Salary: £135,941 per year
Contract Type: Permanent
Position Type: Full Time
Hours: 37 hours per week
Work From Home: Hybrid
Located in the heart of Scotland, Tayside, encompassing Angus, Dundee and Perth and Kinross, offers a wonderful blend of city, countryside and coastal living.
Tayside Contracts is the commercial trading arm of Angus, Dundee and Perth and Kinross Councils.
Can you drive organisational change to improve performance and services while navigating current and future challenges?
Tayside Contracts is looking for an inspirational and strategic individual to lead the largest and longest-serving local authority shared service in Scotland, employing approximately 2500 employees serving 420,000 citizens.
You will have lead responsibility for ensuring the development and delivery of a range of services, ensuring Tayside Contracts meets the requirements of best value and continuous improvements, empowering employees, encouraging innovation, improving performance, and promoting effective learning and knowledge management.
We are looking for someone with the highest level of political astuteness and personal integrity, alongside the ability to apply strong critical thinking skills to enable the organisation to deliver its objectives within statutory and value for money requirements.
Your ability to form close and productive working relationships within and outside the organisation is key, as is the ability to further strengthen relationships with a range of organisations both locally and nationally.
Employee Benefits
Working with Tayside Contracts has its perks and employees have access to a fantastic range of employee benefits including:
* 28 days Annual Leave rising to 33 after 5 years service
* 5 fixed Public Holidays
* Additional Long Service Leave and Long Service Awards
* Generous Occupational Pension Scheme (including 15.7% contribution by the employer and Ill Health Retirement Enhancements and Death in Service Benefits)
* Shared Cost Additional Voluntary Contribution (AVCs) Scheme
* Lifestyle Savings Discounts - giving you access to a range of discounts across UK major retailers
* Physical, financial and mental wellbeing support including access to an employee assistance programme
* Occupational Sick Pay
* Cycle to Work Scheme
* Tay Valley Credit Union
* Corporate Fitness Membership Rate
* Charity/Payroll Giving Scheme
* Annual Employee Awards
* Learning, Development and Career Progression Opportunities
* Flexible Working and Flexible Retirement Policies
Closing Date for Applications - Sunday 23 March 2025
Assessment Centre, facilitated by Solace in Business - Wednesday 23 April 2025
Interview Date - Tuesday 29 April 2025
This is an elected member appointment. The Panel will consist of members of Tayside Contract's General Purposes Committee.
The Advisors will be:
* Thomas Glen, Chief Executive, Perth and Kinross Council
* Paul Thomson, Head of Finance, Dundee City Council (Proper Officer Representative)
* Maureen Moran, Legal Manager, Dundee City Council (Clerk to the Board Representative)
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