Title: Senior Transformation & Business Improvement Manager
Department: Business Change
Location: Sheffield
Working Pattern: Hybrid, includes 3 days each week in the office
Contact Type: Full time, permanent
Salary: Up to £90,000 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 Senior Transformation & Business Improvement Manager will spearhead the delivery of high-impact, high-volume business improvement initiatives across the organisation. This senior role is pivotal in driving operational efficiency, reducing cost to serve, and enhancing both customer and colleague experiences. The successful candidate will adopt a consultancy-style approach, leveraging methodologies such as Lean, Six Sigma, and time & motion studies to identify and eliminate inefficiencies at scale.
Key Responsibilities:
* Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of strategic projects from initiation through to implementation and benefits realisation.
* Develop and maintain delivery plans, resource forecasts, and risk mitigation strategies.
* Define and embed best practice delivery methodologies (e.g. Agile, hybrid) tailored to business needs.
* Monitor and report on delivery performance, timelines, and value metrics.
* Champion change management principles to ensure successful adoption of new processes, systems, or behaviours.
* Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to remove blockers and accelerate delivery.
* Coach and mentor team members, providing clear direction, feedback, and development opportunities.
* Continuously improve delivery processes and tools to enhance efficiency and reduce time to value.
* Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, providing insight and recommendations on delivery strategy and change readiness.
End-to-End Delivery Ownership
Accountable for the successful delivery of roadmap initiatives, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and measurable business outcomes.
Change Leadership
Owns the implementation of change across the business, ensuring changes are embedded, adopted, and sustained effectively.
Methodology & Delivery Framework
Responsible for defining, maintaining, and evolving the delivery methodology to optimise speed, consistency, and value realisation.
Value Realisation
Accountable for tracking and reporting on value delivered, including cost savings, efficiency improvements, and time-to-value metrics.
Team Leadership & Development
Leads a team of delivery and change professionals, fostering a high-performance culture and supporting individual growth.
Stakeholder Engagement
Ensures effective communication and alignment with stakeholders across the business to support delivery and change initiatives.
What You Need to Succeed
Experience
You will have a proven track record of leading delivery and change initiatives within complex organisations, with experience in applying delivery methodologies to accelerate time to value, and a strong background in stakeholder engagement, team leadership, and realising measurable business benefits.
Knowledge
You will possess deep knowledge of delivery and change management principles, including project lifecycle methodologies (e.g. Agile, Waterfall, hybrid), change adoption frameworks, and value realisation techniques, alongside a strong understanding of business operations and stakeholder dynamics.
Skills
You will demonstrate strong leadership and team management skills, excellent project and change delivery capabilities, and the ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels, alongside analytical thinking, problem-solving, and a continuous improvement mindset.
Qualifications
You will bring substantial hands-on experience in delivering complex projects and leading change within dynamic environments. Whilst formal certifications such as PRINCE2, AgilePM, Scrum Master, or Prosciare are desirable, they are not essential—what matters most is a demonstrable ability to apply delivery and change principles effectively to drive measurable outcomes.
What do you get in return?
* 25 days annual leave rising to 30
* 5% pension after probation
* 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.