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Operational Support Lead

United Kingdom, Reading Employment contract 50000.00 GBP / Year · Job Posted June 16, 2026
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We are currently looking for a full-time, permanent Operational Support Lead for our Repair & Maintenance and Networks function within Operations. Your role will be to drive the continuous improvement of R&M and Networks operations performance through the creation and delivery of new processes, alongside providing robust governance, performance reporting, and stakeholder coordination to support operational excellence. This role is central to the successful embedding and the future transformation of the function. You will work closely with senior leaders, operational teams and contract partners to deliver meaningful and sustainable change, ensuring alignment with performance, regulatory, health & safety and commercial objectives. Base Location: Hybrid – Clearwater Court – RG1 8DB, with occasional travel to various depots and offices. Hours: Monday – Friday, 36 hours per week.

Job Responsibility

  • Regional point of contact for supplier relationships, making sure these partnerships work well and helping solve any problems
  • Leading and developing a small team within operational support
  • Providing insight and forecasts to help deliver year-end goals
  • Owning and delivering tactical projects to continuously improve performance and customer experience by identifying trends, analysing data, and recommending operational and process enhancements
  • Working closely with the Transformation team to deliver projects
  • Understanding operational requirements and commercial agreements to make sure our resources are based at the right locations against the correct working patterns
  • Working with the commercial team to facilitate supplier terms and conditions where required
  • Engaging with suppliers to control and coordinate onboarding
  • ensuring front-line teams have the necessary kit and equipment, ensuring accurate documentation, and compliance with internal processes
  • Managing and coordinating mandatory training for the front-line teams, supporting new initiatives, and helping keep the remote field teams updated with the latest news and briefings
  • Facilitating effective supervisor working patterns to manage standby, weekend, Christmas, and bank holidays
  • Managing contractors and direct employees to ensure data integrity and security
  • Supporting the data and insight teams with routine and ad hoc performance reports/presentations
  • Delivering safety and wellbeing improvement plans in partnership with the lead team

Requirements

  • A full UK driving licence
  • Be fully competent at using IT systems and Office software
  • Ability to identify problems before they arise, as well as being a practical and intuitive thinker
  • A track record in project delivery, with the ability to demonstrate delivery against commercial and operational objectives
  • Experience in leading a small team and influencing other teams to achieve our goals
  • Be a tenacious and resilient individual with the ability to work with confidence in a challenging and reactive environment
  • Taking responsibility for the preparation of documentation for the risk review session as required
  • A confident speaker who can present to a frontline workforce the needs of the business and vision
  • Comfort level adapting your communication style to delivery teams as well as more corporate senior stakeholders, and to display demonstrable experience of this
  • The ability to articulate clearly business cases linked to benefits and risk
  • this is crucial to the success of this role.

What we offer

  • Offering a salary up to £50,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience, plus £4,500 car allowance
  • Annual Leave – 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
  • Performance-related pay plan is directly linked to company performance measures and targets
  • Generous Pension Scheme through AON
  • Generous Paternity Leave, including 4 weeks paid and an optional 2 weeks unpaid
  • Enhanced Maternity Leave, 26 weeks full pay and 13 weeks half pay
  • Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of yourself and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance
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