Business Planning Partner

Michael Page Technology; Birmingham; Remote; GBP 83,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home based

Travel west midlands

Job summary

Michael Page Technology is seeking an Interim Business Planning Partner to collaborate with stakeholders to ensure effective planning, governance, and performance reporting across change initiatives. The role emphasizes strategic and operational advisory, with strong emphasis on coordination, challenge, and delivering meaningful insights for decision-making.

The position is home-based with ad-hoc travel to the West Midlands, offering a 6-month contract and a daily rate; IR35 status depends on

Qualifications

• Experience in business planning and performance management methodologies.
• Significant planning and performance reporting experience with a relevant qualification.
• Ability to think strategically and systemically.
• Experience advising clients to enable planning and reporting.
• Experience working in a project environment.
• Strong ability to build collaborative relationships with stakeholders.
• Coaching leaders to develop planning capabilities.
• Excellent analytical skills with data technology proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Support planning and performance reporting across change initiatives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure plans meet standards and governance.
• Provide governance advice and gateway guidance.
• Develop integrated plans covering deliverables, resources, capabilities and dependencies.
• Ensure plans and reports are accurate, up-to-date and transparent.
• Facilitate gateway reviews, change requests and project closure activities.
• Deliver performance insights to support decision-making.

Skills

Planning & performance

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical skills

Data analytics

Education

Relevant qualification

Tools

Data visualization

Governance tools

Job description

Interim Business Planning Partner, you will work closely with stakeholders to ensure business and change initiatives are effectively planned, prioritised, and aligned to strategic objectives. You will provide planning, governance, and performance reporting support, helping leaders make informed decisions through robust insight, quality assurance, and cross-functional collaboration.

Client Details

The organisation operates in the Public Sector in the Midlands.

Description

• This role supports effective planning and performance reporting across change and business initiatives. Working closely with stakeholders, you will help ensure plans meet agreed standards, provide quality assurance, and deliver meaningful performance insights to support decision‐making.
• As a trusted business planning partner, you will build strong relationships across the organisation, enabling coordinated planning, effective reporting, and successful delivery of strategic priorities.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure service delivery and change plans remain aligned to strategic objectives, providing challenge where needed.
• Support prioritisation and decision-making through planning analysis, performance insights, and reporting.
• Provide advice and guidance on planning, performance reporting, governance, and gateway requirements.
• Partner with delivery leads and sponsors to develop and maintain integrated plans covering deliverables, resources, capabilities, and dependencies.
• Ensure plans and performance reporting remain accurate, up to date, and transparent.
• Facilitate organisational assessments of demand, capacity, capability, risks, and impacts to support effective planning and prioritisation.
• Identify opportunities to improve planning and performance reporting practices.
• Conduct quality assurance reviews to ensure compliance with agreed standards and governance.
• Support planning gateway reviews, change requests, performance reporting, and project closure activities.

Profile

Key skills/knowledge and experience

• Experience of applied knowledge and understanding of business planning and performance management methodologies
• Significant business planning and performance reporting experience and holding a relevant qualification
• Ability to think strategically and systemically
• Significant experience of providing both strategic and operational advice and decision‐making support to clients to enable effective planning and performance measurement and reporting
• Significant experience of working within a project environment
• Confident applying planning and performance measurement skills and knowledge
• Able to build highly effective and collaborative working relationships.
• Able to coach senior leaders to develop their planning and performance management capability
• Excellent analytical skills
• Confident with digital and data technologies to manage performance and planning information products and services to the organisation

Job Offer

• Interim Business Planning Partner
• Daily rate inside IR35- dependent on the level of experience.
• Home based - adhoc travel -west midlands
• 6 month contract

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