Executive Business Manager

Job overview

Are you an experienced professional who can bring clarity, judgement and pace to a complex senior leadership environment?

We are looking for an Executive Business Manager to join the Corporate Governance Team and provide high-quality support, advice and coordination within the Chief Executive’s Office.

This is a trusted and influential role at the centre of the Trust, helping the Chief Executive manage priorities, make informed decisions and maintain effective relationships with colleagues, partners and stakeholders.

You will be an organised, credible and politically aware professional with the ability to work directly with a Chief Executive. This means being confident analysing complex information, producing clear advice and briefings, coordinating senior-level meetings and following through decisions and actions.

You will need excellent written and verbal communication skills, sound professional judgement and the discretion to handle highly confidential and sensitive information. You should be able to work autonomously, manage competing priorities, influence senior colleagues constructively and remain calm and effective when priorities change.

At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, our values are working together, always improving. You will join a collaborative Corporate Governance Team and work with colleagues across the Trust and with local, regional and national partners.

Main duties of the job

Working closely with the Chief Executive, Executive Directors, Board members and the Director of Corporate Governance, you will coordinate executive business and ensure that information, decisions and actions move efficiently through the Chief Executive’s Office.

Prepare concise, accurate briefings, reports, presentations and correspondence for the Chief Executive.

Coordinate Executive Committee business, including forward planning, agendas, papers, decisions and actions.

Manage the flow of information and priorities through the Chief Executive’s Office.

Undertake horizon scanning and bring together intelligence on policy, regulatory, system and stakeholder developments.

Coordinate responses to complex, sensitive and high-profile correspondence.

Support strategic diary and stakeholder engagement planning.

Track executive commitments and cross-organisational actions, escalating risks or delays appropriately.

Line manage the PA to the Chair and Non-Executive Directors and help ensure effective cover and continuity across the office

The role requires travel to Trust sites, meetings and events across Gloucestershire, with occasional travel beyond the county. Flexibility may also be required to respond to urgent executive business outside normal working hours. Please review the job description and person specification for full details of the role and the essential criteria.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will work across the Trust and with external partners to coordinate executive business, advise on priorities and support the Chief Executive's leadership of a complex NHS organisation. The role will routinely handle highly confidential, sensitive and politically significant information, requiring discretion, judgement and credibility.

The post holder will be a member of the Corporate Governance Team and will line manage the PA to the Chair and Non-Executive Directors.

Full details of the role and responsibilities can be found in the Job Description attached.

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The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

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