Win Centre Director

• Leads and owns strategy for the delivery and transformation of the Win Centre capability in line with international best practice.
• Creates and imparts an effective, high-performance and continuous improvement culture for the Win Centre capability that drives functional excellence.
• Challenges the Win Centre team on win strategy aligned to solution and pricing for key priority deals, including challenging Operational, Financial and/or Commercial inputs.
• Acts as an approver at the Client Group level on behalf of Growth for Qualification and Deal Approval.
• Proactively manages function against utilisation and productivity expectations.
• Owns, establishes and deploys team Performance Management controls including agreed team capacity and utilisation metrics, supported by Growth Operations & Enablement leads.
• Owns and proactively manages overall Win Centre budget within agreed limits and delegated authority.
• Leads in the chairing of Lessons Learned processes on submitted proposals, devising action plans accordingly to reflect into future deals.
• Manages, monitors and reports on agreed functional KPIs and performance metrics.
• Creates and presents reporting that supports and informs strategic decisions in a complex environment, with a lateral view across the full CPS portfolio.

What we're looking for :

• Effective, motivational management of senior people managers, in a high challenge, high complexity environment.
• Holds expert knowledge and insight for Win Centre capability best practice and functional management, with demonstrable success and extensive external network.
• Strong commercial acumen, including a working understanding of company financial procedures and effective risk management.
• Defines and models effective internal and external relationships with colleagues, suppliers and partners that enables effective collaborative working and a positive and productive working environment.
• Fluent communicator across all media with internal and external stakeholders at all levels. Communicates decisively and transparently; able to defend a position effectively and give confidence upwards and downwards.
• Ability to prioritise and manage multiple conflicting priorities simultaneously, whilst maintaining attention to detail.

About Capita Public Service

Capita Public Service is an essential partner to the Public Sector. With over 40 years' experience, we partner with over 500 government and public bodies to tackle society's biggest challenges across Central Government, Local Public Service and Defence & National Preparedness. To support our stated ambition to be the Public Sector's go-to partner, the business has recently announced the creation of a new specialist internal function that brings together critical sales and sales enablement under a single leadership: a Win Centre of specialist integrated pursuit capability, delivered alongside Growth Strategy, Marketing, Products, Propositions & Solutions, Transactional Sales and Sales Operations.

What’s in it for you?

• A competitive basic salary of up to £140,000
• 23 days’ holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave
• The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice
• Auto-enrolment to our company pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks…and plenty more
• Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology
• Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform

What we hope you’ll do next:

Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

Equal Opportunities

At Capita, we’re committed to providing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and working environment for everyone. We want everyone to have the best chance of succeeding as they move through their application and start their career with us. We are an equal opportunity and Disability Confident employer, we want to hear from you if you’d like to discuss any adjustments you might need during your recruitment process. Please email reasonableadjustments@capita.com or call 07784 237318 and we’ll get back to you to discuss. For more information about equal opportunities and the types of adjustments we can offer, please visit the Capita Careers website.

If you have a question that does not relate to adjustments during your recruitment process, please email our Talent Acquisition team - CPScareers@capita.com