Enterprise Operating Model Lead

Enterprise Operating Model Lead

Contract type: Permanent
Location: London
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

We’re scaling our business at Royal London Asset Management and expanding into new markets and asset classes, and we’re looking for a senior leader to shape how that growth happens.

As Enterprise Operating Model Lead, you’ll own and evolve RLAM’s Target Operating Model, ensuring it enables strategic growth without creating complexity, fragmentation, or unnecessary cost. Acting as the architect, steward, and challenger of the enterprise operating model, you’ll ensure it remains simple, scalable, and aligned to clear design principles as the business evolves.

You’ll work closely with senior leaders and Executive Committee stakeholders, governing change through the Operating Model Committee and influencing how major strategic initiatives are designed and delivered. You’ll bring rigour to decision‑making, assessing impact, challenging assumptions, and balancing commercial flexibility with long‑term sustainability.

This role is ideal for a senior professional with deep operating model expertise, likely from a consulting or enterprise strategy background, who can design, govern, and embed operating models. Asset management experience is essential: credibility in this role comes from understanding the realities of the sector and confidently shaping operating models that work in practice.

This is a rare opportunity to define the future operating model of a purpose‑driven asset manager at a pivotal point in its growth journey.

About the role

• Own the blueprints for the firm’s Target Operating Model, principles, and supporting artefacts
• Ensure ongoing alignment between strategy, Operating Model, and execution
• Anticipate Operating Model implications of strategic initiatives
• Prepare and structure the agenda for the Operating Model Committee
• Act as lead advisor to the Committee, framing issues, trade-offs, and recommendations
• Prepare and structure the agenda for the Operating Model Committee
• Act as lead advisor to the Committee, framing issues, trade-offs, and recommendations

• Collaborate with senior executives, Programme directors, risk teams, and external partners to support and influence the transformational agenda

About you

Proven track record in:

• Senior leader background, with effective and strong communication
• Operating Model stewardship, design and implementation
• Large-scale organisational or platform change
• Demonstrable use of tools/techniques that can lead a senior audience through a complex business problem
• Proven advanced stakeholder management skills at all levels of the organisation including board level.
• Exposure to both listed and private asset Operating Models preferred
• Credible and authoritative without being bureaucratic
• Excellent planning, co-ordination and organisation skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to tailor approach to different levels of stakeholders
• Strong conflict management and negotiating skills
• Works effectively as part of their teams, identifies and effectively solves problems, and collaborates effectively at all times
• Personally credible with the ability to command confidence from senior stakeholders.
• Able to act decisively in critical situations
• Potential to lead a team

About Royal London Asset Management

Royal London Asset Management (RLAM), part of the Royal London Group, is one of the UK's leading fund management companies working with a wide range of clients across the globe to achieve their investment goals. Our long-term, client-driven focus means that we have a long-standing commitment to responsible investment. We act as responsible stewards of our clients’ capital, exercising their rights and influencing positive change. 

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve. 

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.

Inclusion, diversity and belonging

We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.