Business Development Manager

Business Change Programme Manager

Full Time - 35 hours per week (working hours)

Circa Starting Salary: £40K

Based at our HQ near Stoneleigh, Warwickshire (Agile working arrangments available)

The British Horse Society is the nation’s largest equine charity with a passion for horses that is backed by knowledge and expertise. The BHS represents and provides a range of services for horse riders, horse owners, enthusiasts and professionals.

Our Home Team within the Society is made up of professionals who bring together a variety of experiences, backgrounds and perspectives. We celebrate the diversity of our people and place a high value on creating an environment where everyone can bring their whole self to work. Many of our Home Team members work flexibly; we believe in giving our employees autonomy to decide where, when and how they work within a set of principles agreed within the team.

We are looking for a suitably experienced Programme and Project Manager, who has been actively involved with the delivery of successful programmes of change within multi-faceted organisations. This is in order to manage the delivery and roll-out of a new brand proposition to internal and external stakeholders. This piece of work will include cultural and organisational transformation for employees, volunteers and the wider stakeholder group of assessors, inspectors and our other external partners.

Key skills needed for this exciting role:

·         Prince2 Practitioner with substantial experience in leading and delivering projects

·         Experience of managing programmes and projects where change management has been either the sole or a significant objective

·         Exceptional interpersonal and written communication skills

·         An ability to speak confidently and persuasively at senior level and inspire confidence with a wide variety of audiences

·         Experience of stakeholder management in complex organisational structures

·         You will have exceptional organisational and time management skills and be able to successfully prioritise the important versus the urgent

·         You will be a problem solver and a strategic thinker, able to juggle competing demands and make timely, evidence-based decisions

·         You will be a good listener and will be able to manage conflict, should it arise

So, you’re interested? Here’s some more information about the role….

The successful candidate will work alongside a change management specialist, as well as the brand team supplying the programme, and will manage a brand stakeholder plan, ensuring the right people are involved, dependencies are managed, teams are engaged with, and resources aligned appropriately to tasks and activities. They will ensure that planning for critical timelines is accurate and resilient in the face of change or adversity. Programme and project governance, including budget management, resource management, reporting on progress to relevant groups and delivering both internal and external launches are core requirements. The ability to produce results capable of achieving the benefits defined in business cases to agreed quality and timescales is a given.

What will you get in return?

·         Annual Leave: 26 days + plus bank holidays (increasing to 28 days after 3 years’ service)

·         Pension: Automatic entry at 4% into our scheme after 3-month deferral period, contributions matched up to 5%

·         Health Benefits: health (income protection) insurance,health cash plan, life assurance at 4 x salary, yearly flu jab.

·         Wellbeing Support: ‘Everymind at Work’ mental health and wellbeing app and quarterly webinars, opportunities to participate in range of engagement activities such as our book and gardening clubs, ‘Put the Kettle On’ informal virtual chats and our annual Funuary activities!

·         Training and Development: Access to a range of formal and informal development opportunities, including BHS Wise (our e-learning platform), our ‘A Day in Your Shoes’ cross-departmental work shadowing scheme and ‘C-Me’ communication workshops.

·         Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity Pay for eligible Home Team members:

The British Horse Society is committed to achieving equity for all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse workforce because, in our view, diversity enables better organisational outcomes. We also believe that a more inclusive workplace, where people of different backgrounds work together, ensures better outcomes for all employees.

We therefore strongly encourage suitably experienced people from a wide range of backgrounds to apply.

Only suitable candidates will be contacted directly about this position, and we will not store or process the data of candidates for longer than is necessary for the recruitment process.

How to apply: please provide a cover letter/personal statement highlighting your relevant skills and experience and how they meet the essential skills for this role, along with a CV.

Here at the BHS, we want you to have every opportunity to be able to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential when applying for any of our roles here. Please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustments so that we can help with making the application process work for you.

Due to a high volume of applications for our roles, should a cover letter/personal statement not be provided when applying for a role, we will unfortuntely not be shortlisting these applications.

Please note: we will be speaking to and interviewing candidates throughout the advertised period; to avoid disappointment, we advise you to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close posts at any time.

Closing Date for applications: 22nd March

Interview date: 2-5th April