Director of Enabling Services
Leek Wootton, Warwickshire Police Headquarters
Permanent Contract
Full Time (37 hours per week)
Salary Grade N (£103,311 - £112,596 + pending pay award)
Closing date: 19 October 2026 at 9 am
Warwickshire Police are looking for an outstanding leader to join our Senior Leadership team as Director of Enabling Services. This role leads Business Operations, Human Resources, Resource Planning, Occupational Health, Legitimacy, Equality and Inclusion (LEI) and Learning and Development. The Business Operations team includes Estates and Facilities, Fleet, Seized Property, Uniforms and Operational Equipment and Administration.
Reporting to the Deputy Chief Constable, you will help shape the future of Warwickshire Police, ensuring our people, systems and processes contribute to delivering policing excellence.
You will lead economic, efficient and effective services including transformation initiatives and champion inclusive and collaborative ways of working to drive customer-focussed high-quality services across the organisation. You will play a key role in delivering a highly skilled and motivated workforce in a large, complex organisation.
Working closely with colleagues, partners and stakeholders, you will help foster a culture where people feel valued, supported, and empowered to succeed. By championing our Values of Service, Pride, Compassion and Learning, you will inspire high performance, collaboration and continuous improvement across the Force.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact, influence strategic decisions during a time of change with Police Reform and help deliver the best possible outcomes for our people and communities.
About this role
- Provides strategic leadership for the Enabling Services Directorate, influencing corporate decision-making through expert knowledge, advice and insight
- Monitors and manages the performance and operational effectiveness of the Enabling Services Directorate. This includes managing significant budgets and resources, ensuring value for money and control of expenditure within the agreed budgets and financial management arrangements
- Provides leadership for organisational transformation, shaping culture, improving systems and delivering change programmes that support organisational priorities
- Ensures that a culture of learning, coaching, talent development and high-performance standards is achieved to maximise the potential of the workforce and drive business improvement
- Leads on the delivery of strategy, policy, procedures and practices in all areas of responsibility
- Builds strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels, customers, Trade Unions, suppliers and partners
What you will bring
Knowledge and Qualifications
- A Degree level education or equivalent
- Professional qualifications in one of the disciplines within the Directorate
- An understanding of the political, economic and social factors impacting policing
Experience
- Experience of working in a complex organisation at a senior management level
- Experience of delivering transformational change programmes
- Strong track record of service improvement and innovation, target setting and evaluation for performance improvement
- Experience of leading multidisciplinary teams and maintaining strong working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders
- Experience of operating effectively within financially constrained environments
Skills and Attributes
- Strategic leadership skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities, with strong negotiation, influencing and relationship building skills
- The ability to inspire, motivate and develop teams
- Strong customer-focus to deliver exceptional results
- The ability to set and achieve high standards of performance, driving the right priorities in complex environments
Values and Behaviours
- All post holders are expected to know, understand and act within the ethics and values of the Police Service. These nationally recognised behaviours and values are set out in the Competency and values framework (CVF) | College of Policing This role requires the post holder to be operating at or working towards Level 3 of the CVF.
Please refer to the job profile for more detailed information regarding this key position.
If you would like an informal discussion to find out more about this vacancy please contact: StaffOffice@warwickshire.police.uk
Warwickshire Police is committed to building a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment, where everyone can thrive and make a positive contribution.
All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks, including police vetting. In line with our redeployment policy, priority consideration will be given to eligible Warwickshire Police employees, who are currently registered for redeployment.
