Planning and Performance Lead

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

- 305797**Salary**:

- £52,000 - £61,933- London: £55365 - £61933 National: £52000 - £58652- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Analytical
- Business Management and Improvement
- Policy
- Strategy**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

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Location
- Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
This role sits within the Department for Business and Trade’s (DBT) newly formed Domestic & International Markets & Exports directorate (DIME). This Group, led by Andrew Mitchell, will be responsible for the delivery of practical support to businesses to grow exports so we reach our £1tr target. DIME also has overall responsibility for support for small businesses.

This role will be instrumental in the departments race to £1tr target by 2030. You will lead the team responsible for performance management and governance.

You will work across the breadth and depth of DIME’s business, building strong relationships and partnering with senior managers, corporate and operational teams to develop intelligent governance structures, informed by robust data and smart metrics to monitor performance and inform good decision making.

This is an exciting time to join the team as short term work will be focused on the incorporation of xBEIS Cities and Local Growth and business growth teams into the directorate to embed ways of working, good governance and the use of data to inform decisions key to the work of the department. It is a great opportunity to shape a role and to work across an interesting and exciting portfolio.

**Job description**:
**Performance management**: leading the business planning process for our key teams, monthly and quarterly performance management reporting, and alignment of export and investment wins.

**Project leadership**:creating and delivering new and current projects with agreed outcomes within time, cost and quality constraints as well as providing effective leadership and management controls.

**Stakeholder management**: identifying and managing stakeholder relationships and assessing the need for senior level support.

**Governance**: supporting effective governance and decision making and reporting to senior leaders. Including identifying, developing and sharing best practice processes, tools and templates within the team and across the Department.

**Leadership**: leading and developing a team of approximately 2 people, enabling and empowering them to deliver excellence, take ownership of work and progress.

**Other**: ad hoc duties required by the role, such as time critical requests from DGs, planning and prioritising your and your team’s work as needed.

**Hybrid Working**

Please be aware that this role can only be worked from within the UK and not overseas.

Informal hybrid working arrangements will be available as agreed with the vacancy manager and in line with the requirements of the role.

Most DIT employees will be working a hybrid pattern, spending 2-3 days a week (pro rata) in an office, on average. If your office location is London, you will be eligible to receive London weighting

**Person specification**:
**Essential Criteria**:

- Experience of providing strategic prioritisation and clear evidence of empowering others to achieve organisational goals.
- Track record of delivering complex projects.
- Experience of stakeholder relationship management across a diverse range of people.
- Experience of working on corporate functions, specifically: performance, planning, and governance.
- Evidence of having previously delivered business planning within government.

**Desirable Criteria**:

- Evidence of leading projects or large operational work streams, particularly in environments prone to high levels of change.
- Ability to quickly alter your approach to delivery in a fast-paced environment and make decisions with autonomy.
- Understanding of the UKs export environment and ambition.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Seeing the Big Picture
- Leadership
- Working Together
- Managing a Quality Service

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £52,000, Department for Business and Trade contributes £14,900 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behavi