Senior Planning and Performance Manager

Senior Planning & Performance Manager Liverpool/Hybrid (Once a week on site) 6 months + Up to £695 per day (Inside IR35) An experienced Senior Planning & Performance Manager is required for our regulatory client to support a major digital transformation programme. Working within the PMO you'll play a key role in a new Programme of work, a transformation portfolio focused on improving digital services, increasing operational efficiency and enhancing reporting capabilities. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on creating a single view of portfolio demand, capacity, dependencies and performance, enabling better investment decisions, stronger governance and improved delivery outcomes. Key Responsibilities * Establish and enhance portfolio planning, resource management and PMO capabilities across a complex organisation. * Develop forecasting, demand management and capacity planning approaches to support strategic and operational decision-making. * Design and embed dependency management frameworks and governance processes across a multi-project environment. * Produce portfolio-level reporting, management information and analysis to support prioritisation, investment decisions and executive governance. * Drive reporting automation and create dashboards that provide visibility of resource utilisation, forecasting, portfolio health and delivery performance. * Partner with Finance, Project Managers and Delivery Managers to improve planning, reporting and decision-making. Experience required: * Establishing or transforming resource management, capacity planning, portfolio planning or PMO functions within a complex environment. * Implementing forecasting and demand management approaches that improve organisational decision-making. * Leading organisational change, process improvement or operating model initiatives. * Working with senior leaders to establish governance, standards and performance frameworks. * Delivering meaningful portfolio reporting and management information that supports executive decision-making. Technical Expertise: * Strong analytical, planning and data interpretation skills, with the ability to turn complex data into actionable insight and forecasting. * Knowledge of portfolio resource management, capacity planning, forecasting and dependency management methodologies. * Experience implementing and integrating Azure DevOps (ADO), Microsoft Planner, Power BI and Microsoft 365 solutions. * Proven experience designing automated reporting, dashboards and management information solutions. * Strong understanding of governance, assurance, risk management and performance reporting principles. This is an opportunity to design and embed the planning, forecasting and reporting capability underpinning one of the UK's most important public sector transformation programmes