Business Planning and Performance Director; BPPD

Overview

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.

The closing date for this vacancy is 1st November. We encourage applicants to submit their application before this deadline.

Strategic leadership & strategy execution

• 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 dialogue to support effective executive judgement 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.

Governance, performance & risk management

• Guide 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, while educating and influencing on the risk-based decision culture in CPS.
• Support business leaders in being responsible for delivery against strategic goals, business plans, customer outcomes, contractual commitments and agreed risk appetite.
• Monitor performance and risk trends, ensuring emerging issues are understood, escalated and addressed appropriately.
• Provide clear governance, performance and risk insight to the Managing Director, Senior Guidance Team and CPS Board to enable informed collaborative judgement.

Business transformation & continuous improvement

• Guide and promote business transformation, continuous improvement and organisational change initiatives that improve efficiency, productivity and…