Business Planning & Performance Director

Egis is a leading global consulting, construction engineering and operating firm. We work together with our clients, across every aspect of transport, energy and the built environment to build a more balanced, sustainable and resilient world. The Egis Group has over 50 years’ experience and a team of 22,000 employees in over 120 countries around the world. Joining our Group means, above all, sharing our values as a people-first company, strongly committed to sustainability and innovation.

In the UK we're proud to be delivering some of the most iconic projects which help connect people, protect our environment and meet emission reduction targets. From motorways to tramways, nuclear power plants to smart cities, clients choose us to help them solve their most complex challenges - delivering climate-responsible growth that meets the needs of communities, industry, and the planet.

Connect Plus (CP) is the consortium that manages the 30-year National Highways flagship M25 DBFO contract, with over 140,000 assets and a management system certified to ISO 55001. The contract end date is 2039.

Connect Plus Services (CPS), a Balfour Beatty, Atkins Realis and Egis Roads Operation UK Joint Venture, operates and maintains the M25 motorway network on behalf of Connect Plus (CP) under a 30-year contract and is currently 16 years into the concession period.

This role is for a results-driven strategic leader who will lead with vision, plan with purpose, and drive growth that inspires; our Business Planning Director turns bold ideas into reality.

The Business Planning and Performance (BP&P) directorate is responsible for leading the definition and management of the CPS strategy and priorities, ensuring effective risk management and setting the budget, commercial plans and considering the relationship with stakeholders while understanding the complexities of our long term hand-back responsibilities.

This position will lead the BP&P team to drive high performance and continuous improvement across the business aligned to the business strategy and plans.

You will act as the Managing Director's strategic partner, driving organisational performance, governance, strategy execution and business improvement across CPS.

You will provide leadership and integration across planning, performance, governance and risk, transformation and continuous improvement activities; ensuring the SLT remains focused on the issues that matter most to delivering CPS objectives.

• Act as the strategic partner to the Managing Director, supporting the development, communication and delivery of the CPS vision, strategy and long-term priorities
• Maintain the relevance of the Customer and Business Strategies to address the evolving demands of the network, our clients (National Highways and Connect Plus), JV Parent Companies and our road users.
• Prepare and review strategy and annual plan to manage Handback and contractual obligations
• Ensure the Senior Leadership Team remains focused on the strategic, contractual, commercial and operational issues that matter most to successful business performance and contract delivery.
• Provide strategic insight, independent thinking and constructive challenge to support effective executive decision making and organisational performance.
• Foster, empower and sustain a high-performing team dedicated to exceeding contract performance expectations.
• Define and regularly review CPS business plans considering current challenges, future opportunities, and evolving stakeholder requirements.

• Lead the CPS governance framework, ensuring effective executive and board reporting, decision making, assurance activities and organisational controls
• Ensure enterprise risk management is embedded across CPS, promoting a culture of risk-based decision making, business resilience and proactive management of opportunities and threats to ensure business continuity is assured and opportunity is embraced.
• Develop business performance management and risk reporting, tracking business performance trend analysis against plans and address issues promptly and efficiently.
• Ensure Enterprise Risk is appropriately managed and communicated to the executive level within CPS (Senior Leadership Team and CPS Board) while educating and influencing on the risk-based decision culture in CPS.
• Hold business leaders accountable for delivery against strategic objectives, business plans, customer outcomes,…