Role Level

L7 - Director / VP

Dynamic leader, focussing on achieving company goals, growing talent and execution. Significant management and leadership experience, managing managers and multiple teams.

Drives broader organisational efforts around culture, work and values. Acts as a cultural ambassador both within and outside of Elvie.

Elvie Values

Leads the direction and activities of multiple functional areas through subordinate Heads of/Leads and Managers who have responsibility for the successful operation of assigned areas.
Recognised as an influential leader, with matrix leadership skills who is able to expertly lead and motivate individuals and teams that they do not directly line manage.
Proactively nutures the talent of senior people in their function. Solid understanding of people management strategies and how to develop leaders in their function to be successful.

People Management

Able to plan and lead large change programmes, effectively managing and supporting their function and wider teams through change, ambiguity and complexity.
Strategically plans for how people and processes scale.

Managing Change

Widely recognized as a thought leader in their craft by both internal and external community.
Clear expertise as a manager, leader and operator.

Craft Knowledge

Strategic understanding of wider Elvie context and the external environment in which the company operates, including commercial realities.

Elvie Knowledge

Key partner in the development of organisational-level strategy, playing an active role in all stages of the process. Delivers strategic insights and identifies unmet needs, markets or opportunities that the company could pursue.
Partners with the leadership team for the department to provide cohesive direction towards company goals. Translates organisational level strategy in their multi-functional areas, using team OKRs to ensure all teams under their leadership are pulling in the same direction.

Planning and Strategy

Applies extensive knowledge of theories and best practice to direct and guide the development of new ideas, approaches, projects and policies both within own craft/function and across Elvie. Formulation of ideas requires a longer term view which takes account of strategic goals and objectives.
Implements company wide policies and practices.

Procedures and Practices

Works consistently with abstract ideas or situations across functional areas of the business. Able to assess and assimilate complex data and and intangible variables to identify fundamental issues, providing strategy and direction for multiple functional areas.
Leads large strategic projects that support the drive of key commercial and cultural initiatives internally and externally and may affect Elvie's long-term success.

Scope and Complexity

Leads team(s) to solve highly complex, strategic company-wide matters.
Formulates strategic solutions based on a longer-term view, taking into account Elvie's strategy, goals and objectives.
Partners with Exec to make resolve critical organisational issues, which involves challenging decision-making whereby hard trade off decisions need to be made at a total Elvie level.

Problem Solving and Judgement

Impeccable track record of delivering improvements and impact within own department and the wider business. Makes real change in how Elvie delivers its business.

Reliability and Delivery

Anticipates external factors that could influence organisational strategies and position in the market.
Resilient and agile in the face of adversity and change.

Anticipation

Develops proven strategy, structure and processes that helps their team achieve outstanding results with clear understanding of context and goals.

Efficiency and Productivity

Highly autonomous in leading their function. Makes key strategic decisions for a function/multiple functions and helps to influence the strategic decisions of the Exec.
Responsible and accountable for negotiating and making strategic decisions with major external partners.

Independence

Trusted partner to the Exec who maintains well-developed relationships with senior leaders both internally and externally. Leads relationships with high profile partners, stakeholders and supppliers and creates formal networks with key decision makers.
External spokesperson for Elvie on key issues.

Collaboration and Interaction

Influences organisational level policy and strategy based on communication strategies and persuasion skills. Recognized as an influential leader.
Leads conversations about the direction of their function and drives consensus to the adoption of this direction. Confidently articulates vision and direction for the team that excites and inspires, the team, senior leaders and partners.

Communication and Influence

Actively promotes the giving and receiving of feedback to improve the effectiveness of others. Able to deliver difficult feedback constructively, including upwards.