Value Creation Manager

An opportunity has arisen for a strategic and value-focused professional to join BPP (part of Lyceum Education Group) as a Value Creation Manager. You will deliver actionable insights and analysis that drive Group-wide transformation initiatives, supporting the adoption of AI, automation, and digital solutions to create measurable commercial and operational impact.

Responsibilities

• Provide data, analytics, and insights on ongoing transformation initiatives.
• Define and monitor success measures, KPIs, and benefits realisation for initiatives.
• Support Group-wide transformation planning by tracking interdependencies, risks, and outcomes across the portfolio.
• Highlight gaps, risks, or underperforming initiatives and provide recommendations to optimise value delivery.
• Own and maintain the EBITDA bridge for the transformation portfolio, linking initiative outcomes to Group financial performance.
• Validate hard versus soft savings and ensure benefits are evidenced, credible, and signed off at initiative level.
• Support gatekeeping of new initiatives into the portfolio, with a clear view of expected value.
• Ensure benefits and value measures align with the CFO and the private equity value creation model.
• Support the AI adoption strategy, identifying opportunities to leverage AI, automation, and analytics to improve operational efficiency and decision-making.
• Translate AI and digital insights into measurable impact on cost, productivity, student experience, and revenue growth.
• Track and report commercial and operational outcomes from AI-enabled initiatives.
• Develop dashboards, models, and analytical frameworks to track transformation outcomes and inform executive decision-making.
• Support cross-functional engagement to ensure initiatives deliver tangible value and comply with regulatory, operational, and customer requirements.

Requirements

• Strong analytical skills, capable of translating complex data into actionable business insights.
• Strong data analytics experience, including Excel, SQL, Python, Tableau, Power BI, or similar tools to analyse business performance and transformation impact.
• Experience developing financial/business cases, ROI analysis, and commercial impact assessments for transformation initiatives.
• Ability to quantify value creation, including cost-to-serve reduction, productivity gains, revenue uplift, and operational efficiency improvements.
• Experience of benefits realisation and EBITDA/value tracking, ideally in a private equity-backed or value creation plan environment.
• Comfort partnering with Finance/CFO teams on savings validation and benefit sign-off.
• Commercial acumen and ability to quantify business impact of initiatives.
• Effective communicator with experience presenting to executive leadership.
• Collaborative mindset, working across business, technology, and functional boundaries.
• Certifications in analytics, AI, or transformation management are advantageous.

Benefits

• Hybrid working available, splitting time between one of our centres and home.
• Generous annual leave entitlement of 30 days.
• Group Personal Pension Plan.
• Dedicated private healthcare and dental plans.
• Rewards package including retail discounts.
• Opportunity to study any of BPP’s courses for free, including professional qualifications or full degrees.