Interim Business Planning Partner, you will work closely with stakeholders to ensure business and change initiatives are effectively planned, prioritised, and aligned to strategic objectives. You will provide planning, governance, and performance reporting support, helping leaders make informed decisions through robust insight, quality assurance, and cross-functional collaboration.
Client Details
The organisation operates in the Public Sector in the Midlands.
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.
Profile
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 sy...
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