Executive Business Manager

This role is focused on providing support to the Customer and Business Development Directorate by leading strategic projects, monitoring the directorate strategic plan and managing people and finance planning. In addition, the role holder will line manage a small team providing support to the wider senior team to ensure effective delivery., Your main duties will include: •Provide business support to the Customer and Business Development Director. This includes developing presentations, writing governance papers and completing research reviews on behalf of the Director and CBD. In addition, you will be a key point of contact for stakeholders who require direction or guidance from a CBD perspective. You will also attend meetings and workshops to contribute on behalf of CBD ensuring key information is shared and actions are captured. •Lead strategic people and finance planning for the directorate, working with the senior team on a unified planning and monitoring approach. This involves analysing and presenting on a multi-year budget, confidently reviewing finance data to provide assurance and narrative on the finance position. This also includes being the Directorate BLO (Budget Liaison Officer). •Collaborate with the Portfolio Management Office (PMO) to develop the directorate Strategic Plan and lead on analysing and communicating insights to ensure delivery of our critical path. •Lead strategic projects as required to coordinate or implement improvements or changes in support of the CBD Directorate’s objectives. •Coordinate and communicate strategic, people, finance and operational performance information. •Lead and manage the Customer and Business Development directorate support office, line managing a small team of admin support officers.

•A relevant qualification (for example in Finance or Business Management), or substantial experience in relevant roles e.g. Business Manager, Project Manager, Stakeholder Engagement. •Strong and tested analytical skills in deriving timely insights from a range of information sources. •Excellent people skills – able to work with a wide range of individuals to gather, analyse and communicate planning and performance information. •Ability to influence change confidently and credibly. •Experience of service, operational, resource and/or strategic planning in a multi-disciplinary organisation with the ability to problem solve to achieve strategic planning objectives. •Highly self-organised. Ability to work to frequent deadlines to a high standard while maintaining progress on longer term objectives. Experience in Project Management or willingness to learn Project Management methodologies and frameworks. •MS Office suite proficiency. •Experience with GenAI or willingness to learn about how to leverage GenAI. Competencies Analysis and making effective decisions •Ability to seek out relevant information to produce comprehensive documentation, recognising patterns and trends in a wide range of evidence/data and draws key conclusions, outlining costs, benefits, risks and potential responses. Leading and communicating •Continually communicates with others, helping to clarify goals and activities using appropriate styles, methods and timing, including digital channels, to maximise understanding and impact. Collaborating and partnering •Establishes relationships with a range of stakeholders within the directorate and across RoS to seek input and support the delivery of business outcomes and deliverables. Demonstrating commitment and drive •Takes responsibility for delivering expected financial and resource planning/ management outcomes on time, monitoring and managing these to a high standard., Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Alongside your salary of £46,224, Registers of Scotland contributes £13,391 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides. What can we offer you? – Benefits at RoS: •We are a welcoming and inclusive community that functions on supportive practices such as Agile Coaches, Business Analysts, UX specialists and more. •We offer a stimulating working environment and strongly believe that a diverse team is crucial to achieving our mission! •Our team is ambitious, acts with integrity and demonstrates commitment to progress and impact. We nurture talent and reward success. •We work in an agile way, which is applied across the whole organisation. •RoS offers a generous annual leave entitlement. Starting with 26 days of holiday plus 12 days bank holidays (for a total of 38 days). We reward your commitment to us by increasing annual leave by +1 day per year, for up to +4 additional days on your entitlement, bringing your allowance to 42 days. •We operate a 35-hour working week and offer flexible working arrangements (up to 30 hours flexi per month). •We offer office locations in Edinburgh & Glasgow and currently offer a hybrid working model, having established we can successfully work remotely. As part of the reward package, you will get access to: •Civil Service pension at circa 29% contribution on the employer side. •Service benefits, cycle to work scheme, discounted dental insurance, £100 eye care vouchers subsidised gym memberships, childcare vouchers, buying and selling annual leave, retail discounts and more! •Family friendly leave policies (Maternity at

• 1-year full pay, Paternity Leave/Shared parental Leave/Special Leave & more) after 1 year of continuous service.
•We offer continuous training and development opportunities, including being able to attend industry events. •A generous salary range with pay progression arrangements is in place. •You will have access to external counselling and external advice. •We are a Disability Confident employer. •We hold all three Investors in People awards: We Invest in People at Gold, We Invest in Wellbeing at Gold and Investors in Young People at Silver. •We monitor equal opportunities and offer support where needed.