Senior Planning and Performance Manager

Senior Planning &amp; Performance Manager<br />Liverpool/Hybrid (Once a week on site)<br />6 months +<br />Up to £695 per day (Inside IR35)<br />An experienced Senior Planning &amp; Performance Manager is required for our regulatory client to support a major digital transformation programme. Working within the PMO you'll play a key role in a new Programme of work, a transformation portfolio focused on improving digital services, increasing operational efficiency and enhancing reporting capabilities. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on creating a single view of portfolio demand, capacity, dependencies and performance, enabling better investment decisions, stronger governance and improved delivery outcomes.<br />Key Responsibilities

• Establish and enhance portfolio planning, resource management and PMO capabilities across a complex organisation.
• Develop forecasting, demand management and capacity planning approaches to support strategic and operational decision-making.
• Design and embed dependency management frameworks and governance processes across a multi-project environment.
• Produce portfolio-level reporting, management information and analysis to support prioritisation, investment decisions and executive governance.
• Drive reporting automation and create dashboards that provide visibility of resource utilisation, forecasting, portfolio health and delivery performance.
• Partner with Finance, Project Managers and Delivery Managers to improve planning, reporting and decision-making.<br />Experience required:
• Establishing or transforming resource management, capacity planning, portfolio planning or PMO functions within a complex environment.
• Implementing forecasting and demand management approaches that improve organisational decision-making.
• Leading organisational change, process improvement or operating model initiatives.
• Working with senior leaders to establish governance, standards and performance frameworks.
• Delivering meaningful portfolio reporting and management information that supports executive decision-making.<br />Technical Expertise:
• Strong analytical, planning and data interpretation skills, with the ability to turn complex data into actionable insight and forecasting.
• Knowledge of portfolio resource management, capacity planning, forecasting and dependency management methodologies.
• Experience implementing and integrating Azure DevOps (ADO), Microsoft Planner, Power BI and Microsoft 365 solutions.
• Proven experience designing automated reporting, dashboards and management information solutions.
• Strong understanding of governance, assurance, risk management and performance reporting principles.<br />This is an opportunity to design and embed the planning, forecasting and reporting capability underpinning one of the UK's most important public sector transformation programmes