Transformation Directorate Business Manager
Job Title: Transformation Directorate Business Manager
Salary: The starting salary is £59,839, which includes allowances totalling £2,928.
The salary is broken down as £56,911 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £69,342. Plus, a location allowance of £1,928 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.
Location: We want to provide you with the flexibility to balance a rewarding career with home-life and personal wellbeing. We recognise and promote flexible working as part of our diverse and inclusive workforce. Though you will be based in New Scotland Yard our ambition is to make the best use of our shared space enabling a mixture of remote and office based work. Some of the location requirements of this job will need to work with Director.
As Business Manager, you will support the Transformation Directorate, Director and their Teams on a day to day basis, driving the delivery of the New Met for London Plan across the organisation. This is a fast paced role in an incredibly rewarding part of the MPS. Given how closely Transformation and Strategy work together, you will be asked to work and support across both directorates.
The role will provide you with a range of opportunities and experiences, it will require you to manage competing short-term deadlines at pace, while driving slow burn projects across the directorate and broader group.
The role will also require you to work closely with and alongside project delivery professionals and operational policing colleagues to help deliver significant change across the organisation. You will be key to unblocking issues preventing progress within our projects, or supporting the director writing and coordinating board papers, decisions and driving actions.
As Business Manager you will act on behalf of the Director to deal with issues using judgement and experience to resolve day to day problems. You will need to balance competing priorities and use attention to detail to identify risks and manage or escalate those effectively. The successful candidate will be comfortable working with little oversight or direction. You will create strong relationships across the Senior Leadership Team within the directorate and beyond to help identify and mitigate issues, and work effectively with corporate structures and teams to manage and share information effectively.
Working closely with the Chief of Staff in Strategy & Transformation Group (who will line manage this position), you will use judgement to plan and deliver discrete projects, identifying and drawing in resources as required
As the main interlocutor between the 100s of officers and staff that work in Transformation Directorate, you will be key to ensuring that the Director’s priorities are delivered, working on a day to day basis with the Band D Personal Assistant.
To succeed, you will be a motivated self-starter, with experience of working in a delivery or strategic environment, and will be comfortable working at pace in a large organisation. You will be equipped with the interpersonal skills needed to build positive relationships, and influence, negotiate and challenge successfully across a range of internal and external stakeholders and partners. Experience of working in, or closely with, a Private/Staff Office environment is beneficial.
You will manage the Executive Support staff in the Directorate. You will be line managed by the Chief of Staff in the group, and be task managed by the Director of Transformation. You will be required to deputise for the Chief of Staff, and support other work across the group. You will form part of the group private office team, and be expected to support the leadership of that function.
As the work of the group and directorate is dynamic, you will need to be adaptable to change, and elements of your role may change over time. It is worth noting in particular that you may be tasked with supporting across both strategy and transformation directorates, and you will be expected to contribute to the wider private office in the group and support the Chief of Staff.
How to apply
To begin your career at the Met, please click the "apply now" button below. The application process requires a comprehensive CV (2 sides of A4 max.), a Personal Statement, and an online application form. Your CV should be concise, setting out your career history, key responsibilities and achievements relevant to the role. Please ensure you provide reasons for any gaps within the last two years. In your Personal Statement, you should explain your interest in the position and illustrate how your skills and experiences make you a suitable candidate. Please note that you should not submit two copies of your CV, and ensure that your documents are saved in either PDF or Word format, clearly labelled as CV and/or Personal Statement.
Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 5th October 2025.
Once received, your application will be reviewed against eligibility criteria, following this, your application will be reviewed by the hiring manager. The application review for this vacancy will commence 2-3 weeks after the closing date.
Following application review, successful candidates will be invited to interview.