Specialist, Transformation

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    "raw": "About Us\n McDonalds has run its business in the UK since 1974 and currently operates over 1500 restaurants across the UK and Ireland, serving almost four million customers each day. McDonalds is one of the UKs largest private sector employers, employing over 170,000 people.\n Department Overview \r We are excited to appoint a Portfolio & Program Management Specialist, within the Transformation team for McDonald’s UK & Ireland .\n You will be dedicated to portfolio management efforts related to Enterprise Transformation and will work across functions, programs, projects and initiatives to plan and govern an integrated approach.\n You will oversee all initiatives that feed into the governance ‘intake’ process and function as the gatekeeper for quality assurance across each stage of the project lifecycle from intake and prioritization, through to delivery and value realization.\n In addition, you’ll collaborate with other Specialists to assure the quality of inputs into the wider Transformation roadmap for the UK & Ireland. You will work alongside Change Management, Technology and National Operations to identify the impact to the business and plan for successful implementation and adoption.\n Your expertise in building business cases and successful working relationships with cross-functional stakeholders will help make sure we have a robust approach to achieve our organizational goals. This role requires excellent attention to detail and a strong ability to join the dots, along with a passion to shape the future improvement and evolution of the team.\n What Team will I be a part?\n You will be part of the Transformation team in the UK & Ireland market, reporting to the Senior Manager of Transformation. The team plays an important role in helping the business deliver the right initiatives, in the right way, to support our restaurants, people, and customers.\n Working closely with teams across the business, Transformation brings together strong delivery discipline, operational excellence, and practical problem‑solving to improve how we work and how change is delivered. The team is expected to challenge constructively, keep things simple, and focus on solutions that make a real difference in the market.\n In this role, you will collaborate with colleagues within the market, as well as with global teams and external partners, to align priorities, manage complexity, and support effective delivery. It’s a great opportunity to contribute to meaningful change, strengthen execution capability, and help shape how transformation shows up day‑to‑day across the business.\n Who are my customers?\n Given the central nature of the role, you will work with a wide range of stakeholders. Building strong relationships, listening carefully, and engaging with authenticity are essential, as is the ability to tailor your approach to different audiences while staying grounded in what matters most to the business.\n Key stakeholders you will work with include (but are not limited to):\n Transformation team – working together to stay aligned on priorities, maintain delivery discipline, and support progress against the NEXT vision.\n Business Leadership Team (BLT) – using governance and insight to support effective decision‑making.\n Impact team – partnering to ensure messages are simple, clear, and consistent, and that strategic intent is translated into language that resonates.\n Franchisees – collaborating as valued business partners, recognising their role as key enablers of change in the market.\n Suppliers and external partners – working together in a smart, pragmatic way to maximise value and make the most of our scale.\n Restaurants – keeping everything we do grounded in the reality of restaurant operations, ensuring changes are practical, relevant, and deployed effectively.\n Duties \r Evolving our Portfolio function for effective business planning:\n Adopt a ‘big picture’ view when assessing and prioritizing enterprise-wide initiatives\nMaintain and quality control the integrated “Transformation Plan”. This is a joined-up roadmap that shows Global and Market enterprise programs and projects, marketing campaigns and functional initiatives that takes into consideration the change impacts to all three legs of the stool\nEnsure that all dependencies are properly articulated and controlled. If necessary, escalations will need to be made if any dependencies are at risk of crystallization\nSupport the development and management of the key artefacts, identifying room for continuous improvement\n Facilitating effective Governance & Control:\n Ensure that the Stage Gate process is followed for all relevant programs and projects across the lifecycle:\nAt initial ‘Concept’, determine the strategic priority\nEnsure that all initiatives have effectively been assessed and prioritized against Restaurant Impact (“RISC”) and Technology enablers\nSupport the business case information gathering across costs, benefits and risks\nSupport the definition of the deployment approach\nManage change requests\nWhen a Stage Gate is “ready” for assessment – supporting Project Managers / Initiative Leads with getting all required checks completed\nQuality assuring all relevant documentation that is required to assure that a Stage Gate can be progressed\n Support with Cost/Benefit Analysis:\n Provide constructive challenge to owners on the benefits and costs associated with projects, ensuring sound decision-making\nScrutinize budget alignment with project objectives, collaborating closely with the functional G&A owner and/",
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McDonalds is one of the UKs largest private sector employers, employing over 170,000 people.\n Department Overview \r We are excited to appoint a Portfolio & Program Management Specialist, within the Transformation team for McDonald’s UK & Ireland .\n You will be dedicated to portfolio management efforts related to Enterprise Transformation and will work across functions, programs, projects and initiatives to plan and govern an integrated approach.\n You will oversee all initiatives that feed into the governance ‘intake’ process and function as the gatekeeper for quality assurance across each stage of the project lifecycle from intake and prioritization, through to delivery and value realization.\n In addition, you’ll collaborate with other Specialists to assure the quality of inputs into the wider Transformation roadmap for the UK & Ireland. 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Building strong relationships, listening carefully, and engaging with authenticity are essential, as is the ability to tailor your approach to different audiences while staying grounded in what matters most to the business.\n Key stakeholders you will work with include (but are not limited to):\n Transformation team – working together to stay aligned on priorities, maintain delivery discipline, and support progress against the NEXT vision.\n Business Leadership Team (BLT) – using governance and insight to support effective decision‑making.\n Impact team – partnering to ensure messages are simple, clear, and consistent, and that strategic intent is translated into language that resonates.\n Franchisees – collaborating as valued business partners, recognising their role as key enablers of change in the market.\n Suppliers and external partners – working together in a smart, pragmatic way to maximise value and make the most of our scale.\n Restaurants – keeping everything we do grounded in the reality of restaurant operations, ensuring changes are practical, relevant, and deployed effectively.\n Duties \r Evolving our Portfolio function for effective business planning:\n Adopt a ‘big picture’ view when assessing and prioritizing enterprise-wide initiatives\nMaintain and quality control the integrated “Transformation Plan”. 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