Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
Sets organisational strategy and provides clear strategic direction for APHA’s change and transformation portfolio, ensuring programmes are prioritised, sequenced and resourced to deliver maximum value.
Lead development of APHA’s long-term operating model, ensuring alignment to the Agency’s strategic ambitions and Defra Group objectives.
Act as a key adviser to the CEO, Directors and Defra Group partners on transformation, organisational change, and major delivery risks.
Portfolio & Programme Leadership
Own and lead the APHA change and transformation portfolio, ensuring coherent delivery across all change activity.
Oversee and assure all major programmes including:
* EU Reset Programme – ensuring APHA systems, processes and capability meet new regulatory and trading requirements
* APHA Synergy – driving cross‑Agency, cross‑functional alignment, enhanced data integration, and streamlined operations
* Delivering Sustainable Futures Programme – ensuring APHA is future‑ready, digitally enabled, financially sustainable and resilient
* APHA Change Projects – from people change to digital modernisation.
Ensure programmes deliver intended benefits, secure value for money, and operate within agreed cost, time and quality tolerances.
Sponsor and chair governance boards, ensuring compliance with Defra, CO and HM Treasury standards (including GMPP where required).
Capability & Leadership of Project Delivery and Change
Lead and develop APHA’s project, programme and change professions, including PMO, portfolio management, business change and transformation specialists.
Drive professional capability uplift aligned to the Government Project Delivery Framework and OPD standards.
Ensure robust assurance, risk management and delivery methodologies are embedded consistently.
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