Head of Enterprise Portfolio Delivery

Job Description

Head of Enterprise Portfolio Delivery

• Lead delivery of complex, high value change across a major enterprise portfolio


• Shape how change is delivered and the value it creates across NFU Mutual


• Hybrid role with a balance of home and office-based working in Stratford-upon-Avon

About the role

As Head of Enterprise Portfolio Delivery, you will lead the Change Delivery function and be accountable for delivering Group Change across the Enterprise Change Portfolio. In this pivotal leadership role, you will be at the centre of how change is delivered across NFU Mutual, overseeing a complex portfolio of strategic programmes and ensuring delivery is aligned to business priorities and executed successfully across time, cost, quality and scope. You will also ensure change delivers meaningful outcomes for our customers, our people and NFU Mutual.

You will bring clarity, pace and alignment across the portfolio, ensuring priorities are clear, plans are realistic and momentum is maintained. Working across multiple programmes, you will manage interdependencies, identify risks early and keep delivery on track.

A key focus of the role is shaping and embedding a consistent enterprise approach to delivery, strengthening how change is delivered across NFU Mutual. This includes driving greater consistency, improving risk management and enabling faster learning and stronger value realisation, supported by communities of practice and shared insight.

From the outset, you will ensure NFU Mutual is set up for successful delivery by balancing demand with capacity, assessing capability needs and supporting effective prioritisation so commitments are realistic and achievable.

Operating at a senior level, you will work closely with stakeholders across NFU Mutual, providing insight, challenge and direction to support decision making. You will help leaders navigate complexity, understand delivery trade-offs and protect the outcomes that matter most.

As a leader, you will create the conditions for high performing teams to thrive, setting clear expectations, providing effective oversight and fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.

About you

An experienced and credible change leader, with a strong track record of leading complex portfolios in large organisations.

A combination of strategic perspective and delivery discipline enables you to bring clarity to complexity, align priorities and maintain focus on the outcomes that matter most, while operating at pace and making sound judgements in a fast-moving environment.

Strong enterprise change expertise underpins your ability to lead large scale delivery while maintaining a clear view of risk, dependency, capacity and value. This is complemented by the ability to translate strategy into executable plans and create the conditions for sustainable delivery.

As an influential senior stakeholder leader, you build trusted relationships, offer constructive challenge and communicate with clarity and confidence at executive level, helping shape decisions and navigate complexity.

A strong people leader, you create an environment where teams can perform at their best, providing clarity, support and accountability while building capability, strengthening delivery maturity and taking a pragmatic, commercially aware approach to decision making.

Qualifications and experience you will need

• Highly effective stakeholder management skills, able to influence and build trusted relationships at executive level


• Strategic leadership capability, with the ability to set direction and align delivery to organisational priorities


• Recognised project or programme management qualifications, or equivalent experience


• Experience working within a regulated environment, ideally in a financial services environment


• A strong focus on delivering value and maintaining a customer-centric approach

At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.

We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.

Benefits and Rewards

When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:

• Salary of up to £130,000, dependent upon experience


• Annual bonus (up to 33% of salary)


• Car allowance of £7,000


• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution


• 28 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme


• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities


• Private medical insurance family cover


• Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets


• £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs


• Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more


• Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year


• Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme


• Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary


• Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.

Working at NFU Mutual

We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services organisations, and for over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us, so we’re proud to be recognised as “a great place to work”.

Our Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2026 award was not only awarded with Distinction, but it also marked us as the first UK based company to earn a Gallup Exceptional Workplace award for eleven consecutive years. We’ve also been consistently recognised by Glassdoor. We appeared in the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK list in 2023, 2024 and 2026 — and in 2026, we were the highest ranked insurance business in the UK, highlighting our strong employee experience and the positive feedback our people share on the platform.

Additionally, we were named in the LinkedIn Top Companies 2026 list of “Best midsize employers to grow your career in the UK”, and we’ve been certified as a UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026.
We offer a supportive and empowering culture where people are inspired to perform, given opportunities to grow, and recognised and rewarded for their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable—so we’re successful now and in the future.