Business Planning and Performance Director (BPPD)

AtkinsRéalis · GBLondonNova North

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Job Description

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.

Your role

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 overall business performance.
• Guide the Performance Quality & Improvement team to effectively achieve designated business goals.
• Set the overarching direction for CPS and drive digital capability improvements to ensure successful deliver of CPS contract handback obligations.
• Lead the enhancement, delivery and adoption of data and digital capability for CPS.
• Facilitate the Business Planning & Performance function to deliver high performance, professional excellence and measurable business outcomes.
• Build change capability across CPS and support the delivery of major change programmes.

Organisational integration & stakeholder management

• Manage all Stakeholder and Customer relationships, including NH, CP and road users.
• Act as a key integrator across CPS, ensuring strategic priorities are translated into coordinated action and successful delivery across all business functions.
• Facilitate alignment where competing priorities exist, ensuring decisions support enterprise-wide outcomes and long-term contractual obligations.
• Represent CPS at executive, client, shareholder, governance and industry forums as required, balancing positive stakeholder relationships with the protection of commercial and contractual interests.
• Prioritize client management and relationships, aiming to extract maximum value and alignment with the Parent Companies within the JV Partnership.
• Ensure strategic decision-making balances customer outcomes, operational performance, contractual commitments and financial goals.

Leadership & culture

• Champion CPS values, guidance behaviours and a culture of constructive challenge, openness and continuous learning.
• Promote an environment where risks, opportunities and performance issues are surfaced and addressed proactively.
• Promote CPS's commitment to safety, wellbeing and responsible guidance, ensuring these principles underpin strategic collaborative decision-making and organisational culture.
• Act as a visible role model for integrity, professionalism, accountability and leadership excellence across the organisation.
• Building strong working relationships with fellow senior managers to enhance collaboration across teams.
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of safety and wellbeing standards and able to communicate with enthusiasm and credibility to inspire and energise the team towards achieving our goals.

About you

• A relevant professional qualification and ideally Chartered / Incorporated status with a recognised and relevant UK institution.
• Demonstrable experience operating at senior or executive level within a complex, regulated, operational or infrastructure environment, guiding organisational direction and business performance.
• Proven experience developing and delivering business strategy, annual business plans and organisation-wide priorities, translating strategic objectives into measurable outcomes.
• Strong experience of executive governance, board reporting, performance management and organisational assurance, with the ability to turn complex information into meaningful insight that supports judgements.
• Demonstrable experience of enterprise risk management, risk-based judgement and business continuity planning, with the ability to influence leaders to proactively manage risk and opportunity.
• Proven track record of guiding business transformation, continuous improvement and organisational change programmes that deliver measurable improvements in performance, productivity, efficiency or customer outcomes.
• Proven capability to deliver digital change with detailed knowledge of Digital Information techniques in an infrastructure asset management environment.
• Experience of facilitating cross-functional initiatives and aligning diverse business functions behind common strategic goals in a complex stakeholder environment.
• Commercially astute, with experience of balancing business performance, contractual obligations, customer outcomes and financial priorities to support sustainable organisational success.
• Experience of operating within complex contractual, concession, alliance, Joint Venture or partnership environments, with the ability to understand contractual risk and protect organisational interests through effective governance and judgement.
• Strong stakeholder management experience, with a proven ability to build trusted relationships and influence senior leaders, clients, shareholders, regulators, partners and governance bodies.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence, challenge and engage audiences at all levels of the organisation and represent CPS with credibility externally.

Personal attributes

• An inspirational and visible facilitator who sees the bigger picture, creates clarity of purpose and encourages others to achieve aspirational goals.
• Strategic thinker with strong analytical, planning and problem-solving capabilities, able to navigate complexity and make sound, informed decisions.
• Able to provide constructive challenge, influence outcomes and hold the line on strategic, contractual and commercial matters while maintaining trusted relationships.
• Skilled at building collaboration, connecting people and initiatives across organisational boundaries, and creating alignment where priorities compete.
• Commercially and politically astute, with strong judgement and the confidence to operate effectively at executive and board level.
• Demonstrates integrity, resilience and accountability, remaining effective under pressure and through periods of change and ambiguity.
• Passionate about continuous improvement and creating a culture where innovation, learning and high performance can thrive.
• Promotes safety, wellbeing and inclusion, ensuring these principles remain central to collaborative judgement and guidance behaviours.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

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About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Additional information

Security clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.

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At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.  

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