Planning Lead - 12 month fixed term contract (we have office locations in Cambridge, Leeds & London)
Company Description
Genomics England partners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics. We also equip researchers to find the causes of disease and develop new treatments – with patients and participants at the heart of it all.
Our mission is to continue refining, scaling, and evolving our ability to enable others to deliver genomic healthcare and conduct genomic research.
We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.
Job purpose
Are you ready to shape the future of a dynamic and growing organisation?
Genomics England is looking for a Planning Lead to lead and oversee our annual business planning. In this pivotal role, you will work enterprise wide, across all areas of the business to ensure clear alignment, tracking, and successful delivery of our goals.
Genomics England is entering a new 4 year funding cycle on the back of new Government investment. Working closely with our newly formed PMO and reporting in part to the Head of Delivery and Governance, you’ll help set up and implement new strategic initiatives and embed strong governance across major programmes– as well as overseeing our OKR (Objectives and Key Results) process. This is an exciting opportunity to make a tangible impact at the heart of GEL’s growth and delivery.
Job Description
- Leading the annual business planning both overseeing the design of the planning process, running and facilitating sessions and ensuring the output resulting in an actionable plan for the PMO to monitor delivery progress against
- Work closely with the Directors of Finance and Procurement respectively to ensure join up and shared Insight Into the business planning.
- Working with the Head of Delivery and Governance on tracking delivery and alignment against the annual business plan through the year by working closely with Service Owners across the business and working with the PMO to ensure aligned and Insightful reporting.
- Overseeing GELs five-year business plan which translates GELs strategy into a year by year roadmap.
- Oversee and work to continuously Improve the OKR process
- Supporting the set up, planning and governance of the new SR initiatives
- Looking at the monitoring and evaluation of Genomics England’s delivery, especially for the new impact initiatives and implementing a process to oversee this and escalating concerns
- Know and understand the meaning behind our virtues and leadership behaviours and embody them in all aspects of your role.
Qualifications
Whilst we acknowledge relevant, suitable qualifications, we are mostly interested in your experience. We are looking for the following essential skills/experience where you have:
- led annual enterprise business planning cycles, designed and implemented planning processes and worked with leaders across a business to work through the planning cycle
- a problem solving mindset and skills that enables you to work on complex multi-faceted challenges
- excellent stakeholder management and facilitation skills
- experience in monitoring and tracking planning and reporting results to Boards/executive leadership teams.
Additional Information
Closing date for applications: Tuesday 12th August at 23:59
Salary from: £59,500
Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including:
- Generous Leave: 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, additional leave for long service, and the option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually (approval required).
- Family-Friendly: Blended working arrangements, flexible working, enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave benefits.
- Pension & Financial: Defined contribution pension (Genomics England double-matches up to 10%, however you can contribute more if you wish), Life Assurance (3x salary), and a Give As You Earn scheme.
- Learning & Development: Individual learning budgets, support for training and certifications, and reimbursement for one annual professional subscription (approval required).
- Recognition & Rewards: Employee recognition programme and referral scheme.
- Health & Wellbeing: Subsidised gym membership, a free Headspace account, and access to an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu jabs.
Equal opportunities and our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace
Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background.
Genomics England’s policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor.
Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour is contrary to our virtues, undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity, respect and integrity of all parties. Our People policies outline our commitment to inclusivity.
We aim to remove barriers in our recruitment processes and to be flexible with our interview processes. Should you require any adjustments that may help you to fully participate in the recruitment process, we encourage you to discuss this with us.
Blended working model
Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility that hybrid working can bring. We expect most people to come into the office a minimum of 2 times each month. However, this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. There is no expectation that people will return to the office full time unless they want to, however, some of our roles require full time on site attendance e.g., lab teams, reception team.
Our teams and squads have, and will continue to reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit, beyond the minimum. Our office locations are: Canary Wharf, Cambridge and Leeds.
Onboarding background checks
As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application, as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare.
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For more information about the organisation please view our Genomics England Insights and Welcome Pack.
