This is an exciting time for a new Managing Director to have a real impact for London & Partners and London.
London is about to launch its new 10-year Growth Plan which sets out how the city will become more prosperous, greener, fairer, and a better capital to the UK.
As the city’s growth agency, London & Partners has a leading role in delivering this Growth Plan. Our mission is to create growth that is inclusive, resilient and sustainable. We do this through our own highly effective programmes and by being infectiously ambitious for our city. We deliver ourselves and inspire everyone who shapes London to work together towards shared ambitions, with pragmatic optimism and a confident story to tell.
London & Partners is setting a new 3-year strategy for 25/26, 26/27 and 27/28. This will define our role in delivering the London Growth Plan, and how we need to change to achieve it.
We start from strong foundations. We are on track to exceed all our outcomes targets in 24/25, including our best year ever for both foreign direct investment and international trade. We have a strong and growing network of commercial partners. London & Partners is a happy team: we were recently ranked 3rd best not-for-profit to work for in the UK. Our Senior Leadership Team is stable, united and ambitious.
The Managing Director of Operations will play a key role in delivering our new strategy. In particular:
- A strategic priority is to use data and technology to scale our impact. This MD will oversee our first data and technology strategy, and build a team to deliver it.
- The London office will move to a new HQ in 2026. Our ambition is to create a civic centre for entrepreneurs and investors, including public and event spaces. This MD will lead on the search for a new location, commercial negotiation, fit-out and move.
- We anticipate a period of change in London’s devolution settlement with central Government, as part of wider English devolution. This may have implications for London & Partners’ mandate and funding. As an Executive Director and Company Secretary, this MD will ensure that we have the right corporate structure and governance to deliver effectively for London.
We are looking for a collegiate, inclusive and enterprising leader. Our new Managing Director of Operations will have a track record of leading operational functions in a similarly sized organisation in either the private or public sectors. They will be sensitive to the needs of a mission-driven social enterprise operating in London and 13 cities around the world. They will have successfully led significant operations transformation programmes. Importantly, they will share our mission, our values and our ambition for London.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Laura Citron OBE
CEO
London & Partners