Description
Practice Manager
6 months contract via Umbrella
Edinburgh/remote working
In a nutshell
Are you an experienced people leader with a passion to support the development and growth of others?
The Practice Manager is a people-focussed role, leading our Architecture Team. The role supports and manages colleagues through their development, performance management and everything needed to maximise their contribution to the success of our Architecture business as cover for our existing Practice Manager whilst on maternity leave. We are creating an environment where our team members can flourish and grow, with real opportunities for development and progression. This role is key to creating the right environment and culture, providing colleagues support and ensuring that both the operational and colleague-centred needs are met to help the Architecture function to excel.
Your team will be multi-geographical and you can be based from either our Milton Keynes, Widnes or Edinburgh offices with day-to-day location flexibility.
What you'll be doing
- You'll Practice Manage up to 30 colleagues (mix of permanent and contractors) as part of the Architecture leadership team delivering both the operational and colleague-centred needs.
- Support the resourcing needs for the Architecture practice, including being involved in the end-to-end recruitment process for vacancies within the team
- Ensuring all new recruits are onboarded and inducted consistently and are set up for success.
- You will lead the performance management activities, ensuring the team has a culture of robust performance management, being both stretched and supported.
- Identifying and facilitating development opportunities within Practice, including matching colleagues to opportunities and assignments based on their development needs, as well as their expertise.
- Maintaining a skills Matrix to understand skills gaps and future needs, whilst using it to feed into supporting individuals with their personal development plans.
- Facilitating knowledge transfer by moving the team from being a consumer of short-term knowledge, to industry standard, capable of meeting evolving and flexible strategic needs.
- Partnering with Portfolio PMO to create a holistic view of the function's capacity, supply and demand to support projects.
- Working collaboratively with other Practice Managers in the wider team to achieve consistency of colleague experience, avoiding duplication of effort and sharing of best practice.
- Influencing through a nurturing, coaching and empowering style, underpinned by the unswerving drive to achieve.
- Have a critical role in supporting the leadership team to create and model the right culture and environment for colleagues to thrive.
- Consistently focus on the bank being an inclusive employer and a place where people love to work
- Build and maintain meaningful relationships with stakeholders across the business
What you need to know and show
- The ability to energetically and enthusiastically motivate colleagues to achieve, in a changing environment, as well as identify the right skills for a job, define skills gaps and mentor colleagues through their development. Please note, you do not have to have specific Architecture experience to be considered for this role.
- Clear, straightforward and regular communication of functional and colleague-centric goals.
- Engaging communicator who connects, inspires and leaves a lasting impression
- You will have a background in people leadership, coaching, guiding and mentoring experience
- Expertise in performance management, never shying away from giving feedback with clarity, empathy and proficiency.
- Experience in identifying, interviewing and recruiting talent.
- Excellent presentation skills, both written and in person, comfortable presenting key messages in front of a large audience.
- The natural ability to take teams and stakeholders on the change journey, sometimes when the destination is still unclear. You'll create confidence, security and a positive working environment whilst priorities change.
- Expertise and experience in Architecture is desirable, although not mandatory
Intelligent Resource is committed to barrier-free and inclusive recruitment. We are a Disability Confident recruiter, and a RIDI 100 and Business Disability Forum partner organisation.
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