Manager - Business Planning and Performance

Manager - Business Planning and Performance

Closing Date: 15/07/2026 at 23:59

This is a 6 Month secondment opportunity.

About the role...

Working in the Business Planning and Performance team, this role plays an important part in delivering high quality performance reporting and financial insight across Homes England’s investment programmes. You will help ensure data is accurate, timely and supports effective decision making, tracking delivery against the Annual Business Plan You will join a skilled and collaborative team within the Chief Operating Office, focused on improving reporting, data quality and consistency. The team works closely with Finance, Risk and programme teams to provide a clear and reliable view of performance. The role includes both day to day delivery and supporting improvements to reporting and forecasting. You will help strengthen processes, improve data quality and contribute to ongoing work to make reporting more efficient and useful.

About you…

You are confident working with performance and financial data, with the ability to analyse information and identify key trends, risks and issues. Complex data can be translated into clear, practical insight that supports senior stakeholders in making informed decisions. You have strong stakeholder skills enable you to build effective relationships across teams, offering clear guidance and constructive challenge where needed. A collaborative approach comes naturally, along with the ability to work across different functions to support shared outcomes. You have a solid understanding of financial and performance reporting underpins your work, including experience of forecasting and managing data from multiple sources. Maintaining accuracy and consistency across data is a key strength. You take pride in delivering high quality outputs and are motivated to improve how things are done. A focus on efficiency, clarity and continuous improvement helps strengthen both processes and the value of the team’s work.

Who are we?

Homes England: The Housing and Regeneration Agency We believe that affordable, quality homes in well-designed places are key to improving people’s lives. As the government’s housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built. How? We form long-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety. Together with our partners, we’re accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come.

What we offer...

As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are committed to 50/50 hybrid working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what matters to you. Membership of the Homes and Communities Agency Pension Scheme, which is a contributory defined benefit scheme with the amount you receive on retirement based on your salary and years worked at the Agency. Internal applicants: please note that if you are successful, the salary you are offered will be in accordance with our pay policy. You can find details on the HR Hub SharePoint site. If you ever need a bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, a wide range of healthcare plans, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names. Our range of network groups are also there to support you to be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future. If you are a member of a professional body, we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit, you’ll be good to go. Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We work to a 50/50 office/home based model. Moving back into our office environments has enabled us to utilise our space and time together in the most collaborative way.

We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications. We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme.

We’re a diverse team of more than 1,000 professionals spanning 17 professions, helping Homes England to be effective, efficient and deliver for communities. Our people remain at the heart of everything we do, and we’re committed to building an Agency that not only reflects the diverse communities we serve, but also champions inclusion in how we shape homes and places across the country. For more information about our EDI strategy please see our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Report 2024 to 2025 — Second Edition - GOV.UK

You will be required to have the Right to Work in the UK and Homes England do not offer visa sponsorship. If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your Right to Work in the UK at this stage. Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.