Business Manager - Submarines

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Business Manager - Services (Submarines)

Full Time (Hybrid 3 days on site)

Derby

The Services DBU has an exciting opportunity for a Business Manager. In this role you will manage the Services Enablement Team located across the Raynesway and Wilmore House sites in Derby to lead and drive the business systems that ensure the DBU delivers against both near and long-term commitments. This role will report to the head of In-Service Programmes.

Rolls-Royce is home to some of the world's finest minds. Nowhere are those minds more keenly tested than in our growing Submarines business. Our team is comprised of a broad range of experts in the fields of engineering, manufacturing, project management and procurement. This is your chance to join them

We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading the Services Enablement team consisting of business management, capability and improvement disciplines.
• Driving operational performance for the DBU and delivery of business commitments using analysis of performance data and metrics.
• Owning processes including annual strategic planning, annual financial budgeting and planning, and quarterly priority setting for recruitment and load capacity.
• Developing and owning the Services Business Strategy including the Communications strategy and Operating Model.
• Managing employee engagement, taking regular feedback, setting and tracking actions across all teams/geographic locations.
• Prioritisation and delivery of identified improvement projects, focusing on eliminating waste.
• Collaborating with Finance to deliver the financial budget for the Services business.
• Collaborating with HR to ensure robust controls on Manpower, Recruitment and Offload.
• Accurate, on-time reporting of KPIs to the Business.

Who we’re looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

• Previous leadership experience and people management with capable stakeholder management skills
• Comfortable with dealing with ambiguity and complex environment.
• Good problem solving and analytical skills
• Excellent presentation skills and comfortable presenting to senior staff
• Experience and knowledge of key business systems relating to strategy, budgeting, resourcing, operations, cost management and delivery.
• Experience with management data systems and business data analytics. Specific experience with SAP, P6 and ARM would be an advantage.
• Understanding of planning and project management.
• Understanding of risk management.
• Understanding of financial management and cost reporting

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines Business an individual has to hold Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if the individual does not currently already have this in place.

Due to the nature of work the Business conducts and the protection of certain assets a person has to be a UK national or in MoD approved cases a Dual National from a non ITAR country.

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