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**Global Head of Business Readiness - Executive Director (Workplace Solutions)** Lead Business Readiness Team, driving change impact assessments, roadmaps, and adoption outcomes across organizational changes. Define and implement Business Readiness standards, governance, and tooling. Build, lead, and develop the team, identifying risks and removing organizational blockers. Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure consistency and drive continuous improvement. 10-15+ years of experience in large-scale program delivery and change management required. Executive stakeholder influence and proven track record in improving adoption outcomes necessary.

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Country: Ireland

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Location: Cork, Ireland

Lead the Business Readiness Team end to endowning the business readiness operating model, intake governance, impact assessment methodology, business readiness planning playbook & execution, and adoption outcomes across the organizations change portfolio.

Responsibilities:

End-to-end accountability for business readiness performance and adoption outcomes across programs/releases.

Define and implement Business Readiness standards, governance, and controls.

Build and lead the Business Readiness Team (capacity planning, talent development, performance management, stakeholder partnership model).

Set the Business Readiness strategy and operating model: roles/RACI, cadence, milestones, SLAs, deliverables, and tooling/reporting.

Provide executive oversight of intake and prioritization: ensure demand is triaged appropriately, ownership is clear, and high-risk changes receive appropriate business readiness rigor.

Chair/lead cross-functional Business Readiness governance with Product, Technology, PMO, LRCC, Communications, Training, and Operations leadership.

Ensure consistency and standardization (nomenclature, procedures, training strategy, comms approach) while allowing proportional tailoring by impact.

Establish adoption measurement frameworks (KPIs, dashboards, feedback loops) and drive decisive intervention when adoption is off-target.

Anticipate Business Readiness risks and remove organizational blockers (resource constraints, decision bottlenecks, conflicting priorities).

Report Business Readiness health, adoption outcomes, and key risks/decisions to senior leadership; provide clear recommendations and escalation paths.

Drive continuous improvement through post-release reviews, root-cause themes, and updates to standards, templates, and team practices.

Typical outputs:

Business Readiness operating model, standards, templates, stage-gate governance, and SLAs

Portfolio business readiness roadmap integrated with release strategy and capacity plans

Executive dashboards for business readiness health and adoption outcomes; escalation and remediation plans

Team capability plan (headcount/skills), performance goals, and development paths

Requirements:

1015+ years leading complex change, transformation, operating model, or large-scale program delivery in cross-functional environments.

Proven executive stakeholder influence and governance leadership; track record of improving adoption outcomes at scale.

Strong understanding of operational risk, controls, and business readiness disciplines; experience building/leading teams.

Lead Workplace Solutions Business Readiness Team.

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