Senior Manager, Strategic Transformation Office

Job description

Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people’s career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed. The Senior Manager, Strategic Transformation governs and coordinates the organization’s strategic transformation agenda at an enterprise level. The role provides oversight across strategic initiatives owned by business and functional pillars, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities, disciplined execution, and transparent reporting of progress, risks, dependencies, and outcomes, supported by effective transformation governance, prioritization, and integration mechanisms to enable timely senior management decision‑making The key responsibilities of the role are: Support the Head of Corporate Strategy & Transformation Office in governing and coordinating the enterprise strategic transformation agenda in line with agreed enterprise priorities. Establish and operate enterprise‑level transformation governance, including prioritisation principles, dependency management, and escalation mechanisms across strategic initiatives. Oversee and consolidate enterprise transformation progress, key risks, interdependencies, and outcomes across business and functional pillars. Review and assess strategic transformation proposals and business cases to ensure clarity of scope, alignment with enterprise priorities, and robustness of value rationale. Coordinate inputs from initiative owners and stakeholders to support informed decision‑making at senior management and other governance forums. Provide clear, concise, and decision‑oriented transformation reporting to senior management, steering committees, and governance forums. Promote consistent transformation discipline, standards, and accountability across the organisation without duplicating or displacing delivery ownership. Oversee the establishment and ongoing effectiveness of enterprise transformation and PMO governance practices across strategic initiatives. Support transition planning as the strategic transformation agenda evolves, including potential scale‑down or integration into steady‑state operating models over time. Job Requirements : Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Project Management, or a related discipline. Strong experience in strategic transformation, enterprise PMO, strategy execution, or governance roles within complex organisations. Proven ability to operate at enterprise level and engage senior stakeholders across multiple functions and business units. Solid understanding of transformation governance, portfolio management, dependency management, and benefit oversight. Experience preparing executive‑level materials and reporting for senior management forums. Key Attributes : Strong enterprise and governance mindset with the ability to manage complexity across multiple initiatives. Able to maintain clear separation between governance and delivery ownership. Structured, analytical, and disciplined approach to transformation oversight. Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills at senior management levels. Comfortable operating in ambiguity and evolving transformation environments. Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.