Border To Coast Pensions Partnership | Chief Technology and Operations Officer (CTOO)

Chief Technology and Operations Officer (CTOO)

Border to Coast

Leeds (hybrid)

Innovation, expertise, scale and good governance – since our inception in 2018, Border to Coast has delivered the ambitions of pooling for our Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) Partner Funds. Responsible for managing or overseeing more than £52bn of assets and with 170 colleagues based at our offices in Leeds, today we are the largest asset manager outside London and Edinburgh, and we are embracing the opportunity to further improve long-term outcomes for LGPS funds, beneficiaries and taxpayers.

Pooling enables our Partner Funds to improve value for money through scale, expand access to investment opportunities, and strengthen governance to deliver cost-effective long-term returns on behalf of more than 1.1 million LGPS members, approximately 3,100 employers, and millions of taxpayers associated with our Partner Funds.

As a customer-owned, customer-focussed organisation, we’ve developed a reputation as long-term, responsible and innovative investors. We have also delivered over £70m in savings and are on track to deliver over £367m in our first decade of operation, delivering better value for our Partner Funds. Following the Mansion House reforms announced by the Chancellor, this is an exciting time to be part of pension pooling.

Chief Technology & Operations Officer

We are a young company entering the second phase of our strategy. Reporting to the CEO, we are looking for a Chief Technology & Operations Officer to join our Executive Team in a new role increasing the leadership capacity of the organisation.

You will play an active part in the Executive team, shaping and leading the delivery of our vision and transformation strategy across Technology, Change, Data and Operations. This is a unique opportunity to enable the growth, agility and development of the Company; whilst maintaining data and system resilience and implementing new technologies to improve information security, efficiency and customer experience. We want a CTOO who is a business leader alongside shaping and driving the operating model that underpins our future success.

We are a relatively small but complex business operating in a regulated environment. The organisation has aspects of scale-up and established FS company, public and private sector. The team utilises technology and administration partners, with an ambitious future strategic agenda enabled through the adoption of new technology and data capability.

Candidates will have the opportunity to operate in a PLC-like environment in terms of vision setting, functional remit breadth and regular interaction at Board level.

The successful candidate will demonstrate a balance of skills, behaviours and track record, including:

• Extensive experience leading Investment Technology, Data, Change, Outsourcing and Operations. Knowledge of Investment Operations is advantageous.
• Ability to play an active part with the Executive Team in shaping and driving the organisation’s strategic business goals.
• Ability to shape and execute a business aligned vision and strategy for technology and data that is well adopted and provides tangible business benefit.
• Sophisticated and well-developed people leadership skills, with the ability to engage, collaborate, coach and inspire.
• Ability to shape and sustain culture through formal interventions and informal influence.
• Bringing the best of the outside world into Border to Coast and working to influence the development of our industry.
• Experience and/or capability of partnering and influencing Board-level stakeholders and peers across the business.
• Motivated and interested in working within a small organisation with the need to both operate strategically and support a wide range of operational level activities.

For a confidential discussion, please contact Braidie Cole at Braidie.Cole@sandersonplc.com