Business & Operations Manager

This job has now expired please search on the home page to find live IT Jobs.

Business & Operations Manager

Ordnance Survey has an opportunity available for a Business & Operations Manager to join the team based at our Innovation Hub in London. You will join us on a full time, permanent basis and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of circa £48,000 per annum plus excellent benefits - this is a fantastic opportunity to develop a rewarding career.

About us:

Geovation is a business unit of Ordnance Survey (OS), the national mapping agency for Great Britain and a world-leading geospatial data and technology organisation. OS data underpins billions of pounds of economic activity and plays a key role in delivering a range of technology advances - from autonomous vehicles and UAVs to digital building design and smart cities.

Geovation provides skills, space and funding for location-data and PropTech startups looking to make positive change happen. We’re based at a brand-new innovation centre in Clerkenwell, at the heart of London’s startup community.

Geovation supports an extended community of more than 1,200 entrepreneurs, investors, developers, academics, students and corporate innovators. Our accelerator programmes provide startups up to £20,000 in grant funding, business mentorship and coaching, access to data, experienced product development capabilities, geospatial expertise from Ordnance Survey and land and property insight from HM Land Registry. To date we’ve helped 65 technology start-ups raise £18M in external funding, creating hundreds of new jobs.

We offer fantastic benefits to our Business & Operations Manager:

- Salary - circa £48,000

- Competitive pension

- 37 hour working week with flexible working hours

- 25 days annual leave - (30 days after five years) bank holidays and an extra 3 over Christmas

- Training & Development

- Paid volunteer day

- Bike to Work scheme (with secure bike storage and excellent changing facilities)

- Free onsite parking

- Subsidised on-site staff restaurant

- On-site nursery

- Very generous staff benefits including over 500 discounts from national stores

- Wide variety of sports and social clubs

- Support for your health and wellbeing from eye care vouchers to health checks

About the role:

We are looking for a Business & Operations Manager to provide experienced operational leadership for Geovation’s growing team.

Reporting to the Head of Geovation, you will collaborate with the senior team to design and implement business strategies, operating plans and procedures that drive business performance and efficiency and ensure alignment with corporate strategies and plans.

You will also be required to:

- Manage day-to-day operations to ensure the business is appropriately resourced to achieve agreed goals and objectives, tracking progress against metrics and milestones including financial goals.

- Help to develop policies that promote and enable company culture and vision, encouraging the team to delivery to its full potential and supporting individual development.

- Represent Geovation at networking events and meetups and proactively engage with the extended Geovation community in person and on social media.

Skills and experience required to be our Business & Operations Manager:

You will have a proven track record as a business manager or other relevant role and/or BSc/Ba in Business Management or relevant field. You must be confident in preparing written collateral and in providing financial reports and analysis. As a senior manager, you will be experienced in setting objectives and supporting the personal development of your team.

You must also demonstrate your track record against the following essential criteria in your application:

- Strong business and financial acumen and good understanding of managing and monitoring business performance and metrics

- Excellent organisational and relationship management skills

- Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities

- Thorough understanding of business processes

- Experience in an accelerator or innovation field desirable

- Organized and detail oriented while not losing sight of the bigger picture

- Collaborative and positive attitude

Why not click ‘apply’ today? Don’t miss out on this opportunity to join the world’s leading map making and big data organisation as our Business & Operations

Manager.

Closing date: Monday 1st October 2018