Job Description

Executive Business Manager

Application Deadline: 29 September 2026

Department: Executive Team - Finance

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: London or Edinburgh

Reporting To: Hayley Marchant

Compensation: £40,982 - £48,961 / year

Description

About the team

The Executive Support Team plays a pivotal role at the centre of the Finance and Transformation & Technology Services directorates. We provide high-quality operational, governance and business support that helps both directorates deliver their strategic objectives and organisational priorities.

This is a newly created role designed to strengthen business management capacity and improve operational performance across two busy and complex directorates. As part of a small, collaborative and high-performing team, you will work closely with senior leaders, becoming a trusted adviser and supporting key business activities while helping to ensure directorate priorities are delivered effectively.

Your role and impact

As an Executive Business Manager, you’ll help ensure that key governance, operational and strategic activities are delivered effectively across the Finance and Transformation & Technology Services directorates.

You’ll work closely with senior leaders, managing a varied portfolio of governance, performance and operational activities that support decision making, drive directorate priorities and improve directorate effectiveness.

In this role, you will:

• Lead and coordinate governance submissions, ensuring high-quality papers and reports are delivered on time.
• Review, quality assure and improve reports, briefing papers, presentations and other business documentation.
• Support performance reporting, KPI monitoring and the tracking of directorate priorities and implementation of corporate initiatives.
• Maintain oversight of actions, risks and key deliverables, ensuring progress is monitored and reported effectively.
• Build effective relationships with senior leaders and stakeholders, providing coordination, support and constructive challenge where appropriate.
• Support business planning, directorate communications, leadership briefings and engagement activities.
• Contribute to operational, strategic and transformation projects, helping to coordinate activity and drive successful outcomes.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve existing processes, helping the team to be efficient and impactful.

What you will bring

We’re looking for someone who is proactive, organised and motivated by helping senior leaders and teams deliver their priorities effectively.

You may already have experience in business management, governance, executive support, operations, project management, business planning, programme support or another role that requires strong coordination, stakeholder management and organisational skills.

You’ll bring:

• Experience coordinating complex activities, governance processes, projects or operational priorities across multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent organisational skills and a methodical approach to managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to produce, review and improve reports, briefing papers, presentations and other business documentation.
• The ability to build effective relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
• Confidence to provide constructive challenge, influence outcomes and support effective decision making.
• A proactive mindset, with the ability to horizon scan, identify issues and solve problems.
• A collaborative approach, curiosity to learn and a commitment to continuous improvement and high-quality delivery.

Please note that this role requires you to review and work with sensitive and distressing material relating to fitness to practise cases. You will be given the appropriate support to deal with this material.

Benefits

• 30 days annual leave
• Enhanced Pension Contributions via our attractive Pension Scheme – with a basic 8% employer contribution as standard which increases up to 14% with optional added Employee Contributions
• Life Insurance – 4 x current salary
• Hybrid working
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
• 24 Hours Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Perkbox membership
• Subsidised restaurant in our Portland Place office
• Season ticket loans

Additional Information

The role you are applying for is a flexible role, and whilst you will be posted initially to a team, this may require movement between teams as the flow of work dictates. You will of course understand that this flexible approach enables us to provide the best possible service to our registrants and reach the outcomes to our cases quickly and within a reasonable timeframe. This will not change your terms and conditions and will be discussed with you prior to you taking up the post.

Hybrid Working Policy

We are currently working to a policy of office attendance for two days per week with the rest of the time working from home. Before submitting your application, please ensure you are able to commit to working in one of our office locations twice per week. If you are applying for a part-time role, please pro-rata office attendance based on the number of days you would be working.

Our Pay Policy

It is expected that staff new to the NMC will ordinarily be appointed to the bottom of the relevant pay band. However in exceptional circumstances, it may be possible to offer a salary above the bottom of the relevant pay band but we may request proof of current earnings. Please note that we offer an annual review of salaries and adopt a generous progressive pay approach. Further details of which are available on request.

For our internal colleagues, you will be paid in accordance to our internal pay policy.

Reasonable adjustments

We will provide reasonable adjustments to support disabled candidates throughout the recruitment process. Please let us know if you need any additional support to enable you to make an application with us.

Screening and vetting

All of our roles are subject to pre-employment checks. We are in the process of introducing a vetting policy, and it is possible that this role may become subject to DBS and further vetting checks in future.