Business Planning Partner

Page Personnel; Birmingham; A distancia; GBP 83.000 - 120.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Daily rate inside IR35

Home based

6 month contract

Descripción de la vacante

Page Personnel is recruiting an Interim Business Planning Partner in the West Midlands to support planning and performance reporting across change initiatives. You will work with stakeholders to ensure plans align with strategic objectives and deliver meaningful insights for decision-making.

The role requires strong analytical ability, experience in planning and performance management, and the ability to advise senior leaders.

Formación

• Experience in applied knowledge and understanding of 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, performance measurement and reporting.

Responsabilidades

• 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.

Conocimientos

Planning & performance management

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder engagement

Governance & gateway reviews

Project environment experience

Analytical skills

Educación

Relevant qualification in planning/performance

Descripción del empleo

• Interim Business Planning Partner . West Midlands
• 6 months contract. Inside IR35. Immediate start.

About Our Client

The organisation operates in the Public Sector in the Midlands.

Job 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.

The Successful Applicant

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

What's on Offer

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