Head of Business Management

Can you work collaboratively with colleagues at all levels and across organisations?

Do you have sound judgement, flexibility and a strong delivery mindset?

Are you assertive, confident and enthusiastic?

If so, wed love to hear from you!

DfT is a high-profile department at the heart of UK government. We work with agencies and partners to support the transport network that helps businesses and gets people and goods travelling around the country. We plan and invest to make journeys better.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the Kings birthday.
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

Find out more about what it's like working at DfTc

The Head of Business Management will lead a proactive, customer focused business support function for the directorate, providing robust oversight across programme and performance management, risk and milestone tracking, finance and workforce planning, HR support, diary management and administrative services, while driving continuous improvement.

Reporting to the Deputy Director, the role holder will play a central role in enabling the Senior Management Team to operate effectively in a high tempo environment. Leading the Business Management team and directly task managing a Personal Assistant, the post holder will drive high performance and quality outcomes across both their own team and the wider Directorate, using effective systems, collaboration and communication. The role will require strong judgement and the ability to work confidently across the Directorate, Corporate Delivery Group and wider department to support timely, well governed business delivery.

This role is expected to be agile and able to respond to Directorate priorities. As such you may be asked to undertake different duties as required.

Your responsibilities will include, but arent limited to:

• Lead a high-performing Business Management function
• Drive effective governance, performance reporting and decision-making across delivery, risk, finance and workforce planning
• Own the Directorates business planning and performance framework
• Lead budget and financial management processes

For further information on the role, please read the role profile which is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:

• Able to demonstrate the ability to oversee a programme of work, requiring you to collaborate with others to deliver against stretching targets, under challenging circumstances.
• Excellent Stakeholder engagement and management with the ability to build successful and professional working relationships with varied and complex stakeholders.
• A record of managing and constantly improving processes for positive change with the ability to work flexibly to the need of the directorate.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbally and in writing, including the ability to lead meetings and provide challenge where appropriate.

Additional Information

Operational Delivery Profession (ODP) is the largest and most diverse professional community across the Civil Service. Many of us will have an association with several professional communities or specialisms, ODP applies to all public facing roles / or a role that is primarily aligned to supporting the work of those with public facing roles. All critical to the delivery of UK public services.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkR_okX2T1U

Working hours, office attendance and travel requirements

Full time roles consist of 37 hours per week.

Whilst we welcome applications from those looking to work with us on a part time basis, there is a business requirement for the successful candidate to be able to work at least 35 hours per week.

This role is suitable for hybrid working, which is a non-contractual arrangement where a combination of workplace and home-based working can be accommodated subject to business requirements.

The expectation at present is a minimum of 60% of your working time a month will be spent at either your designated workplace (one of the locations cited in the advert) or, when required for business reasons, in another office/work location/visiting stakeholders. Your designated workplace will be your contractual place of work. There may be occasions where you are required to attend above the minimum expectation.

Occasional travel to other offices will be required, which may involve overnight stays.

If you have a question about hybrid working, part time/job share hours, flexible working, travelling for work, or require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Vacancy Holder during the recruitment process to avoid possible disappointment later in the process should your working arrangements not be compatible with the requirements of the role (see below for contact details).

Visa Sponsorship

DfTc does not offer Visa Sponsorship for this role.