Senior Business Operations Training Lead

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Senior Business Operations Training Lead

Closing Date: 10th June 2025

Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.

Hybrid working is available for this role on an informal, non-contractual basis. Typically, 3 days onsite per week as a minimum.

Package: from £47,860 (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)

A relocation package may be available (terms and conditions apply).

Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.

Let us introduce the role

AWE is currently recruiting for a Senior Business Operations Training Lead to sit within the Physics Business Operations Team. You will gain a unique insight into the leadership and governance of the Physics sub-function, working with both the management team and key stakeholders.

This role is ideally suited to a business analyst who enjoys working with data and automating processes, with an eye for trend analysis. The role would be supporting both tactical and strategic tasks across Physics, with a focus on training.

A successful candidate would have a board range of skills enabling them to support designing and implementing a Training Hub using SharePoint, tracking, managing and implementing training dashboards, general data analytics, information management and communications to a broad range of audiences from the management team to the Physics staff in a wide variety of disciplines.

A proactive attitude is key for this role, with a willingness innovate and identify new ideas to help Physics support the management team in a proficient, sustained and secure manner.

What you could be involved with or responsible for:

Building the Physics training plans and implementing the training strategy.

Building a training dashboards with useful metrics that feed into the sub-functions Visual Management Board (VMB) to track mandatory training, technical training and upskilling pathways.

Establishing a Training Hub. This would involve keeping relevant SharePoint pages up to date with training opportunities, pulling together career pathway training curriculums e.g. What does the training look like for the different Physics disciplines for the first 6months, 1st year, 3yrs, 5yr and 10yrs and seeing where we can upskill staff.

Shaping the Technical Training Modules. Considering questions such as "How do we want to manage these, and move forward with our technical training modules?"

Developing and implementing upskilling for staff across Physics. What does this look like.

Arranging tours around facilities to broadens staff's knowledge.

Ensuring that there are fair and equal opportunities offered to all early, mid and late career staff from a diversity and inclusion perspective.

To support the Head of Physics and Physics Business Operations team with training related transformation activities, company initiatives, and any other reasonable duties that align to this position.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for someone with strong stakeholder management and influencing skills with the ability to forge positive relationships in a fast paced and service-oriented environment. As well as excellent verbal and written skills, you will need to have an eye for detail, the ability to analyse data and be able to challenge and problem solve.

If you would like to be part of a dynamic team where you will be encouraged to develop and grow, we welcome your application.

Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we'd like you to have experience in some of the following:

Working with a variety of stakeholders across all levels of a business.

A high level of organisation with experience of setting up large meetings, ensuring all relevant documentation required, including proposals, escalations and performance reporting are delivered to the required quality.

Knowledge of developing suitable performance measures, setting escalation triggers and governance tolerances.

Ability to work collaboratively with a variety of business operations teams ensuring successful delivery of business plans and objectives.

A keen eye for detail providing insightful analysis, highlighting issues, risks and opportunities while identifying improvements and efficiencies.

Experience of supporting review, learn and improve (RLI) activities.

Some reasons we think you'll love it here:

AWE has wide range of benefits to suit you. These include:

9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.

Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).

Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.

Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.

Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.

Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).

Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.

Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.

The 'Working at AWE' page on our website is where you can find full details in the 'AWE Benefits Guide'.

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