Business Planning Partner

Michael Page; Birmingham; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Adhoc travel

6 month contract

Job summary

Michael Page is seeking an Interim Business Planning Partner to work with stakeholders across the Public Sector in the Midlands. You will ensure plans align to strategic objectives, provide governance, and deliver robust performance insights to support decision-making.

This role involves developing integrated plans, advising on planning and gateway requirements, and delivering timely performance reporting with cross-functional collaboration.

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 providing strategic and operational advice to enable planning and performance reporting.
• Experience working within a project environment.
• Confident applying planning and performance measurement skills.
• Able to build collaborative relationships.
• Able to coach senior leaders to develop planning and performance capability.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Comfort with digital/data technologies to manage performance information.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain integrated plans covering deliverables, resources, capabilities and dependencies.
• Provide planning, governance and performance reporting support for informed decision-making.
• Support gateway reviews and change requests, ensuring compliance with standards.
• Partner with delivery leads and sponsors to align plans and reporting.
• Ensure plans and reporting are accurate, up-to-date and transparent.
• Facilitate assessments of demand, capacity, capability, risks and impacts.
• Identify opportunities to improve planning and reporting practices.
• Conduct quality assurance reviews to ensure governance compliance.

Skills

Business planning

Performance reporting

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Data literacy

Coaching senior leaders

Governance

Education

Relevant qualification in planning/performance management

Tools

Dashboard tools

Data visualization software

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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