Transformation Manager

Starting from £70,000 per annum, based on skills and experience
Full time: 40 hours a week (for an exceptional candidate, we would consider a part-time arrangement)
2 year fixed-term contract
Based in: Covent Garden, London

The Royal Ballet and Opera continues to lead the way in opera, ballet, music and dance both live on stage and through multiple digital platforms, from live streaming to worldwide cinema screenings. Our Covent Garden theatre has been at the heart of London and British cultural life for three centuries. We are home to two world-class Companies: The Royal Ballet and The Royal Opera .

The Royal Opera House describes the place we work, not who we are. The whole is always more than the sum of its parts - we may be a House, but three quarters of our audiences experience what we do outside this building. While our Covent Garden theatre is the nerve centre, the impact and influence of the organisation can be felt in every corner of the country, and around the world.

The Transformation Office is a new department at the Royal Ballet & Opera that has been set up to facilitate delivery of the organisation's long-term strategy. This department will identify, scope and implement a major transformation programme including running cross-functional projects and leading change on key organisational processes.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the RBO at a pivotal moment, helping to promote its reputation as a world class performing arts organisation, whilst ensuring that its business model, internal processes and financial sustainability are secure for the future. This truly is a cross-functional role that will operate across all departments and engage with senior level stakeholders to support critical decisions about future planning.

Our successful candidate will be a driven, analytical thinker who is happy to challenge the status quo and look at problem solving with a fresh perspective. They will be able to demonstrate:

• A background and training within a leading global strategy consulting firm
• Experience in transformation/strategy in a comparable operational, customer-focused business (hospitality, media or retail sectors desirable)
• Ideally, some experience of operating in a charity or not-for-profit environment
• Experience working on change projects in organisations of similar size and complexity, including leading project workstreams
• Experience working with CEOs and senior leadership teams, with the gravitas and credibility to build relationships with and present to senior leaders.

Prior working knowledge of our art forms is not essential but a passion for the arts, the ability to immerse yourself in a new environment quickly and a commitment to the RBO's mission and values is.

To submit your application, please provide a supporting statement that outlines how your skills and experience match the essential criteria listed above. We recommend drafting your response in a separate document and then copying the final version into the application form. Please note that as part of our commitment to anonymised shortlisting, panels do not view CVs during the recruitment process. If you choose to upload your CV, our system will automatically pull information from your CV into our application form.

The Royal Ballet and Opera is one of the UK's leading arts organisations and our aim is to inspire imagination, ignite emotion and make the extraordinary for everyone. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion underpin all that we do. We want our people to be representative of the diversity in the UK. We understand the creativity and innovation that diversity can bring and strive to create an inclusive environment in which everyone can thrive.

We encourage applications from people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences and skills to join our teams. We particularly welcome applications from those who are from a global majority background and/or those who are disabled, as they are under-represented within our organisation.

We are a Disability Confident Employer, which means that we are actively working to ensure that candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions feel supported, engaged and able to fulfil their potential in the workplace. We will endeavour to offer an interview to candidates who tell us they wish to participate in the scheme and who demonstrate in their application that they meet the essential criteria for the role, though sometimes due to the volume of qualified candidates with declarations this is not possible.

The RBO is also committed to safeguarding and protecting all children, young people, and adults and we implement robust safer recruitment practices. Due to our safeguarding promise, certain roles will be subject to a DBS check before commencing employment with us, which will be indicated in the advertising.

A full job description can be found here.

For more information about working with the Royal Ballet and Opera, please review the info pack here .

For a list of potential reasonable adjustments, please review this guidance document.

Closing date for applications: Midnight, Monday 12th January 2026.

Applicants must have work authorisation for the UK. No agencies.