Executive Business Manager

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. You will receive:

Competitive salary and pension scheme

33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing to 38 days over 5 years

Cycle to work scheme Electric Vehicle Scheme (subject to terms)

Health and Wellbeing portal – access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme

Discounts – you will have access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym membership, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays and shopping

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,100 employees and over 20,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning. As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future.

St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, and Young Responders programmes).

The Executive Business Manager plays a key role in ensuring the effective running of executive business at SJA, combining strong governance, strategic coordination and practical, hands‑on support to senior leaders. Working closely with the Director of Strategy and Performance, the postholder leads the business of key senior leadership forums and committees, ensuring organisational priorities are clearly understood, decisions are translated into action, and issues are progressed to resolution.

They provide confident, constructive support to senior leaders to strengthen the quality of decision-making, papers and meetings, while offering visible, proactive leadership to the Executive Assistant team to deliver high‑quality executive support and working closely with Governance colleagues to align executive business with Board and Committee requirements.

• You have experience coordinating senior leadership or Board‑level meetings, with a strong understanding of effective governance and decision‑making.
• You are highly organised, with excellent planning skills and the ability to manage competing priorities, deadlines and interconnected activities.
• You build trusted relationships with senior leaders, communicating confidently and providing constructive challenge with professionalism and discretion.
• You are a clear thinker with sound judgement and excellent written skills, able to turn complex business matters into clear actions and concise, high‑quality papers.
• You are an authentic, supportive leader who can develop a team, set clear expectations and enable others to deliver high‑quality work.
• You take a proactive, practical approach to improving processes and ways of working, combining strategic awareness with hands‑on delivery.

• Lead and develop the Executive Assistant team, providing visible, supportive leadership and ensuring consistent, high‑quality executive support.
• Coordinate key senior leadership meetings and committees, managing forward planning, agendas, papers, minutes and action tracking.
• Connect discussions, decisions and actions across meetings, ensuring priorities progress, deadlines are met and issues are escalated where needed.
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