Customer Services Performance Delivery Lead

• Details
• Reference number
• 475667
• Salary
• £61,923
• Minimum 30 hours per week
• A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

• Job grade
• Grade 7
• Contract type
• Permanent
• Business area
• HMLR - Service Delivery - Customer Services Group
• Type of role
• Operational Delivery
• Working pattern
• Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time
• Number of jobs available
• 1
• Contents

• Location
• About the job
• Benefits
• Things you need to know
• Apply and further information

Location

Swansea, Wales, SA7 9FQ

About the job

Job summary

The Customer Services Performance Delivery lead is a key senior leadership role within Customer Services Group (CSG), responsible for leading and developing CSG's central performance, insight, services and Project control functions. The postholder will work across the whole of Service Delivery to translate insight into action, improving customer outcomes, operational performance, organisational resilience and delivery of strategic priorities.

Passionate about people and public service excellence, the individual will be accountable for establishing a high-performing operational function that brings together workforce planning and resource modelling, business intelligence and analytics, benchmarking, quality and complaints insight, risk integration and project coordination. This role directly supports the HMLR 2026+ Strategy of improving the experience for our customers through embedding a customer resolution focus and improving the quality of all services we provide.

The post holder will provide visible and inclusive leadership across a national team and through the effective use of data, customer insight and operational intelligence, will help ensure CSG delivers consistent, efficient and customer-focused services that support organisational priorities and service standards.

The successful candidate will champion evidence-based decision making, enabling leaders to manage using live performance data rather than hindsight, removing complexity and maximising the use of technology. They will foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and operational excellence, ensuring that customer needs, a dedication to a high service quality, customer accessibility and business outcomes remain at the centre of decision making.

Job description

Main duties include;

• Lead and bring together key individuals across Customer Services service line, setting a clear vision, building collective capability and fostering an inclusive, high-performing culture that reflects HMLR's values, leadership expectations and commitment to outstanding customer service.
• Lead workforce planning, resource modelling and forecasting activity across CSG, ensuring leaders have the insight required to make effective decisions on deployment, resilience, skills and future service demand.
• Build and maintain effective partnerships with the Service Delivery Resource & Planning team, working collaboratively to align planned activities with operational priorities and deliver improved service outcomes.
• Lead monitoring and reporting against key performance indicators, critical success factors, business benefits and improvement commitments, ensuring clear ownership, accountability and delivery against agreed outcomes for CSG aligned with Service Delivery Performance Leads reporting requirements.
• Work collaboratively with Heads of Service Delivery, senior leaders and corporate partners to translate organisational objectives into measurable performance outcomes, ensuring decisions are informed by evidence, customer insight and operational intelligence to achieve Service Delivery plan objectives.
• Develop and embed a single source of truth for CSG performance, bringing together operational, customer, quality, complaints, workforce and risk information to support evidence-based decision making and informed leadership action.
• Please see attached job description for full information.

Person specification

To be successful in this role you will have:

• The ability to develop and maintain executive-level dashboards and performance, Head of Service, operational and governance reporting that provide a single source of truth and support effective decision-making by operational and senior leaders.
• Experience of leading performance reporting, business intelligence, workforce planning, forecasting or operational control functions in a large and complex operational environment, using data and developing dashboards/systems to improve service, customer experience and organisational outcomes.
• Experience of analysing operational, Voice of the Customer insight, quality, complaints and workforce data to identify trends, risks, root causes and opportunities, and using insight to inform practical recommendations and service improvement.
• Knowledge of quality assurance, complaints insight, root cause analysis and operational risk management, and the ability to integrate these into a coherent performance and assurance framework.
• Experience of supporting, influencing and constructively challenging senior leadership teams, building confidence, transparency and accountability in how performance is managed and reported.
• Strong organisational and delivery skills, with the resilience to manage competing priorities, complex operational challenges and improvement activity at pace.
• Demonstrable people leadership skills, including building capability, coaching others, leading change and influencing beyond direct line management to create a high-performing, evidence-led culture.

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Ability to develop and maintain executive-level dashboards and performance, Head of Service, operational and governance reporting that provide a single source of truth and support effective decision-making by operational and senior leaders

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £61,923, HM Land Registry contributes £17,939 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides .

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/land-registry/about/recruitment#what-hm-land-registry-can-offer-you

#WeAreHMLR

At HM Land Registry our vision is a world leading property market as part of a thriving economy and a sustainable future. We are unique in terms of the economic and social impacts of our work, our ability to make a positive difference to the lives of our customers, our sense of mission, and our great people. They are the foundation of all we have achieved and all we aspire to in the future. We want our people to feel proud to work for HM Land Registry and able to fulfil their full potential.

We have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development, and flexible ways of working. We offer competitive pay and annual leave, attractive pension options and a wide range of other benefits.

• We have integrity – we value honesty, trust and doing the right thing in the right way.
• We drive innovation – we are forward-thinking, embrace change and are continually improving our processes.
• We are professional – we value and grow our knowledge and professional expertise.
• We give assurance – we guarantee our services and provide confidence to the property market.

You can find more information on our rewards package on our website.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Experience and Technical skills.

How to apply;

Please complete the short application and upload your CV to clearly demonstrate;

• Leadership of performance, business intelligence, workforce planning, forecasting or operational control functions.
• Experience operating within large, complex operational environments.
• Delivery of service improvement through the use of data, insight and performance reporting.
• Experience supporting and influencing senior leaders.
• People leadership, including leading teams, coaching colleagues and driving change.
• Delivery of operational improvement, transformation or organisational change.

Complete the essential technical question which will test (in no more than 250 words),

• Your ability to develop and maintain executive-level dashboards and performance, Head of Service, operational and governance reporting that provide a single source of truth and support effective decision-making by operational and senior leaders

Complete the Personal Statement section (in no more than 750 words), describing how you have:

• Led performance reporting, business intelligence, workforce planning, forecasting or operational control activity.
• Used operational, customer, quality or workforce insight to identify trends, risks and opportunities.
• Integrated performance, assurance, quality, complaints or risk information to support service improvement and informed decision making.

Please focus on specific examples, your personal contribution and measurable outcomes.

In the event of a high number of applications, we may sift on the CV alone as the lead criteria.

The sift will take place shortly after the closing date.

Interviews are expected to take place in person in the Swansea Office, w/c 14 September 2026. The interview may include a pre-prepared presentation or task, and questions around the key criteria relating to the role.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

Apply and further information

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Gary Elsey
• Email : Gary.elsey@landregistry.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : hrresourcingteam2@landregistry.gov.uk

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance to the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, please email hrresourcingteam2@landregistry.gov.uk in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from HM Land Registry then you may take your complaint to the Civil Service Commission: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/making-complaint/