Are you a strategic leader with a passion for driving growth, shaping market conditions, and building partnerships? Do you thrive on creating innovative solutions and fostering collaboration across diverse stakeholders? Certsure is seeking a Head of Strategic Engagement to lead our engagement activities, shape new markets, and establish us as a market leader.
We’re looking for someone who can:
Identify and capitalise on opportunities to expand our market presence and influence.
Lead engagement with senior stakeholders across political, regulatory, investment, and business forums.
Drive new product and service development aligned with strategic objectives.
Inspire and engage teams, promoting a culture of care and high performance.
Provide expert guidance to senior leadership, influencing key strategic decisions.
About the role
As
Head of Strategic Engagement , you’ll: Develop and deliver strategic engagement plans:
Map markets, identify stakeholders, and build relationships that drive mutual benefits. Shape value propositions:
Collaborate with subject matter experts to develop innovative solutions and repurpose existing offerings. Guide market entry strategies:
Prepare and deliver business cases, including go-to-market plans, to support Certsure’s growth. Horizon scanning and insight generation:
Identify opportunities and threats, providing actionable recommendations to senior leadership. Champion transformation:
Collaborate with senior leaders to align strategic needs with Certsure’s transformation initiatives. Foster collaboration:
Work across the organisation, ensuring operational plans, budgets, and risk mitigations align with strategic goals. You’ll represent Certsure as a brand ambassador and subject matter expert, building relationships that influence policy, regulation, and market development. What you'll be doing Strategic Leadership: Lead market engagement and foster relationships with key stakeholders. Align Certsure’s offerings with industry needs, driving growth and innovation. Develop comprehensive engagement strategies, delivering measurable outcomes. Operational Excellence: Oversee a £500K operational budget, ensuring resources are used effectively. Provide insights and recommendations that shape Certsure’s strategy and operational delivery. Champion best practices in governance, compliance, and risk management. Team Leadership: Create a culture of care and performance, inspiring and mentoring teams. Support career development, ensuring teams are equipped to deliver strategic goals. Deputise for the CEO, providing leadership as needed. Our benefits include, but not limited... 25 days’ holiday a year (plus bank and public holidays) Company car / car allowance Non contractual discretionary bonus up to 10% of annual salary Employee assistance programme Employee discount platform Flexible and hybrid working (depending on the role) Learning opportunities Life assurance Loyalty awards Workplace Pension Private medical insurance Sickness pay - Depending on your length of service, you could be eligible for our enhanced sick pay which is above the Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) amount. About us Certsure provides industry-leading certification schemes and support to the building services sector. These services are delivered through the NICEIC brand. For almost 70 years, NICEIC has been the UK’s largest certification body for electrical businesses with over 40,000 currently certified with us. As the industry leader, we drive the highest standards of competence and safety. We assess, certify and train electricians, plumbers, renewable energy installers, and gas and heating engineers. To become certified, businesses must demonstrate their compliance with technical standards and industry best-practice through rigorous assessments and continuing professional development. Trade professionals look to us for certification and technical leadership, and value the credibility our name gives theirs. We provide ongoing advice and support and list their businesses on our online ‘Find a trusted NICEIC tradesperson’ tool. We help build public trust in trade professionals – and we never compromise on that trust. We work alongside government and industry to shape policy and drive standards. Many UK businesses, government organisations, local authorities and landlords will only work with NICEIC-certified businesses. PLEASE NOTE: As an employer, Certsure does not provide sponsorship as a licenced UK employer .
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Head of Strategic Engagement , you’ll: Develop and deliver strategic engagement plans:
Map markets, identify stakeholders, and build relationships that drive mutual benefits. Shape value propositions:
Collaborate with subject matter experts to develop innovative solutions and repurpose existing offerings. Guide market entry strategies:
Prepare and deliver business cases, including go-to-market plans, to support Certsure’s growth. Horizon scanning and insight generation:
Identify opportunities and threats, providing actionable recommendations to senior leadership. Champion transformation:
Collaborate with senior leaders to align strategic needs with Certsure’s transformation initiatives. Foster collaboration:
Work across the organisation, ensuring operational plans, budgets, and risk mitigations align with strategic goals. You’ll represent Certsure as a brand ambassador and subject matter expert, building relationships that influence policy, regulation, and market development. What you'll be doing Strategic Leadership: Lead market engagement and foster relationships with key stakeholders. Align Certsure’s offerings with industry needs, driving growth and innovation. Develop comprehensive engagement strategies, delivering measurable outcomes. Operational Excellence: Oversee a £500K operational budget, ensuring resources are used effectively. Provide insights and recommendations that shape Certsure’s strategy and operational delivery. Champion best practices in governance, compliance, and risk management. Team Leadership: Create a culture of care and performance, inspiring and mentoring teams. Support career development, ensuring teams are equipped to deliver strategic goals. Deputise for the CEO, providing leadership as needed. Our benefits include, but not limited... 25 days’ holiday a year (plus bank and public holidays) Company car / car allowance Non contractual discretionary bonus up to 10% of annual salary Employee assistance programme Employee discount platform Flexible and hybrid working (depending on the role) Learning opportunities Life assurance Loyalty awards Workplace Pension Private medical insurance Sickness pay - Depending on your length of service, you could be eligible for our enhanced sick pay which is above the Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) amount. About us Certsure provides industry-leading certification schemes and support to the building services sector. These services are delivered through the NICEIC brand. For almost 70 years, NICEIC has been the UK’s largest certification body for electrical businesses with over 40,000 currently certified with us. As the industry leader, we drive the highest standards of competence and safety. We assess, certify and train electricians, plumbers, renewable energy installers, and gas and heating engineers. To become certified, businesses must demonstrate their compliance with technical standards and industry best-practice through rigorous assessments and continuing professional development. Trade professionals look to us for certification and technical leadership, and value the credibility our name gives theirs. We provide ongoing advice and support and list their businesses on our online ‘Find a trusted NICEIC tradesperson’ tool. We help build public trust in trade professionals – and we never compromise on that trust. We work alongside government and industry to shape policy and drive standards. Many UK businesses, government organisations, local authorities and landlords will only work with NICEIC-certified businesses. PLEASE NOTE: As an employer, Certsure does not provide sponsorship as a licenced UK employer .
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