Homes England
Head – Business Planning and Performance X3
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Birmingham, West Midlands (England), B1 2AX : Bristol, South West England, BS1 6EH : Longstanton, East of England, CB24 3EN : Liverpool, North West England, L3 1BP : Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber, LS11 9AT : Manchester, North West England, M1 6EU : Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England, NE4 5BZ
Job Summary
We are recruiting for three distinct, newly created senior leadership roles. While all three positions sit within our Business Planning & Performance team, each role owns a unique and critical area of our performance capability:
Head of Regional Performance Partnering – The senior advisor link to regional delivery teams.
Head of Performance Hub – The production and operations engine behind our corporate reporting.
Head of Performance Data & Systems – The technical mastermind behind our data architecture and infrastructure.
The Business Planning & Performance team sits within the Chief Operating Office (COO). Our mission is to strengthen how Homes England plans, measures, and improves delivery across the Agency. We lead the annual business planning process, support operating plans across the organisation, and provide senior leadership with the performance insight and assurance needed to monitor delivery against corporate priorities.
Reporting directly to our Director of Business Planning and Performance, you will join an experienced leadership team dedicated to driving a strong, evidence-based performance culture during a period of exciting organisational transformation.
Job Description
The Roles: Choose Your Path
While all three positions contribute to the wider leadership of the function, they require different areas of core expertise:
Head of Regional Performance Partnering
The Core Focus: Acting as the primary, trusted performance partner and strategic advisor to Regional Directors and their leadership teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- You will translate complex performance, financial, and delivery data into clear, actionable insight for regional decision-makers.
- You will provide constructive senior challenge on regional assumptions, delivery risks, profiles, and mitigations, ensuring local plans align seamlessly with overarching Agency priorities.
Ideal for: A collaborative leader with excellent stakeholder management skills who excels at navigating complex delivery environments and briefing senior executives.
Head of Performance Hub
The Core Focus: Establishing, leading, and continuously improving a centralised performance reporting function that acts as the "production engine" for the Agency.
Key Responsibilities:
- You will own the standard performance reporting operating model, managing workflow demand across reporting cycles.
- Your team will be responsible for producing core corporate dashboards, reports, Departmental returns, and Official Statistics, ensuring they meet the highest standards of data quality, consistency, and repeatability.
Ideal for: An operational delivery leader who thrives on process improvement, standardisation, automation, and leading diverse analytical teams to deliver high-quality outputs at pace.
Head of Performance Data & Systems
The Core Focus: Developing, managing, and driving the technical data architecture and systems capability that underpins all performance activity across the Agency.
Key Responsibilities:
- You will oversee extract-transform-load (ETL) processes, data modeling, repositories, and technical controls.
- You will manage technical demand across the function, translate business reporting requirements into practical technical solutions, and partner with wider Digital and Data & Analytics teams to ensure security, compliance, and architectural alignment.
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Ideal for: A technical leader with a deep understanding of data engineering, system integration, automated reporting infrastructure, and robust data governance/assurance frameworks.
Person specification
A Bit About You & What You'll Bring
Across all three roles, we are looking for established leaders who can navigate a complex corporate environment and cultivate high-performing cultures.
Essential Experience & Attributes
- Senior Leadership: Proven track record of operating at a senior level, offering both collaborative support and constructive challenge to executive stakeholders.
- People Capability: Significant experience in leading, developing, and motivating diverse or technical teams, creating an inclusive and continuous-improvement culture.
- Analytical Thinking: A highly developed ability to cut through complex information, solve strategic problems, and ensure robust data governance and quality assurance.
- Change Delivery: Comfort with ambiguity, resilience, and a proven ability to lead teams through organizational improvement and technical or operational change.
Qualifications
- Degree-level qualification or equivalent professional experience is essential for all roles.
- Professional training or a qualification in related disciplines (such as data engineering, finance, project management, performance, or process improvement) is highly desirable.
Benefits
Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits, and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return, we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:
- Holiday: Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.
- Working Flexibly: At Homes England, we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share, and compressed hours.
- Health and Wellbeing: We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, as well as access to Occupational Health.
- Professional Development: At Homes England, we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.
- Family Friendly Benefits: We also offer an excellent range of family-friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.
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Selection Process Details
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Selection Process Details
For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.
Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.
Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working, and deception generally. To ensure compliance, we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard, and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.
Homes England is an Equal Opportunities Employer
Homes England is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.
Protecting Your Personal Data
Homes England is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. For further information, please refer to our Privacy Notice which can be viewed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter
Nationality Requirements
Open to UK, Commonwealth, and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non-EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.
Working for the Civil Service
Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Further Information
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Contact Point for Applicants
- Name: Recruitment Team
- Email: recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality Requirements
This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members
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