Head of Business Transformation

Tes; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job description

Grays Inn Rd, London WC1X 8NH, UK ● Norfolk St, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2JE, UK Req #989

18 March 2025

Title: Head of Business Transformation

Department: Business Change & Delivery

Location: Sheffield or London, 3+ days in office each week

Contact Type: Full time, permanent

Salary: Up to £120,000 per annum

Tes is an international provider of software-enabled services passionate about using technology to make life easier for schools and teachers. All products and services are built with teachers and schools needs at the core, ensuring they are innovative, trusted education solutions.

Role overview:

The Head of Business Transformation will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing strategic initiatives that drive operational excellence, scalability, and business growth. Leading a multidisciplinary team of project managers, transformation leads, business analysts, and business systems specialists, you will spearhead programs that enhance efficiency, optimize processes, and integrate acquisitions seamlessly.

This role is fundamental in establishing the business at the forefront of the SaaS industry for the Education markets by implementing best practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and enabling data-driven decision-making.

SaaS Operational Excellence

• Drive the evolution of our operating model to establish best-in-class SaaS capabilities.
• Leverage technology to enhance customer experience, operational efficiency, and business scalability.
• Design and implement streamlined, high-impact processes that support sustainable growth.

Integration of Acquired Companies

• Lead the successful onboarding of acquisitions into the Tes ecosystem.
• Maximize business value and customer benefits by optimizing post-merger integration.
• Align operational models to harness synergies and drive strategic objectives.
• Establish and oversee a centralized business roadmap.
• Ensure the seamless execution of strategic initiatives across departments and regions.
• Develop monitoring systems to track performance, enabling agile business planning and adaptation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and lead the delivery of a value-driven change programme made of wide range of critical and strategic initiatives throughout the business.
• Identify, assess, and prioritize transformation initiatives to drive business improvement.
• Define and implement best-practice methodologies, standardized business processes, and governance frameworks.
• Develop, mentor, and manage a high-performing team.
• Engage with stakeholders across the organization to optimize resource allocation and maximize impact.
• Establish robust metrics to monitor project delivery and business impact.
• Support & coach the teams in problem solving complex challenges, identifying best ways forward, and removing blockers.
• Manage budgets effectively while ensuring strong governance across workstreams.
• Implement clear communication frameworks to align stakeholders and mitigate risks proactively.
• Champion best practices in project management, business analysis, change management, and Agile methodologies.
• Foster a company-wide culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.

What will you need to succeed?

Experience

• Proven experience in leading and delivering complex transformation programs in fast-paced environments, ideally within SaaS.
• Demonstrated track record in driving large-scale business transformation and accelerating growth.
• Experience in building and leading high-performing teams.
• Prior experience in SaaS operations and business transformation.

Knowledge

• Strong strategic and operational acumen with a talent for optimizing business processes.
• Deep understanding of Agile delivery methodologies.
• Expertise in project management, change management, and business process optimization.

Skills

• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Strong analytical and organizational capabilities.
• Problem solver with an ability to bring clarity to chaos.
• A natural leader with the ability to inspire and drive change.
• Ability to develop and implement data-driven decision-making processes.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced transformation leader to drive meaningful change and play a key role in positioning the company as a global SaaS leader.

What do you get in return?

• 25 days annual leave rising to 30
• State of the art city centre offices
• Access to a range of benefits via My Benefits World
• Discounted city centre parking
• Free eye care cover
• Life Assurance
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• EAP (Employee assistance programme)
• Monthly Tes Socials
• Access to an extensive Learning and Development menu

Who are Tes?

Tes has been supporting the education sector for over a century, growing and changing alongside the evolution of education. Today, Tes is focused on providing digital solutions to support school leaders and teachers with wellbeing, continuous professional development, safeguarding, SEND provision, flexibility through timetabling, and pupil behaviour management.

Our Vision is to power schools and enable great teaching worldwide, by creating intelligent online products and services to make the greatest difference in education.

Tes has over 13m teachers in its online community and working relationships with 25,000 schools in over 100 countries. Tes helps schools find the teachers they need via a range of recruitment solutions; brings new teachers into the profession through initial teacher training; provides teachers with continuous professional development and world class safeguarding training. It also offers a range of expert tools for the classroom from timetabling, SEND provision, and behaviour management solutions to dynamic staff surveying and wellbeing tools. Tes brings educators together online so they can share expertise and teaching resources and it provides them with vital information, research and analysis about education via its fully digital Tes Magazine.

Tes is a global company employing over 600 people and operating across 10 offices, including in London, Sheffield, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Dubai.

We are proud of our people centric culture where everyone is driven to achieve the same goal. We are an agile organization striving for continuous improvement. We invest in our people with extensive learning and development opportunities and support our colleagues with various mentoring and career enhancement programmes.

Tes Global will ensure all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or on the basis of disability. We invite applicants to contact us directly to identify any additional support required.