Head of Strategic Transition

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.

We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.

We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.

Our Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best. 

Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day.

We’re hiring a Head of Strategic Transition to drive the execution of our Enterprise Technology Strategy, reporting to the Group Strategy Director – Digital, Data & Technology.

In this high-impact role, you’ll lead strategic alignment across Group and Divisional priorities, ensuring major programmes deliver clear business value. You’ll own the engagement and communication plan, building momentum and stakeholder buy-in at all levels.

We’re looking for someone who can think big, influence change, and navigate complexity, while embedding a culture of challenge, clarity, and compliance.

What you’ll be doing:

• Driving the evolution and implementation of the Enterprise Technology Strategy, ensuring alignment with Group objectives and maintaining a clear, benefit-led transformation roadmap
• Initiating strategic programmes across key technology themes—such as data, AI, innovation, and investment—by defining scope, building business cases, and sequencing delivery
• Accelerating innovation through rapid idea generation, experimentation, and strategic initiatives like AI Accelerators, while fostering partnerships with fintechs and tech providers
• Mobilising strategic programmes to generate commercial momentum, managing budgets, and ensuring smooth transition to delivery teams
• Managing risk across the strategic technology portfolio, supporting programme leads and risk functions to implement effective mitigation strategies
• Building strong cross-functional relationships to drive collaboration and regularly updating senior leadership on progress and strategic shifts
• Prioritising technology investments and measuring success against strategic objectives, while coordinating dependencies with the Enterprise Change Committee to sustain momentum
• Embedding conduct risk principles into daily operations to ensure processes deliver positive customer outcomes and meet regulatory standards
• Leading the management of direct reports, applying consistent practices aligned with Group policies to maximise team performance

Who we’re looking for:

• Demonstrated success in equivalent senior roles, with clear evidence of capability and impact
• Extensive background in Asset Management, Protection, and Retirement, with a strong track record in driving cultural and transformational change
• Skilled in navigating complex planning environments, with a sharp strategic mindset and ability to execute across global matrixed organisations
• Adept at bridging business and technology, delivering pragmatic, cost-effective solutions that drive value
• Experienced in enhancing organisational effectiveness through people, processes, technology, and knowledge development
• Highly organised and detail-oriented, with the ability to lead multiple initiatives, prioritise ruthlessly, and manage high volumes of work independently
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to engage, influence, and collaborate
• Proven ability to inspire, develop, and mentor talent, fostering growth and high performance

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. 

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can. 

It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.