Transformation Director in London/Hybrid - National Employment Savings Trust (NEST)

London/Hybrid

Competitive

Permanent

Not Specified

37.5 Working Hours - (Flexible)

22 Jul 2025

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Role Overview

This role is a new leadership role within the Strategy and Transformation function, and provides an opportunity to shape and mature Nest’s enterprise-wide approach to transformation.

Working with Directors and leaders across the organisation, they will spearhead the translation of our vision and strategy into bold, ambitious, well-shaped and well-communicated delivery plans. They will primarily do this by establishing a transformation capability within Nest which partners with delivery teams in order to ensure that:

We understand how our delivery plans may need to evolve; what the pipeline of future strategic delivery could/will be
We are adapting and re-prioritising, in order to best meet the needs of our strategy

Working with the Director of Strategy, Performance and Planning, they will also make sure that we are consistently delivering in order to optimise our performance and adjust quickly in response to challenges and opportunities.

We'd love to hear from you if you can demonstrate the following minimum criteria:

› Experience of the realities of portfolio planning within an ever-shifting business environment with conflicting priorities
› Leadership experience in a commercial, enterprise-wide context
› Experience of leading complex delivery in cross-functional internal and external environments
› Experience of building teams (either directly or indirectly, through matrix management)
› Strategy skills; including designing strategic frameworks, benefits realisation approaches, and actively managing strategies as they develop and mature
› Financial services experience would be an advantage, but not essential

We are open to discussing working patterns.

We welcome all internal applicants to apply for our roles, regardless of your current working pattern or hours. We will aim to accommodate your request and match your current working arrangements.

Don't worry if you think you don't have all the key skills, it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as we're good at spotting potential and offer a generous training budget.

Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role.

Reward and recognition

A discretionary bonus scheme
Reward and recognition scheme
Enhanced auto enrolled pension – your contributions start at the default 5% while ours are higher at 8%. If you up your contributions to 6% we raise ours to 9%. If you contribute 7% or more we’ll contribute 10%.
Income protection scheme – is an insurance benefit that provides you with income if you cannot work due to illness or incapacity.

Click here to see the benefits we offer at Nest.

Flexible and agile working

Everyone's personal situation is different.

To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):

hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
reduce or vary working hours
reduce or vary the days worked
work compressed hours
job share

For more information about our recruitment process click here

Directorate/Department Overview

Nest has a bold new purpose and an ambitious corporate strategy. Delivering against this strategy will require transformational thinking and action right across the organisation. The Transformation Director will build an enterprise capability which partners with delivery teams across Nest, makes sure we are bringing our strategy – and future strategies – to life.

This role is a critical leadership role in our new Strategy & Transformation function. This is a globally-aware, forward-looking team of professionals who push ahead, define and embed Nest’s strategy and its transformational agenda. We are multi-disciplinary. We identify and resolve strategic questions which will shape the future of Nest in fundamental ways, including questions about Nest’s operating model, our relationship with Government, and our role in the UK pension market.

We also own, maintain and embed a compelling, commercially successful strategy for Nest and ensure that the organisation is aligned with its goals both in terms of intent and – crucially – delivery.

We are a team which sees the big picture, asks stretching questions, challenges and collaborates, and demonstrates the confidence, curiosity and leadership to ensure Nest’s purpose, vision and direction are traced into all aspects of delivery at all levels.

We also recognise that strategy isn’t formulated and delivered in a vacuum. We understand and shape our external environment and bring this insight to bear on future strategy development.

Organisational Overview

Nest is a great government delivery success story. Established in 2010, Nest has been a critical pillar of the government’s automatic enrolment programme, with a public service obligation (PSO) to accept any employer wishing to use the scheme to discharge their automatic enrolment duties.

From a standing start, we have delivered a high quality, low cost pension scheme, open to all, which has not only delivered on its mission, but helped to drive up standards and best practice across the industry. Now with over 12 million members, Nest is playing a critical role in helping people save for their retirement many of them low to moderate earners who may be saving for the first time and moving jobs frequently.

Nest now occupies a place in the market as a major Master Trust, a sector that has grown following the introduction of automatic enrolment and that we believe has great potential for delivering pensions to mass market consumers for many years to come, leveraging scale to offer low cost, modernised services in the context of strong Trustee governance.

To best serve our diverse customer base, it’s important that Nest has an equally diverse workforce and promotes an inclusive culture. This is in line with the organisation’s values and ensures that Nest is a corporation fit for the future.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, we particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnicity, LGBTQ+ and disabled candidates. We are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, race, religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation or socio economic background.

We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

Nest is a Disability Confident Leader, which is the highest level of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have a disability, please declare that you’re applying through the scheme.

We aim to offer an interview to those applicants who apply through the Disability Confident Scheme and best meet the minimum criteria. However, there may be some circumstances where this is not possible due to the volume of applications.

Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.

If you have any difficulty in sending your application or need the application pack in an alternative format, or you require any reasonable adjustments please contact: [email protected].

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