Head of Strategic Planning and Performance

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 344131**Salary**:

- £64,432 - £74,825- National: £64,432- £73014 London: £67,794- £74,825- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Grade 6**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Competition, Markets and Regulatory Reform Group (CMRR)**Type of role**:

- Project Delivery**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

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Location
- London, Teddington and BirminghamAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**About OPSS**

Do you care about the safety of products and want to protect people and places? Can we use your skills, knowledge and experience to enable UK business to thrive? If the answer is yes, then we would like to hear from you

We are the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS), part of the Department for Business & Trade (Previously the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy). We are here for the purpose of making regulation work to deliver real world impact. Regulation is a powerful Government tool to address market failures, influence behaviour and promote positive action. Crafted and delivered well, regulation can be an enabler of growth, innovation and efficiency.

Since early 2018 we have been building a positive and creative team that enjoys a position of influence and respect within an organisation that continues to grow, most recently with the addition of construction products regulation planned.

Our primary purpose is to protect people and places from product-related harm, ensuring consumers and businesses can buy and sell products with confidence.

Further information can be found on our website here

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles. We embrace diversity and promote equality of opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. There is a guaranteed interview scheme (DCS) for people with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

**We are Inclusive**

**Job description**:
**About the Team**

The OPSS Strategic Planning and Performance team is a small team that exists to ensure that our activities are delivering the organisation’s mission and direction. We look to ensure that activities across the organisation are aligned with the priority outcomes we are seeking to achieve.

We provide proportionate and focused performance, activity and risk reporting across OPSS, working with DBT central teams and Other Government Departments OPSS delivers enforcement responsibilities on behalf of. We work closely with the OPSS Chief Executive and Leadership Team through leading the monthly OPSS Performance, Finance and Risk board.

We help tackle emerging risks and challenging problems facing the organisation, clarifying issues and opportunities, and working with teams across OPSS (and the wider Department) to develop appropriate responses and solutions.

We support the Spending Review and other funding allocation processes, working to ensure that we can match the objectives we have been set with the resources needed to deliver.

**Key Responsibilities**:
The Head of Strategic Planning and Performance will report to the OPSS DCEO Enabling. You will work closely with other OPSS teams, including Resource Management, People and Strategy, and will be responsible for a range of planning, performance and risk activities that will ensure that OPSS has a clear strategic framework for delivery of our activities and our use of resources, that meets the outcomes and objectives set out in the OPSS strategy.

You will lead our organisational corporate planning process and monthly performance reporting, identifying opportunities for improvement and streamlining, whilst ensuring strong engagement with functional teams across the breadth of OPSS. You will also work on corporate efficiencies, ensuring that we maximise use of resources across the organisation, and support any work relating to fiscal events and business cases for new investment.

You will be expected to provide regular advice to OPSS Leadership Team on issues within your area and will represent the directorate on key DBT/ group level committees.

This role will involve matrix management of individuals from teams across OPSS to support key deliverables, as well as leading the small Planning and Performance team based in Birmingham.

**Key responsibilities will include**:

- Leading the development and implementation of OPSS corporate planning
- Lead OPSS’ Performance, Finance and Risk board, refining processes and information to maximise effectiveness
- Supporting the deputy Chief Executive on organisational efficiency to maximise the use of our resources
- Working with key corporate teams to ensure OPSS is meeting Departmental plan