Senior Business Manager – London

Charity People have partnered with a health charity looking to recruit their very first Senior Business Manager. This is an exciting time for you to join and lead their core corporate functions. Reporting directly to the CFO, you’ll oversee multiple critical portfolios – Estates & Facilities, Health & Safety, IT, Corporate Governance, and Data & Performance, ensuring they are safe, compliant, and delivering high‑quality support to the organisation. This is a pivotal leadership role for someone who thrives in a varied, fast‑paced environment and is motivated by delivering continuous improvement across people, systems, and infrastructure. Hybrid: 3 days a week in London close to Victoria and2 days from home Salary: £50,150 per annum Duties & Responsibilities Provide strategic leadership across Estates & Facilities, IT, Health & Safety, Corporate Governance, and Data & Performance, ensuring they align with organisational priorities. Lead business planning, risk management, and performance reporting, acting as a key advisor to the CFO and senior leadership team. Ensure safe, compliant, and effective estates and facilities operations, managing contractors, service providers, and multi‑site coordination. Oversee Health & Safety compliance, strengthening audits, incident reporting, risk assessments, and organisational safeguarding. Drive corporate governance and data excellence, improving reporting capability, data quality, GDPR compliance, and insight generation. Lead, develop, and motivate high‑performing teams, fostering a positive, collaborative culture across corporate services. Person Specification Significant senior‑level experience in business management or corporate services, including leading multidisciplinary portfolios. Strong leadership and stakeholder‑management skills, with the ability to influence at all levels. Proven experience managing people, contractors, and high‑performance teams, with a proactive and collaborative style. Excellent strategic thinking, able to balance long‑term vision with hands‑on operational delivery in a complex environment. Robust understanding of governance, compliance, risk frameworks and data protection, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.