Strategic Business Operations Manager for Global Innovation

6 days ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Access Partnership Full time

Transformative Opportunity at Access Partnership

We're tech optimists who believe in harnessing innovative technology to drive transformative change globally. Our pace of innovation accelerates as paradigm shifts occur across AI, healthcare, space, and climate.

Drawing on our specialist knowledge across all areas of digital technology, we advise and drive every step of the journey; from setting strategy to designing policy, achieving and maintaining compliance, and measuring success.

We join the dots to reduce risks and optimise outcomes, fuelling progress competitively, responsibly, and sustainably.

The Team:

You will report directly to our Chief People Officer overseeing our People and Operations functions. Our diverse, global teams utilise deep subject-matter expertise to assist clients navigate complex regulatory challenges and optimise technology policies, to fuel growth. Sometimes working behind the scenes, sometimes front-and-centre of a company-wide initiative, they are always implementing strategies that drive key business successes.

**Your Key Responsibilities:**

  • Operational Management: Lead and oversee our PMO team, ensuring they support the strategic objectives of our company with streamlined and efficient processes and workflows.
  • Resource Management: Oversee resource planning, allocation, and utilisation to maximise operational efficiency. Ensure that projects are staffed appropriately and that resources are deployed effectively to meet client and company objectives.
  • Process Design: Design and optimise business processes to enhance efficiency, productivity, and quality.
  • Transformation Leadership: Lead transformation projects, guiding stakeholders through the process of organisational change. Be a leading voice in change management initiatives, working collaboratively across the business to ensure initiatives are embedded successfully.

**What You'll Need:**

  • Operational management experience within a professional services, consulting or digital agency environment.
  • Experience leading change and transformation programmes from design through implementation and BAU, in particular, supporting a business, your team and colleagues through the change management process.
  • Experience overseeing strategic workforce planning, skills mapping and project resourcing to ensure we have the best people on projects.
  • Adept at using relevant data and metrics to report to internal stakeholders and our leadership team on key indicators such as utilisation, capacity and profitability.
  • An ability to collaborate effectively with sales and growth stakeholders to align on new business opportunity scoping and provisional staffing.

We estimate the salary for this role to be around $120,000 - $150,000 per annum, depending on location and experience.

We boast a collaborative working environment, social events and a robust support system. We are committed to providing training and professional development for all colleagues.



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