Head of Corporate Strategy and Performance

Reporting into the Corporate Strategy and People Director, you'll be responsible for leading the development and ongoing performance monitoring of SNG's Corporate Plan. You'll lead a team that provides robust and data-driven support for strategic activity from planning to execution. You'll work with leaders across the business to develop their supporting strategies robustly, ensuring alignment to our Corporate Plan, and shaping initiatives that will step-change SNG's performance to achieve our corporate objectives and KPIs. You'll lead SNG's annual planning process, facilitating quarterly assurance reviews of directorate delivery plans and providing regular updates on how we are performing against our Corporate Plan to the Executive Board, SNG Board and wider business. Responsibilities include:

• Designing, implementing and embedding the framework for translating SNG's Corporate Strategy into business plans, objectives and measurable KPIs to ensure it meets the needs of the organisation and supports delivery of our strategic goals
• Leading the Corporate Strategy development process, including the annual delivery planning and quarterly review process, working cross-functionally to deliver an approach that ensures alignment of resource allocation and delivery plans to the Corporate Plan and our risk appetite
• Overseeing the development and execution of SNG's policy framework, including regular reporting on the adherence to the policy review schedule, and effectiveness/impact of any policy changes
• Providing performance and progress updates on the execution of SNG's Corporate Plan and Supporting Strategies, allowing for continuous monitoring, evaluation, and adjustment of the strategy performance framework to ensure alignment with changing business needs
• Working with the finance and Data & Analytics teams on the development of an enterprise Performance Measurement and Reporting framework and balanced scorecard
• Leading on regular reviews of our Strategic Execution Principal Risk, defining risks, controls and mitigation approaches, escalating impacts to delivery of the Corporate Plan
• Monitoring and analysing key HR metrics and data to inform decision making, drive operational improvements and improve organisational metrics and health
• Evaluating emerging industry and business trends that will impact SNG's future, whether opportunities or threats, and communicating insights to the executive and senior leadership teams
  
  You'll need to demonstrate strong experience in a similar senior role, leading on corporate strategy and performance monitoring. You'll have proven experience of developing and implementing frameworks to support strategic delivery and facilitate the development and delivery of solutions and projects. You'll also need:
• Significant experience of designing, planning, and executing strategy and business change projects including, stakeholder management, risk analysis, reporting and communications
• Comprehensive understanding of performance reporting frameworks, ability to identify key drivers of performance and provide reporting to deliver improvements
• Strong analytical skills with expertise in developing innovative solutions to business problems using hypothesis driven approaches and option/scenario planning
• Significant project/programme/portfolio management experience involving complex business workstreams across the whole lifecycle, from objective definition and scope of works onwards
• Demonstrable experience of working successfully with stakeholders at all levels including Board and Executive level
• Strong, persuasive written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build trusted and credible relationships with key influencers across the organisation
• Ability to monitor, analyse and interpret HR metrics to inform strategic decision making and drive operational improvements
• An awareness of project management methodologies, with qualifications in either TOGAF, change management or project management qualification (APMP/Prince2) or equivalent experience
• Previous experience from within the Housing sector is desirable
  
  Just now
Do you have experience leading on Corporate strategy and performance monitoring? Are you looking for your next strategic leadership role? We have a fantastic opportunity to join Sovereign Network Group as Head of Corporate Strategy and Performance. This is a key strategic leadership role at SNG, designed to support the business in aligning to, and delivering against, our ambitious Corporate Plan. It's a really exciting time to join us as Sovereign have joined forces with Network Homes to form SNG (Sovereign Network Group). Together we provide over 84,000 homes and invest in communities across London and the South of England. Based from our offices in Basingstoke or Wembley, you'll combine home and office working to ensure a positive work / life balance. There will be some travel required between these offices, so you should have access to transport and be happy to travel.


• £450 yearly flexible benefit pot to use against benefits of your choice
• 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (with an extra day every year up to 30 days)
• Chance to buy or sell holiday as part of our flexible benefits package
• Generous matched pension scheme up to 12% and Life cover at 4x salary
• Options for private medical insurance, dental insurance and critical illness cover
• Wellbeing discounts, including Gym Memberships and access to a 24/7 virtual GP service