Director of Studies jobs

• Please note this is a 12 month fixed term contract

This is a rare opportunity to lead a high-profile transformation agenda at BRE and play a pivotal role in how we deliver our strategy, scale our impact, and prepare for the future.

In this role you'll work directly with senior leaders to redesign how the organisation operates, helping us unlock greater effectiveness, innovation, and value. You'll combine strategic thinking with practical delivery, creating operating models that make the most of people, processes, data, digital tools, and emerging technologies, including AI.

About the Role

BRE is evolving to meet changing customer needs, accelerate growth, and maximise its impact. This role will lead the design and delivery of organisation-wide operating model transformation, ensuring we have the structures, capabilities, governance, and ways of working needed to achieve our long-term ambitions.

Reporting into the Director of People, you will be acting as a senior internal consultant, you'll work across the business to assess current organisational effectiveness, identify opportunities for improvement, and design practical solutions that support strategic goals. From developing future-state operating models through to implementation and embedding change, you'll lead end-to-end transformation that delivers measurable business value.

You'll collaborate with leaders across technical, research, commercial, and corporate functions, helping create a more agile, data-driven, and technology-enabled organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead organisation-wide organisational design and operating model transformation initiatives.

• Assess current structures, processes, governance, capabilities, and technology to identify improvement opportunities.

• Develop future-state operating models that align with BRE's strategy and support growth, innovation, and impact.

• Design practical solutions spanning organisation design, governance, processes, roles, skills, data, and technology.

• Build roadmaps and implementation plans that translate strategy into action.

• Drive adoption of data-led decision-making and technology-enabled ways of working, including AI where appropriate.

• Facilitate senior leadership workshops and support key organisational decisions.

• Act as a trusted advisor to executives, providing evidence-based recommendations and constructive challenge.

• Lead implementation and change activities to ensure successful adoption and sustainable outcomes.

• Track benefits and measure the impact of transformation initiatives.

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience leading operating model transformation and organisational design in complex, knowledge-based, technical, or professional services environments.

• A track record of delivering end-to-end transformation programmes, from assessment and design through to implementation and embedding change.

• Strong experience translating business strategy into practical operating models, structures, governance, processes, and ways of working.

• The ability to use data and evidence to assess organisational effectiveness and inform decision-making.

• Experience designing organisations that effectively leverage digital solutions, data, and emerging technologies, including AI.

• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience advising and challenging senior leaders.

• Excellent facilitation, communication, and consulting skills.

• The ability to navigate ambiguity, build alignment across diverse stakeholder groups, and deliver measurable outcomes.

Most importantly, you'll be someone who is energised by transformation, enjoys working across organisational boundaries, and is passionate about helping organisations perform at their best.

BRE Benefits

At BRE, we offer a competitive salary, reviewed annually, along with a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your financial security, well-being, and career development.

Financial & Security Benefits

• Pension scheme – 5% employer-matched contribution

• Life assurance – 4x your basic salary

• Enhanced maternity package

Health & Wellbeing

• HealthPartners cashback scheme – Reclaim costs on prescriptions, physiotherapy, dental care, and more

• Onsite facilities – Restaurant, nursery, and free parking, including at-cost EV charging points

Career Development

• Learning & development – Free access to BRE Academy and our online learning platform

• Professional membership reimbursement

For full details on our benefits, visit: BRE Employee Benefits

Work Location Options

Mostly Remote – This role is primarily home-based, with occasional travel to our head office in Watford for planned meetings (1 to 2 times per calendar month).

Our Recruitment Process

As part of our recruitment process we will be conducting 10-30 minute phone screening calls via an AI recruiter called Ryan with all shortlisted candidates. The information gathered from this screening will be used to help assess your suitability for the position.

Note to Employment Agencies

At BRE, we value the relationships we have built with our preferred recruitment partners. We do not accept unsolicited CVs from employment agencies. Any CVs submitted directly to a BRE employee or hiring manager without a signed BRE Employment Agency Agreement and an active engagement for the specific role will be considered unsolicited. In such cases, no fees will be payable should the candidate be hired through this or any other means.

Equal Opportunities Statement

BRE is an equal opportunities employer. We assess all qualified applicants based on merit and do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.