Interim Head of Enterprise Change | General Insurance | London hybrid | August start
About the Opportunity
We are supporting a leading General Insurance organisation seeking an experienced Interim Head of Change to lead and shape its enterprise change agenda during a critical period of strategic planning and transformation.
This is a highly visible leadership role, responsible for ensuring change investment is aligned to business priorities, driving effective delivery across a complex portfolio, and strengthening the organisation's change capability. Working closely with Executive stakeholders, you will provide leadership across portfolio governance, transformation delivery, operating model design, and strategic investment planning.
The successful candidate will bring a blend of strategic thinking, hands-on leadership, and strong stakeholder management skills, with a proven track record of leading large-scale change functions within complex regulated environments.
Key Responsibilities
Lead Enterprise Change Strategy
Provide leadership and direction across the organisation's change portfolio, ensuring strategic alignment with business objectives.
Champion best practice change delivery and governance across the wider business.
Partner with Executive leaders to shape and prioritise transformation initiatives that deliver measurable business value.
Drive Portfolio Prioritisation & Investment Planning
Lead the rationalisation and prioritisation of the change portfolio.
Own and facilitate the 2027 Strategic Investment process, ensuring initiatives are assessed against business priorities and capacity.
Review and challenge investment cases, validating business justifications, benefits, risks, and delivery assumptions.
Deliver Strategic Change Outcomes
Oversee the successful delivery of key programmes and change initiatives across the organisation.
Ensure effective governance, reporting, risk management, and decision-making processes are in place.
Support leaders in navigating complex organisational and operational change.
Lead Audit-Driven Change Activity
Drive the implementation of change initiatives arising from Internal Audit findings.
Ensure recommendations are delivered effectively, embedded into operational processes, and generate sustainable business improvements.
Work across business functions to strengthen controls, governance, and organisational effectiveness.
Build Future Change Capability
Enhance change management capabilities across the organisation.
Support the evolution of the change operating model, governance structures, and delivery frameworks.
Mentor and develop change leaders and delivery teams to create a high-performing transformation function.
Required Experience
We're interested in speaking with candidates who can demonstrate experience across:
Enterprise Change Strategy and Leadership
Change Portfolio Management and Prioritisation
Executive and Board-Level Stakeholder Engagement
Programme and Transformation Delivery
Organisational Design and Operating Model Development
Change Capability Building and Maturity Improvement
Governance, Risk, and Regulatory Change Environments
Financial Services and/or Insurance sector experience
What We're Looking For
You will be a credible and influential change leader, comfortable engaging at Executive level and navigating complex organisational environments. You'll combine strategic thinking with practical delivery expertise and have a strong track record of implementing sustainable change across large-scale portfolios.
Experience within insurance or broader financial services environments will be highly advantageous.
Why Apply?
This is an opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping the change agenda of a major insurer at a strategically important time. You'll work alongside senior executives, influence investment decisions, and leave a lasting impact on the organisation's transformation capability and delivery outcomes.
Vantage Point Global is a fully committed Equal Opportunities, inclusive employer. We are passionate about attracting diverse talent and welcome applications from candidates regardless of ethnicity, culture, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability, or sexual orientation.
- Department
- Experienced Hires
- Locations
- London
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Employment level
- Executive/Senior Level
About Vantage Point
Vantage Point Global (VP) is a talent consultancy established in 2014 to support top-tier clients in building their talent pipeline. VP provides opportunities for all, hiring exceptional, diverse talent who are supported and developed throughout their career journey at VP, enabling them to be highly effective in their roles.
We partner with our clients to create opportunities for individuals to launch into fulfilling and rewarding careers in the industries we serve and deliver a future-ready workforce to our clients.
Our unique model delivers continuous formal training, personal development and mentoring to create a driven, high-calibre, highly skilled workforce that is empowered to add value to our clients from the outset.
Our head office is in London, but we work with clients globally. We currently have teams in London, Manchester, Newcastle, Belfast, Warsaw, Wroclaw and are expanding into the US and Asia.
Vantage Point Global is a fully committed inclusive employer. We are passionate about attracting diverse talent, and welcome applications regardless of ethnicity, culture, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability, or sexual orientation.