Oxygen House - Candidate Pack

Role Description
The Board now wishes to appoint a General Manager for Oxygen House Limited to lead the company’s
activities, develop its expertise, and help the wider Group achieve its ambitions of further growth and
best-in-class service delivery. In this next phase, embedding sustainability across all areas of Group
activity is going to be of particular importance. Oxygen House has set an ambition to reach Net Zero
Greenhouse Gas emissions by 2030.
Reporting to the Board of Directors, the newly created position of General Manager will provide
Oxygen House Limited with overall leadership and direction. They will help to define Oxygen House’s
future agenda, and then inspire the wider team to make it a reality.
Key priorities for the role will include:
Sustainability
• creating a clear overarching sustainability strategy for the Group, applying rigorous and consistent
criteria that cover everything from what the building offers in its canteen through to employee
commuting;
• positioning and cultivating the Oxygen House brand as a thought leader and influencer in
sustainability and ethical business practice and investment;
• developing an expert and progressive knowledge base about sustainability within the team and across
the Group’s businesses;
• continually expanding the company’s insight and capability in this area;
• acting as a key influencer in championing the sustainability journey, both within the Group and
externally.
People and Culture
• ensuring the structure and resourcing of the company is designed to both achieve its ambition and
create opportunity for its people;
• creating an organisational culture that
• “cares, about our mission and about each other”
• “creates a framework for our people to achieve best in class”
• “is always learning”
• “is diverse”
• “has pace”
• “is adaptive and agile”
• “encourages ownership, initiative, collaboration, openness and trust”
• “is engaging”
• “provides effective succession planning at all levels”
Strategic Direction
• working with the Board and the team to review the company’s strategic and operational position;
• creating a long-term Strategic Plan;
• ensuring strategic planning encompasses the Group’s impact and people ambitions, as well as its
commercial, operational and financial objectives.