VP Strategy & Performance - Group Property

Rolls-Royce; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm is looking for a Vice President of Strategy & Planning for Group Property. This Senior Leadership position involves managing a team to implement strategic initiatives aligning with Group objectives and performance metrics. Ideal candidates should have experience in financial reporting, stakeholder management, and developing budget plans. The role offers a competitive salary, excellent benefits, and a hybrid work model based in Derby or Indianapolis.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Bonus

Employee support assistance

Employee discounts

Qualifications

• Experience managing large-scale programmes and projects.
• Proven experience in capital planning and risk management.
• Senior stakeholder management experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop Group Property BPD yearly.
• Oversee the development of the 5YP submission for property-related capital plans.
• Lead initiatives for user experience and key value programmes.

Skills

Strategic thinking

People management

Financial reporting

Budgeting

Programme management

Education

Degree in Finance / Project Management / Supply Chain Management

Job description

Job Description

Vice President Strategy & Planning - Group Property

Derby or Indianapolis (Hybrid - min 3 days on site)

Full Time

Why join Rolls‑Royce?

At Rolls‑Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

By joining Rolls‑Royce, you’ll have the opportunity to work on world‑class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high‑performance culture.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Vice President Strategy & Planning Group Property to join the Team in Derby UK or Indianapolis, IN U.S. This is a Senior Leadership and Management Role reporting to the Senior Vice President of Group Property.

The Vice President Strategy & Planning Group Property will lead, develop and implement clear strategic BPD plans that support the short to medium term goals aligned with Global Business Services and Group priorities. This role will oversee and manage a SME team that drives functional performance and reporting via key performance indicators (performance measures), financial reporting and budget planning – to include Five Year Plans, process governance, risk management and property related capital planning and investments globally for Group Property.

This role drives performance management and strategy alignment within GBS and across Central areas (HO) along with insights from the Divisions to generate a property centric view on key performance enablers that will support Group Property (GP’s) initiatives and metrics to ultimately help the Group, GBS achieve strategic commitments, targets and goals. You will lead Group Property customer user experience initiatives and key cost value programmes (performance) with the businesses.

What you will be doing

• Manage and develop the Group Property BPD yearly.

• Establish /update the short and mid-term strategy/vision and ensure alignment across key group deliverables (e.g. Carbon reduction/Project delivery/Financial targets).
• Responsible for generating property related operating cost budgets/reporting each year gaining buy off from Divisions on managed spend and managing /providing performance visibility AP’ly, Quarterly and Five-Year Plan (5YP) updates.
• Manage and maintain the 5YP submission for property related capital plans, oversee GP Investment Committee and facilitate property related investment reviews/approval support for GP and Divisions.
• Manage the technology roadmap development and implementation for Group Property to ensure the function is delivering key improvement plans and seeking out emerging trends across partner networks/other corporates to better inform future investment needs inhouse and via our supply chain partners in alignment with IT.
• Maintain relevant business continuity plans and exercises for the function.
• Maintain Group Property risk register and ensure robust management and review each year – working with other divisional Risk Managers.
• Be a conduit for emerging international, industry and academic benchmarks, standards and guidance to heighten Group Property’s performance measurement opportunity and mature service performance measures.
• Manage and drive the cadence, standardisation of data sources/ flow/ content/quality in support of monthly key metrics (KPI’s), Group Property business reviews / GBS operational reviews as well as lead the delivery of Group Property annual reports.
• Lead, manage and maintain compliance and assurance programmes and processes for Group Property.
• Ensure appropriate systems are in place/developed to provide accurate and timely reporting on all relevant property related service performance data, cost initiatives, user experience/ performance measures (KPI’s).
• Accountable for leading and managing strategy papers and reporting at Board and Executive level.
• Responsible for Group Property intranet content and updates to ensure the organisation is accurately reflected and user content is maintained and refreshed on an ongoing basis.
• Identify future requirements for possible growth opportunities across Group Property that aligns to short, mid and long term strategic and technical service solutions that simplify and optimise total cost while providing wider value of services and expert support to our customers.
• Key Interfaces: CFBUs and Functions, Trade Bodies, Industry Bodies, Government, Regulators, Investors, Competitors, Suppliers, Customers, Benchmarking providers, NGOs, Standards bodies, Universities and UTCs.

Preferred requirements

• A Business leadership, Programme Management and or Financial background - experience of capital planning, budgeting and financial reporting, risk management, process governance.
• Preferably educated to degree level within Finance / Project Management / Supply Chain Mgt.
• Proven experience of managing large scale programmes and projects.
• A strategic thinker.
• People management experience.
• Senior Stakeholder management experience.
• Driving performance management initiatives.

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi‑year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls‑Royce into a high‑performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.

Rolls‑Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non‑discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.

Closing date:** 31st December 2025

As part of our selection process, candidates in certain locations may be asked to complete an online assessment, which can include cognitive and behavioural aptitude testing relevant to the role. If required, full instructions for the next steps will be provided.

Job Category Group Property Posting Date 08 Dec 2025; 00:12 Posting End Date 31 Dec 2025