Head of Operations

As Head of Operations, you will lead a growing Project Management team, providing support for Coventry University Group’s industry focussed projects, and ensuring contractual obligations are fulfilled for a project portfolio currently valued at £30m. You will play a leading role in resource planning and team growth as new contracts are secured.

Additionally, you will be an escalation point for the project management team, and ensure high levels of quality are maintained across the portfolio and implement continuous improvement strategies.

People are taking notice of Coventry University. We have rapidly moved up the league tables and grown to become one of the UK’s biggest, most dynamic, and enterprising higher education institutions. Coventry University is an organisation that’s going places.

The Enterprise & Innovation Organisation (EIO) brings together knowledge exchange, innovation, and commercial activity into one organisation at the heart of the University Group’s strategic ambitions. Driven by innovation and motivated by change, this sector-leading group is growing and challenging accepted practices, and are looking to recruit people with expertise, ambition, and a passion for the difference education and research can make to society.

Enterprise & Innovation is one of the key pillars of the overarching Coventry University Strategy, with the University continuing to be recognised locally, nationally and internationally by strategic business partners and governments as an enterprising and innovative University. The Enterprise & Innovation Organisation is designed to provide a platform through which business and society can leverage the teaching, research and wider expertise of Coventry University Group to create better futures for individuals and organisations.

The Enterprise & Innovation Organisation work across global markets, in particular the UK, SE Asia, Middle East & North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Eastern Europe providing support and expertise to support lifetime learning, stimulate industrial research, develop high-value strategic partnerships, and commercialise new ideas and the current products/knowledge that will also drive our performance against the Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF).

Cultural diversity in our teams bring insights to, and broad experience of, multiple business cultures. It is part of our DNA and we seek it out. This in turn encourages an open-minded approach to the exciting and varied opportunities we develop with our clients and partners to create great projects. We therefore want to discover what you can bring to the EIO through your personal experience, background, and identity as much as through your professional expertise.