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About the Role

This role is about people and partnerships. You will lead strategic engagement across Defence, build trusted relationships at the most senior levels, and create the conditions for diverse teams to come together and solve complex challenges. You will help shape priorities, enable better decisions and ensure that commissioned activity remains aligned to Defence's strategic objectives. You will help build the organisation itself, creating a Directorate that is scalable, data-led and constantly learning. We are looking for an inclusive and authentic leader who is comfortable working through complexity, building trust across organisational boundaries and turning ideas into action. Someone who takes ownership of outcomes, values partnership over hierarchy, and is motivated by enabling others to succeed. This is a unique opportunity to shape a new organisation, influence decisions at the heart of Defence, and help build the relationships, systems and ways of working that will underpin Defence's future success.

Responsibilities

Lead strategic engagement across Defence.
Build trusted relationships at the most senior levels.
Create the conditions for diverse teams to come together and solve complex challenges.
Help shape priorities.
Enable better decisions.
Ensure commissioned activity remains aligned to Defence's strategic objectives.
Help build the organisation itself.
Challenge constructively.
Innovate confidently.
Deliver outcomes that make a tangible difference.
Turn ideas into action.
Take ownership of outcomes.
Value partnership over hierarchy.
Enable others to succeed.

Requirements

Comfortable working through complexity.
Comfortable building trust across organisational boundaries.

Skills

Strategic partnering
Leadership
Relationship building
Problem solving
Decision making
Collaboration
Adaptability
Continuous improvement
Data-led approaches
Innovation
Communication

Location

Remote
Hybrid

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior level

About the Company

Options Development acts as a front door into the National Armaments Director Group, working across the whole of the Ministry of Defence, Front Line Commands, industry, academia and international partners to understand demand, shape problems and connect decision-makers with the expertise they need.
We are building a genuinely collaborative, One Defence approach - one that reduces duplication, improves coherence and helps Defence focus its effort on what matters most.
We want Options Development to be a place where accountability, collaboration, adaptability and continuous improvement are more than values on a page.
We are creating a Directorate that is scalable, data-led and constantly learning.