Senior Business Manager/team Lead, Risk Operations

Senior Business Manager/Team Lead, Risk Operations & Business Engagement | S3 | Business Operations | Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

**WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING**

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Reporting to the Head of Risk Operations within the Risk Chief Operating Office, this senior business manager role responsibilities is key to achieving success and providing direct support to the Risk Senior Leadership team.

You’ll play a key role, responsible for developing, leading, and executing a forward-looking well-structured people & communications strategy and 12-month plan for the Risk Division (600 employees+).

**The difference you’ll make.**
- Improving the culture and the employee experience.
- Developing and drive the Risk communication & engagement programme including the Diversity and Inclusion agenda.
- Developing and executing a successful reskill plan, succession plans, talent and emerging talents programmes for the function.
- Lead people related activities to support the function whilst supporting functional HR/Property projects.
- Embedding a strong governance framework that ensures that the function and Risk COO adheres to functional responsibilities imposed by the bank.
- Representing the Risk function at senior forums.

**What you’ll bring.**
- Strong people management skills, gained through leading and developing teams dealing with a complex workload. Ability also to leverage in virtual teams.
- Strategic thinker with the ability to interrupt and evaluate information and make robust, evidenced based recommendations. Able to think strategically and creatively to drive operational excellence.

**It would also be nice for you to have.**
- Experience managing risk, implementing controls and governance.
- Previous experience in a similar role.

**What else you need to know.**

This role is based in Milton Keynes with flexibility working from home.

**How we’ll reward you.**

As well as a salary, we offer a wide range of benefits that you can choose from and tailor to your needs
- Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus
- Pension with generous contributions of up to 12.5% from Santander, depending on your own contribution and length of employment with us
- 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year
- £6,000 car allowance per year
- Company funded individual private medical insurance
- Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical insurance for your family, dental insurance, healthcare cash plan and health assessments
- Benefits supporting you and your family, such as death-in-service benefit, income protection, and voluntary life assurance and critical illness cover
- Share in Santander’s success by investing in our share plans

**Learn more about our benefits and family friendly policies**

**#ThePlaceToBeYourself - Everyday Inclusion at Santander**

You can find out more about how we’re embedding an inclusive culture that encourages our people to bring their full and authentic selves to work on our Inclusion and Belonging page.

**A bit more about Santander**

At Santander we’re driven by our purpose - to help people and businesses prosper. This means we help customers to create change for themselves and those around them, and we champion businesses to grow sustainably. We do this by always living our values of Simple, Personal and Fair.

At Santander, we each take personal responsibility for managing risk by embracing the I AM Risk framework - to Identify, Assess, Manage and Report risks, and to continuously build a deeper understanding of the risks we face. It is an important part of our culture at Santander, and we will provide you with knowledge to help you manage risks in your role.

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