Senior Manager, Strategic Development

We need an AWEsome Senior Strategic Development Manager to lead a team to facilitate the development, endorsement and coordination of AWE's strategies, strategic planning, and strategic change.

Location: Hybrid and flexible working, with our offices based in Berkshire RG7 4PR between Reading, Basingstoke and Newbury with onsite parking and public transport services.

Salary Range: Starting at £57,510 to £90,00 depending on skills and experience.

A typical day for a Senior ManagerStrategic Development could look like this:

Key Accountabilities:

• Creation of compelling business cases and papers
• Leadership accountabilities - as fed by blueprint for Mid-Level leader
• Definition and delivery of elements of company process 'Manage Business Strategy'
• Analysis of external environment to identify strategic trends, risks, issues and opportunities
• Strategic issues analysis and decision support, including strategic studies, strategic risks and uncertainty
• Development of long-term capability management strategy
• Stakeholder analysis and mapping - e.g., System of Interest, Nuclear Environment Timeline
• Achieving internal stakeholder support on key strategic issues
• Developing materials and providing support to strategy roll-out, implementation, review and monitoring
• Maintaining AWE's Corporate Strategy assets and supporting underpinning strategies
• Managing relationships with any contractors supporting strategy sub-function and provide budgetary forecasts

We would like you to demonstrate or have experience of:

• Excellent analysis and communications skills
• Managing ambiguity and complexity
• Project management
• Highly focused, strategic operator, able to prioritise activities with most impact and consciously deprioritise those with least, and manage the impact of doing so
• Outstanding writing, analysis and presentation skill set
• Curiosity about AWE's purpose and programme
• A will to learn and evolve
• Great communication and interpersonal skills, rapport building,
• generation and sustaining trust
• Diplomatic, tactful and discrete
• Ambassador for AWE
• Agile with MS Office applications

Why work for us?

AWE has been voted one of the best 25 big companies to work for this year. We offer a great package of benefits and career development as well as:

• Every other Friday off
• Pension contributions between 9% to 13%

Take a look at our benefits on our careers site.

Applications via: AWE Careers

Security Clearance (funded by the AWE) is required in order to start which takes several months to complete.

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Important things you need to know:

• Interviews will be scheduled during working hours
• Interviews will be 90 minutes on TEAMS and will include a 5-to-10-minute presentation
• Flexible and hybrid

If we receive a high level of applications, this vacancy may close early. Refresh your CV and apply now!

For more information about the role or the recruitment process, get in touch with me (Sunflower) at:

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