Managing Director, Enabling Domain

Contract: Permanent - Full Time Reports to: Chief Executive Officer Shape the Future. Enable National Impact.

The Met Office is one of the world's leading weather and climate science organisations, helping citizens, businesses and governments make better decisions to stay safe and thrive.

We are seeking an exceptional executive leader to join our Main Board as Managing Director, Enabling Domain incorporating Chief Financial Officer. This is a rare opportunity to lead a critical part of a nationally important organisation and drive transformation across the corporate services enabling functions that underpin our success.

This role combines strategic enterprise leadership with Chief Financial Officer accountability, overseeing the resources, systems, governance and people that allow the Met Office to deliver its mission.

From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are.

As Director of the Enabling Domain, you will lead a diverse portfolio of professional functions that support the effective, secure and compliant operation of the Met Office, including:

• Commercial
• People & Culture
• Communications and Engagement
• Governance and Legal
• Internal Audit
• Health, Safety and Wellbeing
• Security and Cyber Security
• Corporate IT

Reporting directly to the CEO and serving as a member of the Main Board, Executive Committee and Audit & Risk Assurance Committee (ARAC), you will help shape our long‑term ambitions and deliver our strategy.

You will lead a newly established Enabling Domain of approximately 650 colleagues, working across multiple disciplines to build an integrated, high‑performing and future‑ready organisation.

• Contribute to the strategic leadership of the Met Office as a member of the Main Board and Executive Committee.
• Partner with the CEO and fellow Directors to set organisational direction and ensure successful delivery of strategic priorities.
• Promote a culture of innovation, inclusion, accountability and high performance.
• Lead the Enabling Domain and oversee delivery of its strategy, operating model and transformation agenda.
• Chair the Enabling Domain Board and provide clear strategic direction across all enabling functions.
• Establish effective governance, policies and service arrangements across the organisation.
• Drive operational excellence, simplification and efficiency through modernisation and automation.
• Act as Chief Financial Officer for the Met Office.
• Provide stewardship of annual turnover of approximately £300 million.
• Lead a direct cost base of approximately £100 million.
• Oversee substantial government loans, grants and capital programmes worth around £100 million, including major national infrastructure investments.
• Ensure compliance with Managing Public Money, Government Functional Standards and all relevant financial governance requirements.
• Deliver robust financial planning, forecasting, risk management and performance oversight.

• Play a leading role in embedding the recently established domain model.
• Drive organisational transformation and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Build strong collaboration and alignment across the organisation's three strategic domains.
• Ensure enabling services evolve to meet future business needs.

• Represent the Met Office at senior levels across government.
• Build trusted relationships with Accounting Officers, senior finance leaders and key stakeholders.
• Engage confidently with sponsoring departments,…