The Alphabet House Nursery Schools
Early Years Operations Manager
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Ready to Lead, Inspire, and Make a Real Difference Across Early Years?
We’re Growing! and We’re Looking for an Exceptional Early Years Operations Manager
We’re looking for an exceptional Early Years Operations Manager to join our Head Office team and take the lead across one of our two regions: East or South East.
This Isn’t a Role Where You Simply Visit Settings, Check a Few Boxes, and Move On.
You’ll be the person who makes the magic happen.
What Will You Be Responsible For?
You’ll have real ownership of your region, including:
- Leading, coaching, and developing Nursery Managers to become confident, capable leaders.
- Overseeing the day-to-day operational performance of your settings.
- Supporting staffing, rotas, recruitment, retention, and workforce planning.
- Monitoring nursery performance, occupancy, quality, and financial success.
- Ensuring every setting is Ofsted-ready, with strong oversight of safeguarding, EYFS, policies, procedures, and compliance.
- Identifying challenges before they become problems and putting effective solutions in place.
- Driving consistency across your region while allowing each nursery to retain its own personality.
- Supporting Managers through difficult situations and making confident decisions under pressure.
- Working closely with our Head Office teams to deliver our wider operational strategy.
- Identifying opportunities for growth and helping our nurseries reach their full potential.
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Who Are We Looking For?
We’re looking for someone who is more than an experienced nursery manager.
You’ll be a natural leader who can walk into a setting, understand what is happening, identify what needs to change, and most importantly, inspire people to make that change.
You’ll need:
- Strong operational experience within early years, ideally with experience overseeing multiple settings.
- Ofsted confidence: you understand what good looks like and know how to prepare teams, managers, and environments for inspection.
- Leadership ability: you can challenge, coach, motivate, and hold Managers accountable while building strong professional relationships.
- Commercial awareness: you understand that great childcare and a successful nursery operation go hand in hand.
- Resilience: because early years can be unpredictable, and we need someone who stays calm when things get busy.
- Organisation and prioritisation: you’ll be managing multiple settings, competing priorities, and lots of moving parts.
- And most importantly, you’ll genuinely care about children, families, and the people who deliver their care every day.
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Why Join Us?
We’re building something special.
As our group continues to grow, this role gives you the opportunity to have a genuine influence on the future of our nurseries, not just one setting, but an entire region.
You’ll be part of our Head Office leadership team, working alongside colleagues across quality, curriculum, safeguarding, people, marketing, finance, and operations.
There is also a clear opportunity to grow with us as the organisation continues to expand.
If you’re ambitious, energetic, commercially minded, and passionate about delivering exceptional early years provision, we’d love to hear from you.
This is your opportunity to lead, develop great leaders, and help create nurseries where children, families, and teams truly thrive.
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