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About the Role
This is a high-impact leadership role at the heart of the business, with a clear mandate to drive stronger financial performance, sharpen accountability and turn insight into action across our international portfolio. Working closely with senior leaders, you will get beneath the numbers to understand what is driving performance, identify where intervention is needed and ensure clear recovery plans are owned and delivered.
Responsibilities
- Establish and lead the Group Performance Management capability, including its operating model, governance and ways of working.
- Develop a consistent Group-wide performance framework, including institutional scorecards, KPIs, performance standards and escalation mechanisms.
- Lead structured performance reviews with institutional and functional leadership teams.
- Provide independent, evidence-based challenge, identifying the underlying causes of underperformance rather than focusing solely on reported outcomes.
- Oversee recovery plans, ensuring actions have clear ownership, milestones and measurable outcomes.
- Track performance commitments through to delivery and escalate where sufficient progress is not being made.
- Use cross-institution benchmarking to identify performance gaps, emerging risks and opportunities to share best practice.
- Provide senior leadership with clear, concise insight into portfolio performance, key risks and areas requiring intervention.
- Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders across the organisation while maintaining the independence needed to provide constructive challenge.
- Build and lead a high-performing performance management team.
Requirements
- Accomplished senior leader with experience in performance management, portfolio operations, commercial finance, value creation, business improvement or operational transformation.
- Significant experience working within a complex, multi-entity or international organisation.
- Strong track record of identifying and addressing business underperformance.
- Excellent commercial and financial acumen, with the ability to connect financial results with operational and strategic performance.
- Experience developing performance frameworks, KPIs, scorecards and executive review processes.
- Confidence and credibility to constructively challenge CEOs, CFOs and other senior stakeholders.
- Strong analytical capability and the ability to get beneath headline numbers to understand underlying performance drivers.
- Experience developing recovery plans and driving actions through to measurable outcomes.
- Experience building a new function, capability or operating model would be particularly valuable.
- Experience within private equity portfolio operations, value creation or another highly performance-focused environment would also be advantageous.
Skills
- Performance Management
- Portfolio Operations
- Commercial Finance
- Value Creation
- Business Improvement
- Operational Transformation
- Financial Acumen
- Analytical Capability
Location
- International
Work Type
- Hybrid working
Experience Level
- Senior Leader
Benefits
- Hybrid working
- Contributory Pension Scheme
- Private Medical Insurance
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Season Ticket Loan
- Eye Care Vouchers
- Training & Development opportunities
- Staff Discount Scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Refer a Friend Scheme
About the Company
- Global University Systems (GUS) is one of the world's leading education groups, bringing together a diverse network of higher education institutions, academic partners and student recruitment organisations across multiple countries.
- With more than 11,000 colleagues and 36 academic institutions worldwide, we combine global scale with an entrepreneurial mindset, creating opportunities to innovate, grow and make an impact.
- As an ambitious international organisation, we continue to evolve, invest and expand, giving our people the chance to help shape what comes next and to change lives through education.
- While our reach is global, much of our success comes from maintaining the agility, pace and hands-on approach of a growing business.
- We value people who are comfortable navigating change, taking ownership and turning ideas into action in a dynamic and fast-moving environment.
- If you're looking for a career with challenge, pace, international exposure, genuine ownership and the opportunity to be part of a successful global organisation that's continuing to grow, we'd love to hear from you.
Equal Opportunity
- GUS is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religion or belief.