We now have a very exciting opportunity in our newly created Access Health & Social Care (HSC) Division. Access is organised on a divisional basis, where each division typically targets a particular industry vertical and has its own MD and leadership team representing functions such as Development, Product Management, Sales, Marketing, Finance and Services. HSC are the largest provider of care software in the UK and continue to grow with new products and new markets. As the Director of Development for the Division, you will lead an engineering team of 70+ people to deliver on our vision and growth strategy.

Day-to-day:
• Part of the Divisional Product Development Leadership Team, responsible for the management of the software development & delivery for the entire business, contributing to the achievement of growth and client satisfaction targets. Taking a holistic view to support Corporate as well as Divisional objectives.
• Use in-depth understanding and appreciation of agile software development best practices, customer problems, collaboration through virtualised/distributed teams and the competitive landscape along with research and metrics to inform decisions & approaches.
• Shape & manage the delivery of solutions for the Division, formulating pragmatic technical strategies, robust processes, credible & reliable forecasts, team development/progression and operational excellence within the Divisional Development teams.
• Define and communicate a compelling vision and strategy to the divisional Development teams, ensuring a progressive, reliable and efficient production capability, aligned to the divisional roadmaps and commercial goals.
• Significant contribution to increasing the profitability of the divisional portfolio by developing innovative new products and maximising the efficacy of the wider divisional Development team(s). Accountability towards divisional P&L.
• Work with Product Management and the other Heads of Development to understand the company portfolio, contribute to the overall product strategy, integration and cross sell opportunities.
• Sponsor all functional development projects within the Division.
• Responsible for the management, development, progression and operational capability of various divisional Development teams, including training, appraisals, employee engagement, discipline, recruitment, retention & attrition.
• Lead, motivate, develop and manage the performance of the Divisional PD teams to ensure that they have the skills and support to achieve their potential and meet the company's needs.
• May work with the Chief Technology Officer or senior managers on acquisition opportunities for the Division, including analysis of technical landscape, production processes, technical due diligence and post-acquisition integration to agreed set goals.

About you:
• You demonstrate excellent leadership, motivation and team development skills, able to cross boundaries and collaboratively drive excellence through positive change. Your cohesive leadership ensures development teams are aligned across the department
• You are an excellent communicator able to communicate at all levels and adopt a flexible & consultative approach.
• You can think strategically whilst achieving results in immediate area of responsibility and drive strategic and change initiatives to success.
• You can think creatively and exploit best practice, emerging technologies and fast-paced innovation.
• You are able to adapt to a changing business and marketplace, demonstrable ability to takes a holistic view to support Corporate as well as departmental strategic objectives and underwrites production excellence through KPIs and best practice across the group.
• You are pragmatic, objective, resilient, transferrable, balanced, and able to navigate and manage divisional contention to the benefit of the group.

Your core competencies will include:
• Excellent leadership, motivation and team development skills - across multiple teams & locations - able to cross boundaries and collaboratively drive positive change up & down the chain of command.
• Excellent communicator able to communicate at all levels and adopt a flexible & consultative approach.
• Ability to think strategically whilst achieving results in own Divisions with consideration for the wider company strategy and objectives.
• Excellent understanding of software development lifecycle and delivery, and able to deliver complex projects across multiple workstreams to time, budget and quality
• Commercial experience and a sound understanding of agile software development practices in a scaled production environment.
• The ability to adapt to a changing business and marketplace.
• Demonstrable ability to drive operational excellence and efficiency across multiple teams and locations, promoting best practice standards and approaches, effecting change where appropriate to achieve results.
• Collaboration and influence at Senior Management level in order to achieve best results for division and department.

What does Access offer you?
We are a growing software company and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously! We will work with you to carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference.
In addition to our standard benefits of 25 days holiday, a match contributory pension and healthcare you will get:
• A Competitive Salary
• Giving Back/Charity days
• Quarterly Socials
• 6 weeks Sabbaticals (after 6 years of service)
• The Access Group Big Break: our all-expenses paid holiday to Spain