Assistant Business Manager

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Job Description

Location London

Salary Base salary: £38850pa to c.£45700pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As an Assistant 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 role will also include support management of projects that enable delivery of key business programmes which may vary on a Directorate basis. HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities

About the role:

• 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.
• 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.

About You:

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.
• Understanding of Finance data, processes and reporting.

Type of Experience:

• Experience of application of effective governance frameworks in a government or corporate organisation.
• Project management experience.
• The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect.

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect

It is expected that you will 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.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

About Us

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK's new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain's major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.