Director of Enablement & Operations

Our client is the global leader in regulatory and sustainability intelligence, helping the world's largest companies navigate Environment, Health & Safety, Corporate Sustainability, and Product Compliance.

Their Expert Advisory business brings regulatory experts to clients around the world. It is growing, and growth needs an engine: clear processes, reliable data on capacity, the right tools, and a commercial machine that knows what it can deliver before it sells it.

This is that seat. As Director of Enablement & Operations you own the operating model that makes Expert Advisory scalable, repeatable, measurable, and commercially effective. You set the strategy, governance, roadmap, and KPIs of the Enablement & Operations cluster, and you stay close enough to the work to direct a lean team hands-on.

🚀 Responsibilities:

Strategy & governance

• Set the cluster strategy, priorities, governance model, roadmap, and performance expectations, in alignment with Expert Advisory leadership.

• Prioritize and sponsor operational improvements based on business value, risk, data readiness, adoption needs, capacity, and cross-functional dependencies.

Playbooks & standardization

• Lead the development and governance of playbooks, SOPs, templates, quality requirements, document controls, and review cycles.

• Make sure standards are actually adopted, and that adoption can be evidenced.

Resource planning & capacity

• Oversee demand forecasting, availability, allocation, workload risks, and escalation routines.

• Surface future capability needs before they become bottlenecks.

Tooling, data & AI-enabled workflows

• Govern the operational tooling and knowledge ecosystem: Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, reporting solutions, knowledge systems, and approved AI-enabled workflows.

• Define KPI standards, evidence requirements, reporting routines, and leadership insights, communicating limitations and dependencies transparently.

Commercial enablement

• Lead the commercial enablement framework: qualification, feasibility, effort estimates, proposal and SOW support, service information, and intake.

• Work hand in hand with Sales and Customer Success teams.

Leadership & stakeholders

• Partner with Expert Advisory leadership, service owners, Sales, Customer Success, Product, and Technology to clarify ownership and drive adoption.

• Manage and develop the Operations team, with clear priorities and realistic workload boundaries.

• Report on delivery, adoption, benefits, risks, and the decisions leadership needs to take.

👤 Profile sought:

Experience

• Proven experience leading enablement, operations, service operations, process governance, or business systems, ideally in a professional-services, knowledge-based, or tech scale-up environment.

• Track record designing operating models, governance frameworks, process standards, roadmaps, and performance measures.

• Hands-on experience with capacity and resource planning, operational reporting, and data quality.

• Experience in a regulated, process-heavy environment is a strong plus.

Technical skills

• Strong command of work-management, knowledge-management, collaboration, and reporting platforms (Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, Power BI or comparable).

• Sound judgment in governing AI-enabled and automated workflows: human review, source validation, access control, risk management, and benefit tracking.

• Able to turn data and evidence into practical leadership decisions.

Languages

• Fluent English required. Portuguese or any additional language is an asset.

Soft skills

• Leads cross-functional initiatives and drives adoption without relying solely on direct authority.

• Strong people manager and coach, with real change-leadership skills.

• Balances strategic direction with hands-on execution.

• Clear, transparent communicator with senior leadership.

🌍 Benefits & Culture:

• Operating scope: playbooks, capacity planning, KPIs, tooling (Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, Power BI), AI-enabled workflows, and commercial enablement.

• A rare mandate: build the operating model of a growing global advisory business, rather than inheriting someone else's.

• Real reach across the organisation: Expert Advisory leadership, Sales, Customer Success, Product, and Technology.

• A company that prioritizes its people, trusts them to deliver, and invests in their growth.

• Competitive compensation, benefits, and flexibility.

• Hybrid role.

💼 Department: Expert Advisory, Enablement & Operations

📍 Location: Lisbon (Hybrid)

📆 Start date: January 2027