London Business School

Location: London, UK

Salary: Competitive

London Business School is one of the world’s leading business schools. We strive to have a profound impact on the way the world does business and the way business impacts the world. Our academic strength, drives original and provocative business thinking, empowering our people to challenge conventional wisdom in a truly unique academic environment. We shape business practice and transform careers across the globe.

Along with our world class faculty, our departments work hard to ensure that we are continually delivering academic excellence and world-class service to our many students, from our all over the world. Our Degree Education and Career Centre (DECC) department is the largest at the School – a talented group of over 200 staff who work closely with our faculty and wider leadership to ensure our programmes deliver best in class value to our degree students, alongside the highest quality student experience. In an environment of ceaseless change in business, DECC drives the strategic development, change management and academic oversight of all our Masters programmes.

We are now looking for our next Associate Dean of DECC to lead this critical department and its team, ensuring we continue to remain one of the top business schools in the world. Reporting to the Vice Dean, this position will help the School meet its performance targets, deliver an outstanding student programme experience, support students in maximising their employment opportunities, ensure HE/UK regulatory compliance, effectively collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to support delivery and contribute to the School’s overall development.

Our ideal candidate will be an outstanding professional leader with a strong affinity to educational purpose, an understanding of the academic environment and a liking of students. You will bring experience within or an understanding of, premium experiences or brands, combined with a tenacious promotion of a culture of excellence. Candidates will likely bring deep or relatable knowledge and experience of the HE sector and the relevant external environment as well as experience of leading organisation wide change and continuous improvement. Commercial and collaborative, your communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills will be matched by your people leadership skills, with a track record of creating high performing teams in positive working environments.

This is an extraordinary opportunity to make a positive and lasting contribution not just to LBS but to the many thousands of our students and the impact they can have professionally. If you share our vision and values, and you have the leadership skills we need, we would love to hear from you. We are a diverse and inclusive team and welcome applications from candidates from a broad range of backgrounds.

Saxton Bampfylde Ltd is acting as an employment agency advisor to London Business School on this appointment. For further information about the role, including details about how to apply, please visit www.saxbam.com/appointments using reference XAXGD. Alternatively telephone +44 (0)20 7227 0880 (during office hours). Applications should be received by noon on 20th June 2022.