Business Manager, Bene

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The purpose of this role is to lead and influence strategic and operational business plans for the Benelux cluster, with P&L accountability for £45m revenue. Drive growth, manage budgets, and ensure compliance with commercial, operational, regulatory, and legal requirements.

Lead P&L management to achieve overall growth targets of the business; develop and execute strategic and operational plans.

Responsible for strategic workforce planning, ensuring the right skills are in the right locations at the right time and price point. Focus on future needs and collaborate with the People Partner for EMEA to deliver on the plan.

Lead, motivate, and develop management teams to build capacity and capability through recruitment, performance management, talent and succession planning, and training and development, fostering a high-performance culture.

Drive employee engagement and bridge the culture gap within the business or sub-function, ensuring all employees understand and are committed to delivering both business and strategic objectives.

Identify opportunities to enhance market share by contributing to LRQA's inorganic growth plans, including mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures.

Foster and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including clients, partners, and industry influencers, to enhance LRQA's profile. Lead an open, transparent, collaborative, and accountable growth organisation.

Ensure operations run effectively to meet or exceed client expectations by seeking opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and deepen client relationships, further building the business.

Lead the Sales teams to achieve clear goals and KPIs for run rate, order book, and sales targets, with monthly analysis of actuals versus budget. Drive the development, tracking, and monitoring of account management and plans to meet growth targets within budget, ensuring year-on-year business growth and effective management of all relevant financial KPIs.

Drive quality and business improvements by ensuring that structures, systems, processes, and procedures are coordinated, effective, and efficient. This will meet business, commercial, and management systems requirements while improving margins to achieve business objectives.

Contribute to the development of new products and services for the service line, aligning with both local and global business development strategies and objectives.

Ensure compliance with health and safety standards by observing workplace safety behaviours, taking corrective and preventive actions, and implementing improvement activities. Manage your own and your team's adherence to health and safety rules, systems, and legal requirements, ensuring employees are properly trained and have the necessary resources to work safely.

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