Head of Group Management Support

Do you have experience of overseeing a significant management agenda and demonstrated strong leadership, leading to improved productivity and influence within your organisation? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

About the Team

This role sits across the Business and International Tax group. The Directors’ Private Secretaries and the wider Group Management Services (GMS) team sit at the heart of the group, supporting and advising Group Management Team (2 Directors and 8 Deputy Directors) to effectively manage the group and deliver on leadership, corporate and workforce strategy responsibilities. This G7 role is key to the functioning of the GMS team whose primary function is to ensure that the group is provided with excellent business and Personal Assistant support. The postholder will get significant exposure to SCS across the group.

This role, along with the Private Secretaries and GMS team, is a part of the Strategy Devolution and Cross-Cutting team (SDX). SDX works across the Business and International Tax Group to support and develop strategic and critical thinking about the business tax system as a whole; to lead on cross-cutting projects; and to act as a source of expertise and engagement on tax devolution policy, as well as supporting BIT’s corporate centre. With such an interesting, flexible and wide-ranging portfolio, we need a diverse set of skills to help us deliver. The team is friendly, welcoming and inclusive. We value diversity and people’s different perspectives, as informed by their background and experience, and build space for everyone to contribute.

About the Job

Key accountabilities include:

• Leadership and management of GMS – this involves direct line management of 2 people and overseeing a wider team of 6, providing support to maintain and strengthen performance and ongoing development within the team, as well as ensuring the GMS is factored into wider team and group-wide management strategy.
• Leading BIT’s business planning and workforce strategy – advising Directors on immediate resourcing decisions, monitoring and maintaining a strategy to meet medium-term business planning needs and leading long-term planning in the context of BIT’s SR settlement. The postholder will liaise regularly with SCS across the group and present regularly at the weekly Group Management Team meeting.
• Working with finance partners, Directors and DDs to deliver the group’s non-pay budget, including embedding good process to ensure targets are met in a harmonised way across all DD-led teams.
• Support the Directors and the group’s leadership team to deliver cross-cutting corporate responsibilities, including leading and coordinating the group’s diversity networks and ensuring the team provides good secretariat support for Group Management Team meetings and wider group communications.

About You

You will be an experienced leader and manager of a diverse team to deliver a quality service. You will exercise judgement and make decisions for the benefit of the group, including responding to issues and strategic situations changing at short notice. You will be able to manage a range of senior stakeholders – and influence upwards including bringing differing views into clear and cohesive decision points and advice on these accordingly.

Some of the Benefits our people love!

• 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month.
• Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours).
• Generous parental and adoption leave packages.
• Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28.97%.
• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances.
• A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity.

For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link. If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form.