Location: Flexible (regular travel to HMP Fosse Way)

Salary: £39,259 per annum

HMP Fosse Way is a brand new, state of the art prison designed to focus on the rehabilitation of lower risk prisoners and their reintegration back into society. Fully opening in May 2023, Serco will operate and maintain the prison, providing a secure, safe and decent environment that will reduce re-offending through risk management, education, employment, respect, equality and inclusion.

At the heart of the prison will be an enormous industries and work operation, offering heavy and light workshops with associated training classrooms. We will be setting up a diverse portfolio of in-house, commercial, not-for-profit and vocational training partners, with committed funding for social enterprises. We therefore now have a unique opportunity available to be the Fosse Way Industries Business Manager. This is a critical role, because it will set up and launch the businesses in each of the workshops - selecting partners, agreeing commercial arrangements, ensuring both the quality of work, training, and qualifications available to prisoners (to enable them to secure meaningful employment on release), but also the commercial sustainability of each enterprise.

As Industries Business Manager, you'll have overall responsibility for setting up and subsequently running the commercial activities and will ensure that during the pre-opening phase, workshops open in line with the opening and ramp up of the prison. Working with workshop partners, developing relationships, and identifying new partners, you'll create sustainable commercial models that deliver affordable and meaningful work for prisoners, including liaison with commercial partners and engagement with external organisations to bolster the industries' function. This is an incredibly exciting opportunity because you will have the chance to influence what happens in the prison and what purposeful work activities we deliver to the prisoners. In effect you will be setting up and running up to 28 different businesses, in partnership with some global brands and blue chips.

Whilst this is a demanding role with a broad range of principal duties and objectives, you won't be doing it alone. You'll be working with a team of supportive colleagues who are passionate about the work we do and live by our values of Care, Trust, Innovation and Pride.

What you will need to do the role

Key to success in the role will be your ability to develop relationships with key potential partners, to negotiate financial and commercial arrangements, and to seek to continuously improve arrangements so that the operations are sustainable commercially.

If you have experience in enterprise set up and development or have graduated in the fields of Business Management/Studies or Economics/Finance/Accounting, allied to innate entrepreneurial and problem-solving flair, this may be the role for you. You do not necessarily need experience in a prison industries environment, rather we are looking for someone with a firm grasp of financial, commercial & P&L principles.

Why Serco

• Meaningful and vital work - In our prisons we look after around 5,000 prisoners in the UK and many more overseas, and we also deliver exemplary services in the fields of prisoner transport, asylum accommodation, defence, citizen services, health and transport.
• A world of opportunity - We are a broad global business able to offer unparalleled opportunities to learn and develop across our services portfolio and geographies. You'll be able to broaden your experience and apply your skills in new ways and territories.
• Great people - We are a motivated team who will encourage you and help you to succeed. You'll have the resources you need to do your job in a diverse and supportive environment.

What we offer:

• Salary £39,259 plus pension (matched up to 6%), life insurance; 25 days leave & bank holidays.
• A fantastic culture and supportive team; volunteer leave; continuous training & development opportunities.
• A range of benefits to support the health and wellbeing of you and your family such as Employee Assistance Programme, Thrive App, Simply Health Plans, Cycle to Work Scheme Annual Leave Purchase Scheme and more.
• Access to a huge range of discounts and exclusive deals.
• The chance to make a positive difference in a company passionate about diversity and inclusion.

About Serco
At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.

By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks - SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.

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At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. We operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly Disability Confident Leader employers and holder of the Silver Inclusive Employer Standard. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview. For help with your application please contact 0345 010 4000.

At Serco we support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the 'Ban the Box' pledge (some may be exempt due to the nature of the role and the security clearance required). Please contact our recruitment team directly on 0345 010 4000 to discuss.