Governance and Enablement Lead
Job ID: 010260
Location: Leeds, UK, LS1 8EQ
Job type: Permanent - Full Time
Salary: Up to £65,000 Dependent upon Experience + Bonus & Benefits
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Governance & Enablement Lead
Play a pivotal role in embedding effective governance within Yorkshire Building Society. This is a high-impact role combining hands-on delivery engagement, governance leadership and decision-support capability, with strong exposure to senior stakeholders. You’ll enable confident, timely decision-making while driving consistency, control and quality across delivery.
About the role
The Governance & Enablement Lead is accountable for embedding and operating the change delivery governance framework within a portfolio, ensuring delivery is controlled, compliant and supported by high-quality insight.
- Own and embed the enterprise change governance framework across your assigned portfolio, ensuring consistent application of standards, controls and delegated authority, and providing assurance to senior stakeholders on governance effectiveness.
- Lead governance forums and reporting to enable effective decision-making, including designing and operating Steering Committees, producing high-quality materials and articulating clear options, risks and trade-offs.
- Partner across delivery, reporting and risk functions to ensure joined-up governance, strong control adherence and consistent, high-quality insight across milestones, risks, issues, dependencies and financials.
About you
You are a highly credible governance and delivery professional, with strong experience operating in complex change environments and a focus on enabling effective, controlled delivery through high-quality governance and insight.
- Proven experience operating portfolio-level governance and reporting within a complex delivery environment, with strong understanding of frameworks, controls and assurance in practice.
- Strong technical capability in governance forums, reporting, dashboards and decision-support material, with the ability to translate complex delivery data into clear, actionable insight.
- Proven ability to influence and coach delivery teams and senior stakeholders in a regulated environment, embedding governance standards and enabling effective, timely decision-making.
About Our Benefits
Everyone’s different. That’s why we offer a wide range of benefits and rewards that we think you’ll love – whatever’s important to you, and whatever stage of life you’re at. Such as…
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Our pension scheme (where you can get up to 11% from us)
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On target bonus of 7% (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%)
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Access to brilliant health benefits
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Life assurance at 6 times your salary
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25 days’ holiday (and the option to buy more)
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Cycle to work or an interest-free loan for an annual ticket
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Wellbeing resources and tools
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Retail and Leisure discounts
Learning & Development
Everyone can build a career path they love here. And that’s because we offer a wide range of programmes, opportunities and more to help you learn, grow, and develop – and reach your full potential.
These include...
- Personal Growth Toolkits - a range of materials that help you discover your strengths, identify your goals, and your next steps.
- Secondment and Stretch opportunities – helping you gain experience in different areas of our business and new ways of working.
- Learning Champion Network – opportunities to work outside of your immediate area and build new skills.
- Apprenticeships and Professional Qualifications – a range of brilliant apprenticeships and programmes available to everyone.
- REACH Diverse Leadership Programme – helping our Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse leaders progress into senior leadership roles.
Our Colleague Networks & Groups
Our Vision is to be a leading organisation that embraces diversity, champions equity, and creates an inclusive environment where all individuals regardless of their background or identity feel valued, empowered and supported.
Our Colleague Networks and Groups are designed to amplify the voices of diverse groups and provide a structured route to effect real change. They provide a safe space and use colleague feedback to support the progression of our DEI Strategy. Our eight networks and groups are:
Community and Charity
Ever since we started back in 1864, we’ve had a clear purpose – to do some good in our communities through helping people keep their savings safe. And helping everyone have a place to call home. Today, that purpose is still a huge part of who we are. And every one of our colleagues helps that happen.
We’re committed to volunteering our time, resources, skills and knowledge – more than 50% of colleagues contribute to thousands of volunteer hours every year. And our Charitable Foundation has now donated over £9 million to charities and good causes across the country.
Hear from some of our people about what working at Yorkshire Building Society is like, and what it means for them…
Our ways of working
We know there’s no single right way of working that fits everyone. That’s why we’re not trying to find one. Instead, we’re doing everything we can to make sure that when we’re working flexibly, together and apart, we’re working at our best. And help our colleagues get the most out of work, and take care of themselves, wherever they’re working.
Whether you’re in an office-based team or your team is spread across the country, you’ll have lots of chances to get together with your colleagues for those Moments that Matter – which are all about building wonderful relationships and strong bonds with your colleagues.
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