Senior Performance Business Partner - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Royal Mail Group

Royal Mail Group

Verified Company

Birmingham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job reference number 299856**Senior Performance Business Partner

Salary starting from £58,000, 18% bonus potential and 27.5 days Annual Leave.

Full time

Permanent

CB, CV, LE, MK, NN, PE postcode area

Job purpose

A key leadership role, partnering the Regional Operations Director and their senior teams across the pipeline to achieve all scorecard measures.

This role provides expertise and direction to drive sustained quality performance improvement for across the pipeline however focused on delivery performance, working closely with the Operational Nerve Centre.

Key accountabilities

Working closely with RODs to prioritise and action targeted improvement activity, raising the professionalism and expertise across the pipeline to drive continuous improvement across the scorecard.
Deliver adherence to business standards alongside the area team, driving scorecard metrics across the pipeline to ensure compliance to operational business standards and regulatory requirements.
Establish a proactive environment for continuous improvement to reduce defects using standard tools and techniques aligned to business KPI improvement.
Provide independent assurance of local transformation change activity to ensure that that our customer promises are met, and any risk to regulatory and legal exposure is mitigated.
Build effective relationships at a senior level to challenge and influence senior stakeholders to deliver the customer scorecard and engage them on why quality matters through the eyes of our customers to enable parcel growth.
Manage functional points of conflict that could impact on EndtoEnd quality performance
Coach, develop and up skill functional leadership teams to deliver the capabilities to achieve overall scorecard targets and business integrity across the delivery function. Also provide Subject Matter Expert support and guidance to other areas of the pipeline as required.
Ensure that the region is using all the agreed delivery tools to manage performance and ensure all paid hours are worked [Resource calculator, IWT, PDA outdoor actuals, Trimble, weekly resource meetings]
Develop, coordinate, and drive through to completion improvement action plans in partnership with the National Performance leads and Nerve Centre ensuring that root cause is identified, and the correct fix is implemented.
Work collaboratively with the Nerve Centre to deliver its key aims and objectives at the regional level.
Works with individual OPLs and COMs to address area specific issues, and with national Nerve Centre team to call out issues and share good practice for adoption at the national level.
Act as the independent point of integrity and compliance in partnership with the operational team to prevent legal and regulatory breaches through monitoring assuring and coaching, escalating unresolved noncompliance in a timely manner.

Key Skills

Performance focused with a strong track record of delivering improvement
Work within the Regional Operations Leadership team to provide a customer conscious, balancing functional priorities to deliver a balanced scorecard
Capability to rapidly assimilate a wide range of factors to identify key risks and translate these into targeted action whilst maintaining basic condition.
Effectively prioritise multiple and challenging / conflicting workload requirements in conjunction SMEs and stakeholders
Excellent written and verbal communications skills, including a level of quality systems awareness to be able to analyse data
A highly capable leader with integrity, tenacity and energy who thrives in a complex and demanding environment.
Advanced analytical skill set with the capability to affectively plan, prioritise and deliver.
The ability to act autonomously and to exercise judgement.
Proactive individual with an ability to quickly establish relationships and influence others.
Credibility and the ability to create and maintain positive tensions with senior level stakeholders and harness to drive sustained performance improvement
Can work collaboratively and strategically in a cross stakeholder and multifunction role

Experience

Experience and extensive knowledge of the customer, quality and service integrity policies, products, processes, licence conditions, regulatory compliance and end to end pipeline.
Experience in delivery systems tools and processes
Track record in delivering overall scorecard targets for regional area
Track record of delivering complex change
Ability to solve complex problems and build actions plans that resolve root cause
Excellent coaching skills and the ability to deliver results through others
Experience of business partnering with a track record of excellent stakeholder management, successfully achieving target measures
A business leader role modelling adherence to business standards, with an enhanced level knowledge and experience of continuous improvement tools and techniques