Regional Business Manager

Location: Hybrid / Oxford, UK
Job type: Permanent / Full-time
Sector and subsector: Architecture | Architecture
Salary: Competitive Salary

Are you a dynamic leader with strong business and financial acumen, excellent organisational skills, and a proven track record in strategy development and implementation?

We are looking for a Business Manager to work alongside the Regional Partner, Deputy Regional Partner and Studio Leadership Team in the West region to deliver the Regional Business Plan. The Business Manager will oversee day-to-day operations across our region’s four cost centres, ensuring consistency and excellence in the running of our studios and in the efficient delivery of our architectural projects.

The Regional Business Manager will collaborate with the Regional Partner, Deputy Regional Partner, and Studio Leads on the creation and implementation of both strategic and operational initiatives to ensure our regional goals and objectives are successfully achieved, aligned and contributing to Purcell’s national ‘Collective Ambition’ Business Plan.

Purcell is an award‑winning employee‑owned architectural and heritage consultancy practice with a commitment to quality, innovation, and diversity. We have staff of approximately 330 talented architects, designers, heritage consultants and surveyors across 14 offices, in the UK, Hong Kong and Australia. Winners of Architect Employer of the Year 2022.

Collaboration is central to our employee‑ownership culture, providing opportunities to work on some of the finest buildings; from meticulous heritage and conservation schemes to bold contemporary design. We offer a rewarding and supportive environment for personal and professional development and our employee‑owned ethos empowers everyone to use their voice. We believe in creating an equitable and inclusive culture, founded on our values, which celebrates knowledge sharing and our successes, to build an inspiring work environment.

It is our distinctive employee‑owned working culture that has contributed to our status as a World Architecture Top 100 Practice, renowned for our excellence in architecture and heritage consultancy.

Our benefits package includes agile, flexible and hybrid working (a minimum of 3 days in office, up to 2 days WFH), annual leave increasing with long service, life assurance, study sponsorship with paid study leave, sabbaticals, employee assistance programme, season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, virtual GP service, subscription fees, company day out, a volunteering scheme and enhanced learning & development opportunities.

• Collaborate with RP, dRP and Studio Leads to define and implement strategic goals for the region and studios that foster growth and innovation, translating objectives into day‑to‑day action.
• Provide insights and recommendations on how the region operates to align regional strategies with broader organisational objectives, ensuring the regional business plan supports the national plan (Collective Ambition). Oversee KPI’s on behalf of the West Region Leadership Team.
• Ensure regional studios have a balanced structure comprising technical and administrative staff of appropriate levels of skill and experience required to deliver current and future workload and key support functions are covered.
• Monitor and support performance management of individuals alongside Partners, Associate Partners and Line Managers. Identify, encourage and address learning and career development opportunities within the objectives of the West Region Business Plan.
• Forecast recruitment requirements, ensuring we have the highest calibre of people for each role. Work with RP, dRP and Studio Leads to identify top talent and skills gaps, and where necessary determine requirements for regional structural changes.
• Maintain relationships with key stakeholders, clients, and industry leaders.
• Identify regional trends and patterns that require Main Board attention, preparing and presenting through reports and presentations.
• Keep employees engaged, motivated and working effectively and efficiently.
• Encourage positive initiatives and team‑building activities.