Business Manager (Workforce Planning)
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| Job Type | Freelance/Contract |
| Location | Birmingham OR London (Euston) with Hybrid Working |
| Area | London, UKMidlands, UK |
| Sector | High Speed Rail |
| Salary | £400 - £450 A Day INSIDE IR35 |
| Start Date | |
| Advertiser | Charlton Recruitment |
| Telephone | 07881022741 |
| Job Ref | HS20068 |
| Job Views | 604 |
- Description
- Business Manager is required for 10-month interim contract working within the Client Organisation responsible for the New High-Speed Rail project in the UK this is a multi-billion-pound high-speed railway to directly link the city centres of: London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester.
As a Business Manager at HS2 you’ll support the Senior Business Manager to track Directorate performance against strategy & business plans to enable the Directorate to achieve its objectives. The key role of the business Manager is workforce planning, forecast and budget directorate workforce spend and act as the first point of contact for hiring managers and then developing a business case and presenting this to the Recruitment Panel. Managing the workforce process known as RAP is the key objective of this role, liaising with HR, Finance & Hiring managers.
The role will also include support management of projects that enable delivery of key business programmes which may vary on a Directorate basis, support / help deliver change programme.
Must Have’s for the Role
- Experience working for public sector or publicly funded arm’s length body – understand assurance, governance and developing business cases.
- Prepared business cases – forecasts and budgets ideally for workforce planning although would consider other operations / change programme where proposals & business cases are formed.
- Worked in similar Business Manager support Operations role.
- Experience working in complex matrix organisations with Superb stakeholder management skills.
Working Situation – Hybrid
Role is office based from Snowhill, Birmingham or Euston, London coupled with Hybrid working – expectation is to work 2 days a week either from Birmingham or London and the rest of the time working from home. Overall, this is a very flexible modern employer who cares about delivery not where you deliver from, however, if you wish to be based front the office more you can.
Salary £400 – 450 a day INSIDE IR35
Duties & Responsibilities
· Supporting the Senior Business Manager to develop and collate the Directorate plan, based on leadership established strategic priorities, supporting the monitoring and tracking of Directorate performance from a financial, project and people perspective.
· Supporting the Senior Business Manager and other support functions to track progress and report against various metrics for the Directorate e.g. business plan, workforce planning.
· Supporting the Senior Business Manager to manage governance processes for the Directorate, meeting minutes and actions, providing updates and milestone tracking against any actions that fall outside of corporate governance process e.g. Safety & Assurance.
· Supporting HR with monitoring progress against workforce plan, including managing input to the RAP process on behalf of the Director (Noting that the responsibility for submitting requests into the RAP process still sits with the Line Manager).
· Support defined components or small ad-hoc internal projects in line with centrally defined processes and frameworks.
· Support the business with managing the Directorate/Functional operating model (e.g. processes, policies, data), identifying where there enabling changes/updates may be required in relation to the broader Directorate operating model changes, and supporting leadership to implement these.
· Work with Procurement & Commercial to support the management of various contracts across the Directorate (Note that accountability for the procurement and contract management of third party supplier contracts still sits with Procurement & Commercial however the Business Manager may assist with the administration of small, ad hoc or Directorate level procurements).
· Support the Senior Business Manager to manage Directorate reporting, working with colleagues from PMO and to integrate reporting with the overall corporate planning and programme reporting cycle.
· Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
Candidate Specification
Ideally you will have experience as Business Manager or similar operations role working for a public sector organisation or arm’s length body, where you have developed business cases for workforce planning or other organisation initiatives or change programmes. You will have experience producing forecasts and budgets for the business cases alongside excellent stakeholder management skills.
Skills:
· Ability to analyse and distil multiple pieces of potentially complex information and present this clearly in written materials.
· Stakeholder management and facilitation skills.
Knowledge:
· Understanding of HR data, processes and reporting – workforce planning.
· Understanding of Finance data, processes and reporting – forecasts & busgets
Type of Experience:
· Experience of application of effective governance frameworks in a government or public funded arm’s length body.
· Project/business management experience.
· Developing business cases, forecasting and budgeting ideally for workforce planning or other organisation initiatives or change programmes
The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect
