Group Director - Insight, Strategy & Change

Group Director, Insight, Strategy & Change

Location: Flexible/Hybrid
Contract: Permanent | Full-time (37.5 hours per week)
Salary: £140,000 to £180,000 plus £7,400 cash car allowance
Working pattern: Home-based with regular travel between London and Bradford

Shape strategy. Drive transformation. Deliver impact.

Anchor is seeking an exceptional strategic leader to join our senior leadership team in this newly created role as Group Director, Insight, Strategy & Change.

Reporting to the Executive Director, Resources, this role will lead our corporate strategy, insight, business intelligence, performance, policy and transformation functions, ensuring Anchor has the evidence, capability and organisational focus needed to deliver its long-term ambitions.

Working closely with the Executive Team, Board and senior leaders, you will play a pivotal role in shaping organisational priorities, driving evidence-based decision-making and ensuring transformation activity delivers measurable benefits for customers, colleagues and the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development and delivery of Anchor's corporate strategy, ensuring organisational priorities translate into clear plans and measurable outcomes.
• Provide strategic insight and challenge to the Executive Team and Board on performance, opportunities, risks and future direction.
• Ensure high-quality insight, intelligence and performance information informs decision-making across the organisation.
• Drive a culture of evidence-based decision-making, continuous improvement and organisational effectiveness.
• Provide strategic leadership for Anchor's transformation portfolio, ensuring programmes deliver sustainable benefits and support delivery of strategic priorities.
• Lead the development of policy positions and strategic responses to external developments affecting Anchor and the wider sector.
• Build influential relationships with key stakeholders, partners and sector bodies to strengthen Anchor's reputation and impact.
• Lead and develop high-performing teams, fostering a collaborative, inclusive and values-led culture.

About You

• Degree-level qualification or equivalent experience.
• Relevant senior-level professional qualification or demonstrable equivalent expertise
• Evidence of continuing professional development would be an advantage.
• Significant senior leadership experience within a large and complex organisation.
• Experience leading corporate strategy, transformation or Business intelligence functions.
• Proven track record of delivering large-scale organisational change.
• Experience supporting Boards and Executive Teams.
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams across strategy, insight and programme delivery.
• Experience translating strategy into measurable organisational priorities and delivery plans.
• Experience within regulated sectors such as housing, care, health, or public services, desirable.

Why Join Anchor?

This is an opportunity to help shape the future of England's largest not-for-profit provider of housing and care for people in later life. You'll join a purpose-driven organisation at a significant point in its journey, helping deliver strategic priorities that improve the lives of customers and colleagues across the country.

If you are a strategic, influential and forward-thinking leader with a passion for delivering meaningful change, we'd love to hear from you.

Proof of the right to work in the UK will be required from the successful candidate in accordance with UK Home Office requirements before any offer of employment can be confirmed.

Where permission to work in the UK is required, applicants will need to hold and maintain the appropriate immigration status or visa for the duration of their employment.

Anchor – a great place to work

At Anchor, we're united by a shared purpose: helping people create a home where they love living in later life. As England's largest not-for-profit provider of housing and care for older people, every pound we make or save is reinvested into our residents, services, and colleagues.

Our values of being Accountable, Respectful, Courageous and Honest shape everything we do. They guide how we work together, support our residents and customers, and create an environment where everyone can thrive.

We're committed to helping our colleagues succeed both professionally and personally. Through our dedicated Being Well programme, you'll have access to a wide range of wellbeing, financial and lifestyle benefits designed to support you at every stage of your career and life.

What you can expect from us

• Health and wellbeing support, including free eye tests and flu jabs, access to a digital gym, virtual physiotherapy, a clinical advice line, and digital GP services, giving you practical support for your physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.
• Generous pension scheme, where you contribute between 4% and 8% and Anchor matches or exceeds your contribution, with employer contributions of up to 10%, plus a pension transfer service, retirement planning support and free life cover.
• The opportunity to buy or sell up to one week of annual leave each year, giving you greater flexibility to balance work and personal commitments.
• A free Blue Light Card giving you access to Shopping, travel, technology and lifestyle discounts.
• Electric car scheme, offering eligible colleagues access to a brand-new electric or plug-in hybrid vehicle through salary sacrifice, with insurance, servicing, maintenance and breakdown cover included. Subject to eligibility criteria.
• Ongoing learning and development, Leadership Pathways resources and opportunities to progress your career.

Celebrating diversity, celebrating you

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.  

We are proud to have an inclusion group for our residents, as well as colleague networks for disability, LGBTQ+, race and ethnicity, and unpaid carers. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members.  We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a Gold Standard Inclusive Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, LGBTQ+ Housing Pledge Pioneers and members of the Age Friendly Employer Pledge.