Corporate Planning Manager

NHS; Leeds; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in Leeds is seeking a motivated Corporate Planning Manager to join their Planning and Business Development team. This role is pivotal in improving patient care through strategic planning and leading significant business developments. You will collaborate with senior management to ensure that all business cases meet high standards and align with the Trust's multi-year plan. A strong knowledge of NHS policies and effective change management practices are essential. This position offers an annual salary of £64,455 to £74,896 with flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Significant knowledge and experience of the NHS.
• Understanding of current NHS changes and developments.
• Experience working within an acute trust is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead business planning for the CSU and ensure high standards.
• Coordinate corporate functions to achieve unified planning.
• Drive business development exceeding £1 million.

Skills

NHS policy knowledge

Change Management theory

Strategic planning

Education

Degree or equivalent management qualification

Managerial qualification to master's level

Job description

Job Summary

We are seeking to recruit a motivated Corporate Planning Manager to join the Planning and Business Development team working across the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trusts main and peripheral sites.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is a complex organisation, and our aim is to deliver the highest quality service for our patients, and we are consistently looking to improve our services in order to do so. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in making this happen for our patients.

This corporate planning manager post will have split responsibilities, part of the post will be responsible for delivering healthcare planning for specific CSUs whilst the other part of the post will support the Director of Healthcare Planning in developing and implementing the Trusts multi‑year plan.

This role offers excellent opportunities to build upon skills in service transformation and redesign across a range of services whilst taking the planning lead on all major reconfigurations currently underway within the organisation.

As Corporate Planning Manager, you will work at senior management level alongside Clinical Directors and Assistant Directors of Operations and to make a visible contribution to the business success of CSUs across the Trust.

You will need a strong focus on improving patient care through the development and delivery of local business plans and long‑term complex strategic projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide the professional lead on business planning in each CSU and ensure that business cases for development/service change are of the highest standard, in the correct format and seek approvals as relevant to the case requirements.
• Take a coordinating role within each CSU in order to bring together the work of the corporate functions finance/HR/planning so resulting in joined up thinking.
• Take the lead and drive business base development, often in excess of £1 million; sponsor all non‑clinical building and engineering schemes and monitor progress to time and cost on behalf of the CSU, liaising directly with the CSU General Manager on a regular basis.
• Work with each CSU to develop cases of need for complex medical and scientific equipment and for IT systems.
• Support the Director of Healthcare Planning in developing the Trust’s multi‑year plan, incorporating demand and capacity modelling to ensure sustainable services and alignment with national and local priorities.
• Coordinate governance and reporting of the plan throughout the year, providing assurance to the Board and committees through robust performance monitoring, progress updates and risk management.
• Engage and collaborate with clinical and corporate teams, ensuring strategic priorities are translated into actionable programmes and that stakeholders are aligned and informed throughout the planning cycle.

Qualifications & Experience

• Essential Experience – Significant knowledge and experience of the NHS with an understanding of current changes and developments and particular understanding of acute health services; A highly developed knowledge of NHS policy.
• Desirable Experience – Experience of working within an acute trust.
• Essential Qualifications – Degree or equivalent management qualification.
• Desirable Qualifications – Managerial qualification to master’s level of experience or equivalent.
• Essential Skills & Behaviours – A theoretical and practical knowledge of NHS planning systems and frameworks, underpinned by significant relevant experience, to a degree which enables the postholder to influence organisational policy.
• Desirable Skills & Behaviours – Change Management theory.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and a Disclosure and Barring Service check will be required.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website. From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here: Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

Employer Details

Leeds Teaching Hospitals – St. James's University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds, LS9 7TF.

Employment Details

Band 8b – Salary £64,455 to £74,896 a year – Permanent, Full‑time, Flexible working – Reference number C9298‑EST‑386 – Job locations: St. James's University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds, LS9 7TF.

Application Deadline

Details posted: 15 January 2026.