Business Management Lead

This position sits within the Commercial, Vaccines and Countermeasures Delivery (CVCD) Operations team, the team that are at the heart of ensuring that the CVCD Directorate operates to the best of its ability. There is a 'dotted line' to the Commercial Delivery teams due to the integral part the team play in enabling with planning, assurance and reporting process and practice.

• Providing leadership and direction across multiple teams to enable fulfilment of Commercial Regulatory requirements and Government Commercial Functional Standards.
• Undertaking concise packages of delivery work which may consist of undertaking analysis, facilitating or leading solution design, co-ordinating operational delivery or creating handover materials.
• Building collaborative relationships with strategic and operational stakeholders, within the Directorate, Wider UKHSA and across Government
• Delivering insight, information and recommendations to drive performance and decision making at the appropriate level within the organisation.
• Understanding the future landscape, being alert to risks and opportunities and providing thought leadership to prepare and respond.
• Line management of a small team

We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality of opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.

UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.

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The G7 Business Management Lead will develop and lead the Commercial Business Management Team within CVCD. This team is critical in enabling our Commercial Delivery teams to fulfil their obligations against Government Commercial Functional Standards and Regulatory requirements leading important external relationships with DHSC and Cabinet Office to enhance UKHSAs reputation across Whitehall and also Industry.

The postholder will have responsibility for significant operational and complex policy areas working across multi-disciplinary teams. They will provide leadership and direction for projects including planning, monitoring and controlling activities whilst providing expert advice and guidance, support, insight and decisions on performance to senior managers across and out with the organisation. These decisions have a far-reaching impact for UKHSA, the reputation of the Government Commercial Function and across the industries that we rely on to meet our organisational objectives.

They will have the autonomy to drive this area of work and will be required to work independently on day-to-day issues providing a strategic view on operational delivery and compliance and contribute significantly to the achievement of the Directorate achieving its strategic priorities and business objectives.

They will build and maintain constructive relations across the organisation to influence, understand and respond to the needs from the directorate and external organisations to meet statutory and regulatory obligations.

They are responsible for leading and delivering recommendations and decisions that will impact the directorate and influence across the health family and wider government commercial teams.

With a forthcoming review of operating model this role will lead the new directorate governance portfolio working closely with senior internal and external stakeholders, ensuring operational performance is measured and tracked, facilitating strategic decisions which the impact of will be felt throughout UKHSA and with our suppliers and citizens.

This role involves the line management of a small team.

Please see the job description for the full duties and responsibilities.

• A good understanding of working in the public sector and a sound working knowledge and experience of working in a commercial environment or equivalent experience.
• Ability to anticipate impacts on work based on the wider landscape and environment are key in addition to impacting change proposals.
• Significant leadership, communicating and influencing skills, with the ability to guide others to think and act differently
• Strong skills and experience in resource management, planning, scheduling, risk and issue management in complex environment.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret and convey large, complex and often incomplete data.
• Demonstrable in-depth knowledge and experience in project management methodology and practice (e.g. PRINCE 2 Practitioner, APM Practitioner)

Selection Process Details:

This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours and experience.

Stage 1: Application & Sift

You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on the listed essential criteria, and this will be in the form of a:

• Application form (Employer/ Activity history section on the application)
• 750 word Statement of Suitability.

This should outline how your skills, experience, and knowledge, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential criteria.

Please note you will not be able to upload your CV. You must complete the application form in as much detail as possible. Please do not email us your CV.

The Application form and Statement of Suitability will be marked together.

Longlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will longlist into 3 piles of:

• Meets all essential criteria
• Meets some essential criteria

Please note, only those meeting all essential criteria will be taken through to shortlisting.

Shortlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will shortlist on:

• Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret and convey large, complex and often incomplete data.

Desirable criteria may be used in the event of a large number of applications / large amount of successful candidates.

If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview and assessment.

Please do not exceed 750 words. We will not consider any words over and above this number.

Feedback will not be provided at this stage.

Stage 2: Interview

You will be invited to a remote interview.

Behaviours and experience will be tested at interview.

The Behaviours tested during the interview stage will be:

• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Delivering at Pace

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Location

This role is being offered as hybrid working based at any of our Core HQs. We offer great flexible working opportunities at UKHSA and operate using a hybrid working model where business needs allow. This provides us with greater flexibility about how and where we work, to get the best from our workforce. As a hybrid worker, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of your contractual working hours (approximately 3 days a week pro rata, averaged over a month) working at one of UKHSA's core HQs (Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool or London).

Our core HQ offices are modern and newly refurbished with excellent city centre transport link and benefit from benefit from co-location with other government departments such as the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC).

Security Clearance Level Requirement

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is Basic Personnel Security Standard.

• Application Form and Statement of Suitability

• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Delivering at Pace

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£54,416 to £68,344 a yearper annum, pro rata

Permanent

Full-time,Part-time,Job share,Flexible working