Be the driving force behind our evolution.
At Acis, we're ambitious about the future and passionate about creating lasting impact for our customers and communities. As our Evolution Programme Business Partner, you'll lead a portfolio of transformational projects that shape how we grow, innovate and deliver social value. Working across the organisation you'll turn bold ideas into reality, bringing people together, navigating complexity and ensuring projects deliver real, measurable outcomes. If you thrive on challenge, love building relationships, and have a talent for turning strategy into action this is your opportunity to help shape the future of our organisation and the communities we serve.
As an Evolution Programme Business Partner, a typical day might include:
Appraising, establishing and implementing innovative programme and change management tools that unlock and drive forward the delivery of projects that achieve group objectives
Being responsible for a programme of large scale, evolutionary projects that support our strategic direction, help us to achieve our corporate ambitions and deliver on our wider social value aspirations
Driving end-to-end delivery across multiple projects, ensuring efficient, effective delivery, whilst managing project interdependencies and priorities, across all our business units. Ensuring value for money and wider impact at all times.
Future planning – ensuring the capacity and capability of the organisation to deliver projects with competing priorities – and working with the senior management team to agree this.
developing feasibility and business cases and ensuring governance of project documentation to maintain strategic oversight, delivery assurance, and constant communication at all times.
Working across a wide section of internal colleagues and external partners to ensure specialist input where its needed, cross-organisational buy in and appropriate sign-off when required – leading the project steering board group wide to ensure joined up thinking and innovation at all times.
ensuring projects are delivered on time, to budget and the quality anticipated.
playing a huge part in change management, working with colleagues to ensure projects and their impact is evidenced and communicated across the group and beyond.
Reporting and presenting on progress, challenges and risks to our key stakeholders, executive team and our board
constantly risk assessing, being solution focused and target driven. You will understand each project, the 'why' and the strategic fit. The 'how' we will leave down to you to work with the teams to deliver it.
Reviewing and evaluating project completions and success – focusing on their impact and the wider strategic impact for our customers and communities.
Some of the experience/skills we need to consider you:
Experience of managing cross-cutting programmes and projects, and implementing programme management tools.
Your a strong leader, an effective communicator and a great relationship builder. You will know how to engage and motivate people around you to get the job done
Successful track record of delivering a programme which requires working effectively with a diverse range of stakeholders and/or organisations to deliver shared goals Your solution focused and target driven, keeping your eye on the goal at all times
you will have a strong understanding of project management principles and methodologies
managing project budgets and risks are natural to you – and you can talk numbers with finance as much as words with marketing
strong skills in writing and presenting – with experience of business case and feasibility preparation, report writing, and presenting to senior teams
You have great business acumen, understanding the business context and be able to align the programme with our strategic goals
You will have a proven track record of managing large scale projects, and that they were delivered on time and to budget
You will never compromise quality, working hard to ensure high standards of work in everything you do
You'll be passionate about making a difference. Our projects deliver impact in our communities each and every day. We want to deliver the best we can for our customers and you will be a key part in helping us to achieve this
Your able to think on your feet, finding solutions to challenging problems as they crop up
You'll have an eye for detail, making sure nothing falls through the gaps and we maximise every efficiency and opportunity
What will make you stand out from the crowd:
Experience of successfully operating in a complex organisational or political environment.
A general understanding of issues and policy relating to communities
Experience of working on government funded projects and the complexities this can bring
An interest or experience in impact measurement at a community and national level
Strong external stakeholder management
Experience in developing community and customer engagement activities – and co-designing projects and services with those who will use them
Being part of the Acis team, you'll get:
Generous holiday entitlement – 25 days annual leave rising by 1 per year to a max of 30 plus
Evolution Programme Business Partner in Burton upon Trent employer: Acis Group
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