Head of Support Services

Head of Support Services – Job Brief

Job Reference:          19-22

Contract Type:          Permanent, Full time

Location:                    Lincoln

Practice Areas:          Business Support, Human Resources, Facilities Management, Security, Health & Safety

Salary:                        £60,000 pa

Hours of Work:          8.00am – 5.00pm Monday to Friday, with a one hour daily lunch break

The Role.  Our Support Services Division provides a broad portfolio of centralised enabling functions to colleagues operating throughout the UK.  Based in our headquarters in Lincoln, the small but highly regarded team are responsible for advising on and delivering Human Resources, Facilities Management, Business Administration, Security and H&S activities across the business.  We are now seeking an experienced individual with demonstrable leadership and professional qualities to continue to build team capabilities and to ensure our support functions are suitably positioned to best enable exciting growth and expansion opportunities. 

The Person. This will be a varied, interesting and highly visible senior role right at the heart of our multiple award winning Sunday Times Top 100 business and consequently it demands an experienced individual with demonstrable leadership and professional qualities, including a depth and breadth of experience leading multi-function teams in commercial environments.  It is essential that you have expertise in a range of the professional areas covered by the Support Services team and possess a willingness to broaden your professional skills to lead the full remit of the services covered by the Division.  As a senior head of department within Inzpire, you will work at all levels of the Company, including regular contact with the Board, daily cooperation with other senior managers, provide specialist advice to business development opportunities, and get hands-on and assist with operational delivery - therefore you should be able to demonstrate that you have a history of building and maintaining highly successful professional relationships across businesses.  You will need the strategic vision to influence long term planning, the operational focus to deliver in-year business plans and the financial experience to manage department budgets.  We also have a number of larger projects in the pipeline therefore experience of planning, implementing and successfully embedding new capabilities and change programs would be beneficial.  

Due to the nature of elements of the role, the successful applicant will be required to complete National Security Vetting which will require criminal record, security service and credit reference checks; qualification will normally require a minimum UK residency of at least 5 years.

The Benefits.  The Company provides the following benefits:

• Flexible working arrangements
• 30 days (minimum) paid holiday plus 8 days Bank Holidays per year
• Private medical and dental insurance
• Annual profit and performance related pay scheme 
• Death in Service insurance (minimum £100k)
• Company contributions into a Group Personal Pension Scheme
• Business travel insurance 
• Funded role specific training and financial assistance with Professional Development
• Tax efficient Cycle to Work and Charitable Giving schemes

The Company.  Inzpire Limited is a highly innovative and rapidly growing technology company who design, develop and deliver some of the world’s most advanced aviation related training, products and services from our modern office in Lincoln. We have been a Sunday Times ‘100 Best Small Companies to Work For’ employer for each of the last 5 years with a Best Companies employee engagement rating of ‘extraordinary’.  We have been crowned as the ‘Most Innovative Company in the East Midlands’ by the Government’s ‘Business is Great’ campaign, and won both the ‘Product of the Year’ and ‘Global Ambitions’ awards at the 2017 Lincolnshire Digital & Tech Awards. 

Our team consists of very experienced and highly capable aviators and outstanding software and systems engineers working together in a friendly and specialist Defence company with a mature ‘can do’ work ethic. Our central business functions are located in an easily accessible, bright, modern Head Office to the West of Lincoln alongside our Mission Systems team while the majority of operational specialists within our managed services divisions are embedded alongside our military customers.

Equal Opportunities.  We genuinely recognise the benefits of a diverse and inclusive working environment.  We are proud to be a supportive signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant and a 2019 Gold Award Winner within the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.  We are therefore delighted to offer a Guaranteed Interview Scheme to Service Leavers, Reservists and Military Spouses or Partners (including those of Service Leavers) who meet all our advertised requirements.