SOMERSET COUNTY COUNCIL

Business Development

Somerset County Council is an ambitious local authority situated in an attractive part of the country. We commission, enable and provide a diverse range of services to over half a million people living in the County.

We offer an exciting and stimulating business environment which is driven by changing the way we work, how we meet customer needs and how we respond to policy and financial challenges. We are building an organisation that is positive, forward thinking and customer focused. This has included putting in place a new organisation structure and leadership team.

Business Development now provides a full range of business, commercial and transformation capability to the wider organisation. This includes managing some of our major suppliers, providing commercial expertise, and leading business and technological change.

We want to recruit people who share our ambition to deliver our change agenda and help build the Business Development function.

Service Manager – Business Change Advisors – 2 posts Salary up to £43,152 Ref No: 5914/JLB/MJ

You will work with senior leaders to provide advice, guidance and influence about effective change management and leadership accountabilities, influencing training and the development of programme design.

Your activities will include overseeing and directly delivering high quality business improvement/business change activity across the organisation and with partners, will add value and drive performance. Sitting centrally, with links to each business area within SCC, you will be aware of the various levels of impact of change on the business and customers, and tailor approaches accordingly.

You will also contribute towards SCC being a learning organisation, allowing the sharing of lessons learnt and best practice. As the key link between each business area and individual Programmes, horizontally across the Council, you will ensure better communication, understanding and buy-in and delivery of benefits that feed financial planning.

By leading the promotion of a business improvement ethos across the organisation you will aid a consistent communications approach, particularly around managing change and also accelerate the process and ensure quality of in-flight change activity, identifying and confronting change resistance.

For an informal discussion about the post please contact Louise Day, Strategic Manager – Business Change on 01823 355559. Full details can be found at Somerset County Council website. You can contact the recruitment team at recruitment@somerset.gov.uk or telephone 01823 356862 (24 hour answerphone). Please quote the reference number 5914/JLB.

Closing date for receipt of a tailored CV and a statement of suitability of no more than two pages of A4 setting out how you meet the requirements to be received by 5pm on 16th May 2013. Please quote the reference number 5914/JLB. Interviews will be held week commencing 10 June 2013.