Practice Business & Governance Manager

If you're someone who brings analytical thinking, attention to detail and a passion for problem solving, you’ll thrive as our next Practice Business and Governance Manager in our Migrations team.

Job Type: Fixed Term to December 2027

Location: Hybrid, with an expectation to be in the office for team days a few times a month or as required for specific meetings. This may require travel to Telford or Edinburgh to meet need.

Flexible working: All roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about flexible working here.

Closing Date: 1st November 2026

Salary and benefits: £60,000-£80,000 plus indicative bonus range of 16- 32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.

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Who are we?

We’re Standard Life, a retirement specialist focused entirely on retirement savings and income. We champion the belief that everyone’s journey to and through retirement can be better, and for more than 200 years, we’ve been helping our customers plan and prepare for their financial futures.

Life today is increasingly complicated, uncertain and unpredictable. People move through different careers, face unexpected moments and navigate important choices. We offer our colleagues flexibility, trust and benefits that work for whatever life brings. In return we expect curiosity, connection, accountability and high standards. We make room for what matters - so you can bring your best, every day.

The role

The Practice Business and Governance Manager supports the Head of Business Management to oversee and coordinate the portfolio delivery of the TTP3 Hub and the provision of information and reporting to the External and Internal governance committees and Executive stakeholders.

This includes providing operational support across the TTP3 business practices, challenging senior business leaders, the main focal point to support programme audits, team engagement events, process and reporting improvements and providing resource to the business function to drive efficient outcome delivery.

The role is accountable for reporting, financials, risk and controls, communications and leading on adhoc resource demand/supply exercises to support significant changes to delivery plans.

What are we looking for?

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management experience with senior leadership
• An ability to work autonomously and think strategically, to impact and influence teams and individuals within Migrations and externally to determine governance, process and recommendations
• Strong analytical skills to utilise data to review and resolve problems and make recommendations
• Experience in generating executive level reporting to a high standard includes Board reports and Steering Committee packs
• Strong knowledge of Change Management Governance
• Financial knowledge desirable

We want to hire the whole version of you.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

We’re reviewing applications as they come in, so apply early to avoid missing out.

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