Business Planning and Performance Director

Overview

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Réalis, Balfour Beatty and Egis Road Operations UK are part of a consortium, creating Connect Plus Services, a unique partnership with a collective strength in highways asset care from finance, through to design, build, maintenance as well as day to day operation.

Connect Plus Services (CPS) 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.

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.

This position will support and work closely with the CPS Managing Director to achieve strategic operational alignment across all of the teams to deliver our goals and drive high performance and continuous improvement.

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.

• To set the overarching direction for CPS and drive digital capability improvements to ensure successful delivery of CPS contract hand back obligations.
• Guide the Performance Quality & Improvement team to effectively achieve designated business objectives.
• Oversee establishment of CPS business Enterprise Risk Management to ensure business continuity is assured and opportunity is embraced.
• 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.
• Prioritise client management and relationships, aiming to extract maximum value and alignment with the Parent Companies within the JV Partnership.
• Lead the BP&P team to drive high performance and continuous improvement across the business aligned to the business strategy and plans.

Financial responsibilities

• CPS: In SLT role, responsible for financial performance associated with BP&P team and approve budget setting for CPS.

Organisational responsibilities

CPS: In SLT role, responsible for the teams under the BP&P and holding all teams to account on business objectives.

• Allocated responsibility for relationships with leaders in our clients Connect Plus (CP) and National Highways (NH) plus Parent Company & JV Partner Board members.
• 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.
• Build change capability across CPS and support the delivery of major change programmes.
• Lead the enhancement, delivery and adoption of data and digital capability for CPS Develop business performance management and risk reporting, tracking business performance trend analysis against plans and address issues promptly and efficiently.
• Manage all Stakeholder and Customer relationships, including NH, CP and road users.
• Prepare and review strategy and annual plan to manage Handback and contractual obligations.
• 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…