3x Leadership Opportunities: Head of Business Planning & Performance
Closing Date: 31/07/2026 at 23:59
Interviews: Week commencing 10th August 2026
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:
1. Head of Regional Performance Partnering – The senior advisor link to regional delivery teams.
2. Head of Performance Hub – The production and operations engine behind our corporate reporting.
3. Head of Performance Data & Systems – The technical mastermind behind our data architecture and infrastructure.
A Bit About the Team and the Mission...
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.
The Roles: Choose Your Path
While all three positions contribute to the wider leadership of the function, they require different areas of core expertise:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
- Ideal for: A technical leader with a deep understanding of data engineering, system integration, automated reporting infrastructure, and robust data governance/assurance frameworks.
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.
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.
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.
