Executive Business Manager

Our vision is for safe and effective nursing and midwifery practice across the four countries of the UK – regulated and supported by the NMC – a fit for the future organisation, with fairness and equity at the heart of everything we do. Our role is to protect the public and maintain confidence in the nursing and midwifery professions. As the largest independent regulator in Europe of more than 860,000 nursing and midwifery professionals, we have a crucial role in making this a reality. We do this by setting and promoting high education and professional standards for all future and registered nurses and midwives in the UK and nursing associates in England. We also ensure every nurse, midwife and nursing associate on our Register meets clear standards of conduct and practice which protects the public and the reputation of our professions. We have a duty to investigate concerns and to take steps to protect the public in the relatively rare instances where we need to limit or restrict a nurse, midwife or nursing associate’s right to practise. We are building a new NMC with integrity, fairness, respect, equity and effectiveness at its core. We are determined to improve and modernise our culture and ways of working. This will ensure that the public and professionals feel confident in our work.

About the team

We are currently recruiting this role on an initial 12 month contract. The Professional Regulation directorate plays a critical role in delivering the NMC’s core regulatory functions, ensuring that concerns about professionals on our register are managed effectively, fairly and in the public interest. At the centre of the directorate is the Executive Support Team, a collaborative unit that enables the directorate to operate effectively and deliver against its priorities through a strong governance, performance and risk framework. You’ll be joining a high performing and fast paced team that works closely with senior leaders, corporate and operational teams. With a focus on delivering high-quality outputs, improving processes and ensuring the directorate is able to run smoothly, with accurate and timely information to support decision‑making at every level.

Your role and impact

As Executive Business Manager, you’ll play a central role in coordinating and delivering the core business management activity that underpins the Professional Regulation directorate. Working closely with the Senior Executive Business Manager, you’ll ensure governance, planning, performance and risk processes are delivered effectively, with high quality outputs to support senior decision‑making, including producing Executive Board and Council papers. You’ll lead the coordination of governance activity; from commissioning inputs and tracking actions to producing clear, well‑structured papers and briefings. Alongside this, you’ll support business planning cycles, performance reporting and risk management processes, ensuring information is accurate, aligned with our directorate and corporate objectives and is delivered to tight deadlines. This is a highly collaborative role and you’ll be working across teams and functions to bring together complex information, maintain systems and logs and ensure directorate‑wide activity is aligned and delivered to standard. The role also line manages Executive Assistants who support the delivery of high‑quality executive support to our directorate leadership team and you will be contributing to a strong, values‑led team culture. This is a role with real influence – offering the opportunity to shape how our business management activity is delivered and strengthen processes and drive continuous improvement across a critical part of our organisation.

What you’ll bring

• Experience

• Working in a business management, executive support or operational coordination role within a complex organisation.
• Supporting governance, business planning, performance reporting or risk management processes.
• Working with senior stakeholders and coordinating inputs across multiple teams.

• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and competing priorities.
• Excellent written communication skills, with experience producing high‑quality reports, briefing and governance papers.
• Strong coordination skills, with the ability to manage processes, track actions and meet deadlines.
• Analytical capability, with confidence in collating and interpreting information to support decision making.

If you’re a highly organised, proactive professional who thrives in a fast‑paced environment and wants to play a key role in supporting senior leadership and organisational performance, we’d love to hear from you.

Benefits

• 30 days annual leave
• Enhanced Pension Contributions via our attractive Pension Scheme – with a basic 8% employer contribution as standard which increases up to 14% with optional added Employee Contributions
• Life Insurance – 4 x current salary
• Hybrid working
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
• 24 Hours Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Perkbox membership
• Subsidised restaurant in our Portland Place office
• Season ticket loans

Additional Information

The role you are applying for is a flexible role, and whilst you will be posted initially to a team, this may require movement between teams as the flow of work dictates. You will of course understand that this flexible approach enables us to provide the best possible service to our registrants and reach the outcomes to our cases quickly and within a reasonable timeframe. This will not change your terms and conditions and will be discussed with you prior to you taking up the post.

Hybrid Working Policy

We are currently working to a policy of office attendance for two days per week with the rest of the time working from home. Before submitting your application, please ensure you are able to commit to working in one of our office locations twice per week. If you are applying for a part‑time role, please pro‑rata office attendance based on the number of days you would be working.

Our Pay Policy

It is expected that staff new to the NMC will ordinarily be appointed to the bottom of the relevant pay band. However in exceptional circumstances, it may be possible to offer a salary above the bottom of the relevant pay band but we may request proof of current earnings. Please note that we offer an annual review of salaries and adopt a generous progressive pay approach. Further details of which are available on request. For our internal colleagues, you will be paid in accordance to our internal pay policy.

Reasonable adjustments

We will provide reasonable adjustments to support disabled candidates throughout the recruitment process. Please let us know if you need any additional support to enable you to make an application with us.

Screening and vetting

All of our roles are subject to pre‑employment checks. We are in the process of introducing a vetting policy, and it is possible that this role may become subject to DBS and further vetting checks in future.