Manager - New Operations and Performance at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

Role Summary

• At the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI), we work at the highest levels of government to help leaders go further and faster to make their citizens’ lives better. Moving the dial on the great global challenges of our time requires engaged, incentivised, focused, and motivated leaders. When political leadership is relentlessly deployed, at the highest levels, incredible things can be achieved.
• Using our distinctive expertise and global outlook and guided by the unique insights and perspective of our Executive Chairman Sir Tony Blair, our dedicated experts and embedded teams advise governments all over the world in strategy, policy and delivery, underpinned by technology. 
• Our functional offers include Strategy: supporting political leaders to identify the barriers to progress, Policy: finding the right solutions, Delivery: making change happen, and harnessing the transformative power of Technology to support leaders to engage with forward-looking opportunities.  Sectorally, we work on the topics at the top of political agendas from economic prosperity, climate change and energy, health and education, to peace and security.
• The New Operations Strategy Manager is an exciting role in within New Operations Strategy, under the global New Operations and Performance team, which oversees the set-up of new country operations worldwide. The role will focus on working with the Senior Director of New Operations Strategy on systematising TBI’s entry into new geographies during a period of rapid growth, to ensure a rigorous approach to investment decisions; understand the opportunities and risks in a whole portfolio approach; and collaborate effectively across the organisation to enable visibility and consistency. 
• The role is unique blend of political advisory and analysis, business development, strategy and planning. It also offers an excellent opportunity to work at the global level with broad exposure to all TBI’s Advisory work and responsibility to shape and enhance its quality.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain high-quality products that support TBI’s systematic approach to new country entry and activation, such as project plans, templates, Handbooks, codified Standard Operating Procedures, toolkits, checklists, and FAQs
• Manage internal reporting and coordination mechanisms, overseeing key reporting products such as dashboards and weekly updates, as well as implementation of automated workflows and approval platforms
• Support the overall management of the New Country Entry Fund, including analysing and working with Finance to ensure forecasts are aligned with expansion pipeline
• Contribute to capturing/sharing/incorporating lessons learned across countries in the New Country Entry portfolio to improve the quality of our work
• Play a hands-on role in supporting opportunity scoping and relationship building to enable timely progress and establishment of new country opportunities
• Lead proactive analysis of industry trends, data sources, and developments to inform new country entry opportunities, including management of external consultants and analysts
• Develop tools and marketing collateral to support Regional Directors scope and pitch TBI consistently across new geographic opportunities
• Lead the development of products and processes that improve TBI’s approach to pricing, prioritisation, and ensuring quality throughout the project lifecycle
• Manage and run internal meetings, with a focus on driving team work flow cadence, planning​, and communication Collaborate with cross-functional teams, acting as a thought-partner to other managers across the Institute

Person Specification  

The successful candidate should demonstrate the majority of the following:

• Significant years’ experience in a manager position in a consulting/advisory firm, multilateral organization, or a private sector organization supervising and executing across multiple workstreams simultaneously
• Experience in public sector, multilateral institutions, consulting, economics, and finance are highly relevant. Technology experience is not required but is an asset.  What is required is a personal passion for politics and strong political acumen
• Experience in new market entry, generating new business and developing an organization
• Direct experience working in multiple countries is an asset
• Experience in working in entrepreneurial and matrixed environments, comfortable working in ambiguity while closely collaborating with global functional and geographic teams
• Insatiable curiosity for data, with a proven ability to process it with attention to detail
• Strong time management skills and a demonstrable strength in project management
• Demonstrable experience of being an entrepreneurial self-starter
• Demonstrable strengths in structured problem solving, top-down communication, portfolio thinking, and financial planning
• High EQ and excellent communication skills, from executive office level through to technical level, and who is adept at speaking to senior leadership, knows how to navigate ambiguous environments and is comfortable at managing up and beyond hierarchy