[Royal Mail]
Job reference 328423
Special Events Business Partner
From £45,944, 10% annual bonus potential, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising with service and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates
Permanent, Full time
This role will be based in Wales region. There is an expectation you will travel regularly across your region to suit business needs and there will occasional national travel for specific meetings.
About the role
A new opportunity has arisen within the team who do just that, they help our operations manage adhoc significant events affecting our customer performance such as floods in our premises, road closures, Royal events, Commonwealth Games etc, as well as the usual, cyclical planning for events such as Christmas and General and Local Elections.
The role will lead on critical business activity and are accountable for the design, deployment, managing deadlines, monitoring compliance, whilst always reviewing what we do to make it even better next time.
You will also:
• Have senior ownership for example of Christmas Peak Operations through strong stakeholder engagement of operational teams and during deployment of Peak and other major events you will become the face of the arrangements and need to take a lead role in ensuring the plan is deployed and achieved.
• Be instrumental in the design and execution of the Peak plan and all other event operational planning across the pipeline
• Review Christmas Parcel Sort Centres arrangements, along with all major out-housing for operational work, and the planning around those in order to balance the cost of provision while continuing to ensure the delivery of great quality of service
• Be strongly aligned with our facilities team in order to secure operational footprint/properties as and when required
• Drive consistency in Continuity Planning building an effective plan to ensure that our operations continue with minimal disruption during a crisis
• Have alignment with Commercial on operational impact of product launches
• Develop external relationships with key UK businesses such as Transport for London, local authorities, police etc that allow input to design of key infrastructure programmes that supports achievement of our operational plans
About You
As you’d expect for this type of role you should have excellent project management and organisation skills.
You should also have:
• A proven ability to work effectively across a highly complex organisation and to provide realistic solutions
• The ability to deliver results through leading, engaging, and coaching people
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with an ability to influence at all levels.
• Excellent interpersonal & presentation skills
• The ability to juggle multiple priorities across a wide span and spectrum of accountabilities
• The ability to work as a team as well as individually
You should be:
• Highly motivated and pro-active with an ability to quickly establish relationships and influence people at all levels
• A highly credible leader with stamina, drive and energy who thrives in a complex and demanding environment
• Able to understand and absorb substantial amounts of information quickly and accurately and drive appropriate action
• Persuasive, influential, able to communicate at all levels with well-developed written and verbal communications skills, including presentation skills
Extra Benefits
• Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
• Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
• Supportive and generous company sick pay
• Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It’s free, and it’s for everyone.
*Available only to perm employees
Next Steps
The next stage of the selection process will be a face to face consisting of competency based and role specific questions. We plan to hold interviews at our London office from week commencing 22nd September.
Trust is the foundation of Royal Mail. We aim to be transparent about the qualities we seek and what a career with us entails, building trust from the start of your journey with us. Your interview is the first step, and we want you to shine. To help you prepare, we’ll provide your interview questions in advance, so you can have your best examples ready. At Royal Mail Group, we value trust and our people.
We understand that candidates may not meet all the criteria for the role. If your experience is different, but you have relevant skills we’d love to hear from you.
Royal Mail Group is committed to inclusion and representing the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all individuals. As a proud Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant, we especially encourage applications from the Armed Forces community, including cadet instructors and spouses/partners.
We are committed to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process. If you require any adjustments to support you during the hiring process, please discuss these with your recruiter when contacted.
We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.
For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/
Closing Date: 10th September. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.
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