Business Manager

Own and deliver against a project-based P&L, ensuring revenue, margin, and cash targets are achieved

Integrate performance across key pillars (Programme Management, Engineering, Commercial, and Sales) to ensure joined-up execution of the business plan

Ensure that healthy project performance translates into sustained P&L success

Prepare and manage budgets, resource plans, and business forecasts to support the achievement of business objectives

Ensure proposed opportunities and commitments are rigorously assessed against business capability, resource availability, delivery capacity, and commercial objectives before acceptance

Work in close partnership with the Programme Manager to ensure effective governance, controls, and delivery standards are embedded across all work packages

Maintain senior-level oversight of project performance, ensuring delivery against quality, schedule, and budget expectations

Define and oversee portfolio-level KPIs and performance metrics, ensuring clear visibility of trends and risks

Ensure early escalation and intervention where projects show signs of distress

Note: The Programme Manager leads day-to-day delivery governance; this role ensures the system is working effectively and delivering outcomes.

Lead monthly forecasting, reporting, and financial reviews, ensuring outputs are accurate, insightful, and decision-ready

Maintain a strong grip on cost, margin, revenue, and cash performance across the portfolio

Ensure all reporting is high quality and suitable for senior stakeholder engagement

Provide analysis and recommendations to support informed business decision-making and continuous improvement

Ensure appropriate oversight and assurance of NEC4 contract administration across the portfolio

Work with Commercial and Programme teams to ensure robust management of change, risk, and commercial positions

Support commercial teams in the negotiation and management of contract amendments, compensation events, variations, and associated commercial positions

Maintain a balanced approach that protects the business while supporting collaborative and strategic client relationships

Build and maintain strong relationships with client stakeholders at programme and commercial levels

Support the development of a pipeline of work packages and framework opportunities in collaboration with Account Managers

Support the development, review, and approval of proposals and quotations, ensuring alignment with customer requirements, delivery capability, and commercial objectives

Support the establishment and growth of long-term framework agreements and strategic customer relationships

Ensure that strong delivery performance leads to repeat business and long-term client partnerships

Ensure that effective processes, tools, and ways of working are in place across the business

Drive continuous improvement in delivery performance, efficiency, and consistency

Promote a culture of data-led decision-making and performance transparency

Identify and champion improvements in engineering methods, systems, digital tools, procedures, and ways of working that enhance quality, efficiency, and delivery performance

Provide leadership across the business, working through direct teams and key functional leads

Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and delivery excellence, tutoring Project Managers on the demands of the business and the wider context of their work

Support the development of capability across project, engineering, and commercial disciplines

Assess organisational capability and workforce requirements, supporting the development of skills, succession planning, and future resource capacity needs

Ensure teams are appropriately structured, resourced, and developed to meet current and future business demands

Ensure alignment with HSEQ, regulatory, and security requirements

Work closely with the HSEQ function to ensure customer quality requirements are fully understood and appropriately implemented

Provide assurance that quality standards are being consistently achieved across all work packages

Support audit readiness and implementation of corrective actions where required

Ensure all security requirements and obligations are maintained across the portfolio

🔹A dynamic career management policy to enable our employees to progress through our five business lines: operations, project, technical, sales and support functions

🔹Provide opportunities to work on exciting, global projects

🔹Access to an employee assistance programme with free mindfulness, health, wellbeing resources and a confidential support line available 24/7 via phone or text

🔹Discount vouchers for days out and restaurants, eye test and glasses vouchers, cycle to work scheme, free flu jabs

🔹Enhanced sick pay

Whilst we encourage applications from all nationalities, Assystem within the UK are subject to security and export control restrictions due to the nature of work to be undertaken. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and/or your place of birth may limit those roles that you can perform for the organisation.

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We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people’s ability to dare are the only things that matter !. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.