Strategic Investment Performance Manager

Greater Manchester Combined Authority; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

The Greater Manchester Combined Authority is recruiting a Strategic Investment Performance Manager to establish a new investment monitoring function and provide a single view of activity, performance and outcomes across a £2bn Good Growth Fund portfolio.

You will shape the function from the ground up, designing its operating model, monitoring framework, systems, governance and reporting arrangements, and produce meaningful insight for senior leaders and committees.

Qualifications

• Significant experience establishing or managing complex programmes or functions.
• Ability to translate complex information into clear insight for diverse audiences.
• Strong governance, assurance and reporting skills.

Responsibilities

• Shape the investment monitoring function from the ground up, including operating model and governance.
• Design and implement monitoring framework, data processes and reporting arrangements.
• Produce meaningful insights for senior leaders, boards and committees.
• Collaborate across GMCA, local authorities, delivery partners and funding recipients to standardise data and reporting.

Skills

Programme management

Analytical thinking

Communication

Relationship building

Job description

Base: Tootal Buildings, 56 Oxford Street, Manchester M1 6EU

Your role

This is an exciting opportunity to shape how Greater Manchester understands and demonstrates the impact of its investment. As Strategic Investment Performance Manager, you will establish a new investment monitoring function, creating a single, trusted view of activity, performance and outcomes across our investment portfolio, including the £2bn Good Growth Fund.

As our devolution journey continues and our investment programmes grow in scale and ambition, robust evidence, insight and performance management matter more than ever. This role will help us understand, demonstrate and maximise the impact of investment across Greater Manchester, supporting better decision making and stronger outcomes for communities across all ten boroughs.

You will shape the function from the ground up, designing its operating model, monitoring framework, systems, governance and reporting arrangements. You will introduce clear and efficient data processes and produce meaningful insight for senior leaders, boards and committees. Your work will go beyond reporting numbers, explaining what our investment is achieving for Greater Manchester's people, places and economy while identifying risks, opportunities and emerging trends.

Working across GMCA, local authorities, delivery partners and funding recipients, you will build shared approaches that improve data quality, consistency and accountability while making reporting simpler and more proportionate.

About you

We are looking for an experienced programme, performance or monitoring professional who can turn ambition into a practical, trusted and sustainable function. You will bring significant experience of establishing or managing complex programmes or functions and of designing performance, monitoring or reporting frameworks within a complex environment.

You will be comfortable translating complex information into clear insight for different audiences. Strong programme management, analytical, communication and relationship building skills will be important, along with the ability to develop robust governance and assurance arrangements.

We welcome applicants from different sectors and backgrounds who can demonstrate relevant transferable experience. You do not need to meet every desirable criterion to apply.

About us

The Greater Manchester Combined Authority brings together the city-region's ten councils and key partners including Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service and Transport for Greater Manchester to deliver the Greater Manchester Strategy. We value the diversity of our employees and encourage applications from all suitably qualified individuals. Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the process.