Director of Business Management and Performance

Job description

Overview

The Director, BM&P will have responsibility for converting ExCo's strategic direction into a resourced, budgeted and relevant business plan. They will ensure all business activity is delivered, governed, monitored and reported on to the highest standard, ensuring that benefits are realised by the membership and the wider industry as swiftly and efficiently as possible.

Responsibilities

• Market intelligence. Support RSSB's ExCo with business insights by drawing in market intelligence from the marketing team, technical areas and from Future Lab which will lead to the development of products and portfolio of services for our members and long-term growth opportunities.
• Business planning. Responsible and accountable for the end-to-end business planning process; facilitating the formulation of strategic direction from ExCo and drafting solutions with sponsors to meet ExCo's intent. Interacting through consultation with members and the wider rail sector on the efficacy of the plan and adjusting it to reactive calls as necessary. This will involve establishing trusted relationships with teams and stakeholders and interaction with sponsors, the membership and the industry and developing a business plan which outlines commitments that is satisfactorily resource profiled.
• Engage with Finance to coordinate the budgeting and re-forecasting of the business plan throughout the year.
• Resourcing. Collaborate with teams and stakeholders to ensure appropriate resource is applied to the business plan; to apply the business's prioritisation policy and recommend mitigations to alleviate resource constraints and review reactive and commercial opportunities.
• Monitor the delivery of the business plan, leading to swift and effective implementation of our products and services in close collaboration with the marketing team. Develop mitigations to remedy areas that are falling behind and ensuring commitments are delivered and implemented by the recipients.
• Internal governance. Apply and maintain compliance with internal governance processes in a proportionate and systematic way. To respond to internal and external audit governance recommendations, creating, amending or disposing of processes as required. Overall aim being to maintain probity and propriety.
• Benefits tracking. Track benefits and collate results in coordination with marketing account holders in order to promote the work of RSSB, underscoring the continued relevance of our work to the sector.
• Corporate Risk. Assess and monitor risk across the business plan and coordinate appropriate responses to fluctuations in the risk profile with the Risk and Assurance Lead.
• Responsible for all reporting within the business. This includes reports to the main board, board sub-committees, ExCo, RSSB Investment Committee (RIC), Strategic Delivery Group (SDG) and COG

Qualifications

• An inspiring and influential leader with demonstrable ability to successfully influence outcomes through the application of interpersonal skills and to build credibility at board and ExCo level.
• Proven experience and expertise in business planning and strategy development.
• Detailed understanding of the principles of business performance, their application and effective business or financial analytical skills.
• A natural collaborative style and approach with the ability to build positive and highly productive working relationships with multiple senior stakeholders.
• Proven experience of internal stakeholder engagement, including at senior executive levels.
• Effective people management and development experience combined with coaching and motivational capabilities.
• Demonstrable experience of having led substantive change and project management approach.
• An ability to communicate clearly, articulately and constructively with a wide range of stakeholders, including the RSSB membership.
• Evidence of inculcating a strong ethos of continuous improvement within business processes.
• Demonstrates alignment to RSSB's values and vision for 'a Better, Safer Railway'

Early applications are encouraged, as we may close this vacancy before the advertised deadline if sufficient numbers of applications are received.