Senior Business Manager - London

Charity People have partnered with a health charity looking to recruit their very first Senior Business Manager. This is an exciting time for you to join and lead their core corporate functions. Reporting directly to the CFO, you'll oversee multiple critical portfolios - Estates & Facilities, Health & Safety, IT, Corporate Governance, and Data & Performance, ensuring they are safe, compliant, and delivering high-quality support to the organisation.

This is a pivotal leadership role for someone who thrives in a varied, fast-paced environment and is motivated by delivering continuous improvement across people, systems, and infrastructure.

Hybrid: 3 days a week in London close to Victoria and 2 days from home

Salary: £50,150 per annum

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership across Estates & Facilities, IT, Health & Safety, Corporate Governance, and Data & Performance, ensuring they align with organisational priorities.
• Lead business planning, risk management, and performance reporting, acting as a key advisor to the CFO and senior leadership team.
• Ensure safe, compliant, and effective estates and facilities operations, managing contractors, service providers, and multi-site coordination.
• Oversee Health & Safety compliance, strengthening audits, incident reporting, risk assessments, and organisational safeguarding.
• Drive corporate governance and data excellence, improving reporting capability, data quality, GDPR compliance, and insight generation.
• Lead, develop, and motivate high-performing teams, fostering a positive, collaborative culture across corporate services.

Person Specification

• Significant senior-level experience in business management or corporate services, including leading multidisciplinary portfolios.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Proven experience managing people, contractors, and high-performance teams, with a proactive and collaborative style.
• Excellent strategic thinking, able to balance long-term vision with hands-on operational delivery in a complex environment.
• Robust understanding of governance, compliance, risk frameworks and data protection, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Role closing on 18th February, 2026. First stage interview via MSTeams 23rd February, 2026. Second stage interview in person w/c 2nd March, 2026.

If this is a role you can do and would like to make an impact and add value, then please apply with your CV.

Charity People is a forward-thinking, inclusive organisation that actively and deliberately promotes equity, diversity and inclusion. We know organisations thrive when inclusion is at the forefront. We evidence our commitment by matching charity needs with the skills and experience of candidates irrespective of background e.g. age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we believe that greater diversity leads to greater results for the charities we work with.