Senior Business Transformation Manager

Location: Beechcroft House, Curdridge, Southampton, SO32 2DP with hybrid working available

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust is shaping a wilder future for our counties – protecting special places, restoring habitats and inspiring people to act for nature. As part of the UK’s fastest-growing movement for nature’s recovery, we lead with passion, integrity and bold thinking. Join a team where your work has purpose, your ideas matter, and you can help create lasting change for wildlife and people.

We are seeking a Senior Business Transformation Manager to join our cause.

This is an exciting new role that will play a central part in transforming how the Trust operates. We need to ensure we have future-ready organisation to enable us to deliver our ambitious new Wilder strategy. The Senior Business Transformation Manager will lead a vital strand of organisational development work – modernising our systems, processes, and facilities to ensure we operate effectively, sustainably, and in full compliance with our legal and governance responsibilities. This role is perfect for a dynamic and adaptable leader who enjoys driving change in a fast-evolving organisation.

What you’ll be doing:

Working closely with the Director of Finance and Resources, you will lead a team of skilled specialists across several key business support functions including Facilities, IT & Digital Transformation, Governance & Compliance and Health & Safety. You will drive change across these key areas, ensuring that we meet our net zero goals alongside developing modern, efficient and well managed business services; helping our 150+ staff work effectively and confidently. You’ll use your expertise to identify and implement improvements that help us grow and thrive as we work towards our mission of bringing wildlife back. You will play a crucial role in supporting the smooth and effective operation of the Trust’s business management, Board of Trustees, and committees. Acting as Company Secretary on behalf of the Trustee Board, you will ensure the delivery of a first-class governance service, while also supporting the CEO and wider Executive team to operate more efficiently through improving ways of working and strengthening organisational processes.

About you:

• You’ll be a confident, forward-thinking leader with experience in delivering organisational or digital transformation in a complex, multi-site environment.
• You’ll combine strategic thinking with a practical, hands-on approach and have a passion for making organisations work better for people and the planet.
• You’ll be a supportive and strategic people manager, invested in helping your team develop and succeed, while creating an environment where skilled professionals can do their best work and make a real impact.
• With a focus on planning, problem-solving, and championing best practices, you’ll help align our business services and infrastructure with the Trust’s evolving needs and long-term goals.

Wild About Inclusion!

As an inclusive employer we recognise that our workforce needs to better reflect the communities in which we live and work. We encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly those underrepresented within our sector, including people from black, Asian, minority Ethnic backgrounds and people with disabilities. We are committed to creating a Movement that recognises and truly values individual differences and identities.

Disability Confident

We are proudly a Disability Confident Committed employer. The scheme is helping us recruit and retain great people to meet our workforce needs. As a member of the scheme, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. You can request adjustments including accessible formats of this vacancy by emailing us. To be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme you must:

• Identify as being disabled which under the Equality Act 2010 means a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial*, long term** adverse effect on your ability to carry out normal day to day activities; or a long-term health condition; and;
  (*Substantial is more than minor or trivial **Long-term means 12 months or more)
• Set out how you meet all the minimum qualifying criteria set out in the person specification for the post at the application and testing stages. This is a requirement for all candidates, not just those applying under the scheme.

We are happy to discuss the possibilities of hybrid and flexible working

This role will be based at our office in Curdridge, however, we are happy to accommodate a hybrid working routine, and discuss a pattern of work which mutually suits the candidate and the Trust. Traditionally, office hours are Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm with an hour lunch break. We value spending time working in-person to develop strong connections with each other and with our mission, so we although we offer hybrid working, we do not offer full home working within our roles. We offer a wide range of benefits including a competitive salary, generous annual leave allowance, a contributory pension scheme, life assurance, learning and development support, 24-hour access to our employee assistance programme, discounted staff travel with our corporate partners Wightlink (subject to T&Cs), free parking at our sites and more.

Closing date: 09 January 2026. Applications will be reviewed for interview on a rolling basis, we may contact candidates before the closing date for interviews. We may close this vacancy early when we receive sufficient applications for this role.

To apply for the role, please click on the 'Apply Now' button. In the ‘supporting information’ section, you’ll need to demonstrate, with detailed examples, how you meet the job requirements using the Job Description and Person Specification.

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