Direct report to Head of Discipline/ Managing director.
• Agree and report against Gross Margin targets.
• Agree, implement and report on strategic plan.

• Track record of leading large, complex transformation projects in healthcare, life sciences, or similarly regulated sectors.
• Experience ideally within a consultancy organisation leading transformation programme for a range of health or life sciences clients.
• Experience in strategic healthcare or life sciences planning, digital health, health technology.
• Ability to analyse and interpret both quantitative and qualitative data; understand policy, regulatory environment.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, influencing skills; ability to manage multiple stakeholder interests.
• Capability to manage budgets, resources, risk, and governance frameworks.
• Experience working with cross‑functional teams; ability to drive culture change.
• Clinical, scientific, research or digital solutions experience may be beneficial.
• Embracing diversity of nationalities, cultures and perspectives.
• Demonstrates managerial courage.
• Provides “actionable” positive and constructive feedback to others in a respectful manner and encourages devolved, empowered leadership.
• Fosters a culture that generates long‑term learning, cooperation and development of capability.
• Guides, encourages and supports employees, peers and others in their development by providing feedback and encouragement so they can reach their full potential and achieve a higher level of performance.
• An understanding and appreciation for digital technologies and how they will continue to impact how WSP delivers its services and design for the built environment.
• An ability to translate digitalisation into new services and delivery methods advise on solutions for clients.

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Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria, please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.