Chief Strategy & Planning Officer

Alumni Global; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking a Chief Strategy & Planning Officer in Lancashire to lead the development and delivery of a long-term health strategy. This role involves providing system-level leadership, ensuring strategies align with population needs, and managing large scale change programs. Ideal candidates will have significant board-level experience in strategic planning within complex health environments. This is a vital opportunity to shape health services for a diverse community, with a competitive salary package offered.

Qualifications

• Proven board-level or senior executive experience in strategic planning or system transformation.
• Able to manage large budgets and resources effectively.
• Strong track record in leading large-scale change programmes.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and delivery of long-term strategy for the ICB.
• Ensure strategy reflects population needs and reduces health inequalities.
• Provide leadership in strategic commissioning and performance planning.

Skills

Strategic planning

Stakeholder engagement

Resource allocation

Change management

Performance planning

Job description

Chief Strategy & Planning Officer
Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB
Salary: Competitive | Location: Preston

Are you a visionary leader ready to shape the future of health and care across a large and diverse population? Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB, commissioning services for approximately 1.8 million people, seeks a dynamic Chief Strategy & Planning Officer to join our executive team at a pivotal moment of system transformation.

Responsibilities

Lead the development, articulation and delivery of the ICB’s long-term system-wide strategy and planning function, translating ambition into effective, sustainable action for our population.

Work across organisational and sector boundaries, with partner local authorities, social care, education, voluntary, community and faith sectors, and providers, to ensure our strategy reflects population needs, reduces health inequalities, and delivers value for money.

Provide system-level leadership in strategic commissioning, future service configuration, resource allocation, and performance planning, ensuring that plans are realistic, deliverable, and aligned with regulatory and policy frameworks.

Support transformation through data-driven insight, population health intelligence, and long-term planning, anticipating system challenges and opportunities, and ensuring the ICB responds proactively to changing needs.

Qualifications

We are looking for a senior leader with proven board-level or senior executive experience in strategic planning, system transformation, or commissioning within the health and care sector or similar environment, with a strong track record of leading large-scale change programmes, developing and delivering strategy in politically and operationally complex environments. With exceptional strategic thinking and planning skills and the ability to manage and prioritise large budgets and resources, as well as outstanding stakeholder engagement, partnership-building and influencing skills across a diverse system of health, social care, voluntary/community sectors, and local authorities; and able to bring a values-driven approach to leadership with the population’s needs and wellbeing at the centre.

This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of health and care for an entire region, to lead system-wide change, embed new models of care, and help create resilient, equitable health services for Lancashire and South Cumbria.

If you are motivated by meaningful challenge, system-wide impact, and the chance to lead with purpose we encourage you to explore this opportunity further and contact our advisors at Alumni Global for a confidential discussion – Rabiya Ali or Simon Green on [phone] or via [e-mail], and see Alumniglobal.com/job/LSC for further information.