Head of Business Design & Partnering

Head of Business Design and Partnering

• Location: Remote, with occasional travel to our Bradford and London offices
• Contract: Permanent, Full-time, 37.5 hours per week
• Salary: £80,000 per annum

Lead the future of business design at Anchor

We're looking for an experienced and influential leader to join Anchor as our Head of Business Design & Partnering. This is a pivotal role responsible for shaping how change is designed across the organisation, ensuring strategic priorities are translated into effective operating models, services and business outcomes. You'll work closely with senior leaders to influence decision-making, set design standards and lead a high-performing Business Design function.

What you'll be doing

• Leading Anchor's Business Design function, providing enterprise-wide leadership for business design, service design and business architecture.
• Partnering with Directors and Executive Sponsors to shape change initiatives, define future operating models and ensure successful organisational outcomes.
• Establishing and maintaining design governance, standards and assurance across major transformation programmes.
• Driving alignment across business change activity, ensuring solutions are coherent, compliant and operationally viable.
• Leading, coaching and developing a team of Business Design Partners and Business Design Analysts to build capability and deliver organisational priorities.

What we're looking for

• Significant senior leadership experience within Business Design, Service Design, Business Architecture or a related strategic change discipline.
• Proven experience working with Executive teams and senior stakeholders, influencing strategic decisions and providing constructive challenge.
• Strong systems thinking with the ability to translate strategy into practical operating and service models.
• Experience of design governance, assurance and leading enterprise-wide change initiatives.
• Experience within housing, health, care or another complex regulated environment would be advantageous.

Right to Work in the UK

Proof of the right to work in the UK will be required from the successful candidate in accordance with UK Home Office requirements before any offer of employment can be confirmed.

Where permission to work in the UK is required, applicants will need to hold and maintain the appropriate immigration status or visa for the duration of their employment.

Closing Date

The closing date for applications is 11th October. First stage interviews are expected to take place week commencing 19th October.

Anchor – a great place to work

Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.

Our values

Every one of us can make a difference to our residents and play a part in shaping homes and services around their needs.

Our Anchor values of being Accountable, Respectful, Courageous and Honest apply to us all, whether you manage colleagues as part of your role or not.

Displaying our values can influence those around us to do the same. We can all be leaders at Anchor and should all be driven by the same customer ethos. Our Anchor Leadership Framework helps align these values with the skills and behaviours we demonstrate.

A rewarding environment

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.

Health & happiness

• Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
• Mental health support
• Flexible working options
• Access to online GP appointments

Finance

• Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
• Quick and easy pension transfer service
• Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
• Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more
• Free Blue Light Card

Career

• Ongoing personal and professional development programme
• Leadership Pathways online learning resources
• Career progression and promotion opportunities

To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated being well website Please follow the link or copy and paste https://anchorbeingwell.co.uk/ into your browser

Celebrating diversity, celebrating you

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.

We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members. We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a Gold Standard Inclusive Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, HouseProud Pledge and Age Friendly Employer Pledge schemes.