Strategic Business Operations Lead

Ministry of Justice; Basildon; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 25 days + 5 in first year

LGPS pension

Training & development

Job summary

The Ministry of Justice is seeking a Business Manager to operate across multiple functional areas and support the senior leadership team in delivering effective service. The post involves interfacing with internal and external stakeholders, managing budgets and procurement, and ensuring compliance with health and safety policies.

Hybrid working arrangements are offered; the role focuses on strategic oversight, policy understanding, and coordinating across regional teams.

Qualifications

• Experience managing workload of senior executives and extensive stakeholder engagement.
• Experience using Microsoft Office programmes to present information and data and reviewing outputs for quality.

Responsibilities

• Directly line manage, and provide secondary line management for staff to support good practice and personal development.
• Monitor and deliver procedures relating to human resources, equalities and inclusion, staff performance management, and learning and development.
• Oversee and maintain robust administrative processes to gather, monitor and synthesise business performance data to support staff development and service improvement, and support preparation for audits and inspections.
• Maintain knowledge of and assist with the review and improvement of a range of organisational policies and local procedures.
• Adhere to financial compliance policies including monitoring the function’s budgets and authorization of some expenditures.
• Complete the workforce planning tool to support resource and workforce management and regional recruitment activities.
• Build relationships with teams across the business and external stakeholders as a Probation Service Representative, including planning engagement events.
• Manage facilities portfolio for designated area, complete health and safety risk assessments, and ensure compliance with policies and security requirements.
• Respond to changing business needs and complete ad-hoc tasks to meet deadlines.
• Lead development of pilot initiatives and assist with emerging business issues.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Executive workload management

Financial management

Education

NVQ Level 4 in Business Administration

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

The Ministry of Justice is seeking a Business Manager to operate across multiple functional areas and support the senior leadership team in delivering effective service. The post involves interfacing with internal and external stakeholders, managing budgets and procurement, and ensuring compliance with health and safety policies.

Hybrid working arrangements are offered; the role focuses on strategic oversight, policy understanding, and coordinating across regional teams.