Governance Manager
Governance Manager
This is not a statutory Company Secretary role, but it plays a key part in supporting the Group Company Secretary to discharge their responsibilities.
The post-holder owns the governance calendar, manages the end-to-end paper process, drives meeting discipline, and maintains accurate minutes, action and decision logs in line with delegated authorities and policy. They also champion innovation, adopting secure digital tools and responsible AI to enhance speed, clarity and assurance.
Salary Range:£45,000 - £55,000
Key responsibilities include:
People - Board & Committee Meeting Cycle: Manage the governance strategy and oversee the full cycle from commissioning and quality-assuring papers to preparing and distributing digital packs.
Ensure meetings run to schedule, with clear agendas, timely papers and high-quality information that enables effective decision-making.
Provide professional secretariat support during meetings, offering procedural guidance and capturing decisions and actions in real time.
Produce concise, accurate minutes and maintain a single action/decision log, ensuring follow-up and accountability at subsequent meetings.
Work with colleagues across the business to identify future requirements for papers to support agenda items. Ensure that colleagues (including the Senior Leadership Team) are well supported and prepped for meetings.
Agenda Setting & Executive Support: Work with the Chair and ELT to set outcome-focused agendas with well-defined decision requests.
Provide timely briefings to Chairs on upcoming items, outstanding actions and governance risks.
Governance Calendar & Forward Planning: Own the annual governance calendar, ensuring Board and Committee dates, paper deadlines and workplans are aligned with the corporate planning and budget cycle.
Maintain a forward agenda planner so that statutory, strategic and performance items are scheduled with the right lead times and decision pathways.
Company Secretarial & Governance Administration: Support the Company Secretary with day-to-day company secretarial activity across the Group and subsidiaries.
Maintain statutory registers, decisions and conflicts of interest records; support filings as required.
Review and update Committee Terms of Reference and governance artefacts to reflect organisational changes and delegated authorities.
Where required, provide diary management for the ELT.
Governance Strategy, Policies & Assurance: Keep the governance strategy current and aligned to Business Services policies and control frameworks.
Ensure decision papers and minutes reflect risk and internal-control implications.
Support the annual review of governance information flows and proportionate adoption of the UK Corporate Governance Code 2024.
Stakeholder Management & Communications: Build trusted relationships with Non-Executive Directors, ELT/SLT, authors and external advisers.
Act as the single point of contact for governance matters.
Provide coaching and feedback to authors to improve the quality and consistency of papers.
Innovation & Technology Enablement: Manage the governance technology toolkit and distribute packs exclusively via a secure board portal with appropriate controls.
Train users and support adoption of digital tools.
Introduce approved AI-assisted workflows (e.g. summaries, action extraction, drafting aids) with safeguards, oversight and transparency.
Benefits:
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Rewarding career path: Enjoy a progressive role with a competitive salary structure and bonus scheme.
- Work-life balance: Maintain a healthy work life balance with a flexible 35-hour workweek, 25+ days of annual leave (increasing after 2 years), and the option to buy and sell annual leave.
- Benefits package: A comprehensive benefits package including a competitive pension, leadership development program, team events, healthcare cash plan, rewards and benefits scheme, death-in-service benefit, cost-of-living adjustments and even a birthday day off.
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