Early Years Operations Manager & Area Manager
Skills
Early Childhood EducationEarly DevelopmentOperational PlanningOperations ManagementStrategic PlanningEYFSSafeguarding
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Experience managing multiple nursery settings or similar multi-site operations
- Strong understanding of EYFS safeguarding and Ofsted requirements
- Commercial awareness including occupancy budgets and workforce planning
- Excellent coaching and people leadership skills
- Confidence influencing and building relationships with a range of stakeholders
- Collaborative positive and solutions-focused approach
- Ability to balance operational priorities while maintaining exceptional quality
Nice to have
- Experienced multi-site leader
- People developer
- High-performing team builder
- Collaborative
- Positive
- Solutions-focused
Day to day
- Lead multiple nursery settings across a defined geographical footprint, ensuring strong operational performance and consistent quality across the group.
- Coach and develop nursery leaders, building confident high-performing teams that deliver an exceptional start in life for children.
- Drive continuous improvement through strategic planning, commercial awareness, and a collaborative approach to safeguarding, EYFS and Ofsted standards.
Hiring process
- Email for a confidential conversation