Lead - Corporate and Business Planning
- Salary
- £47.2K–£50.3KGBP per year
- Hiring from
- United Kingdom
- Work type
- Hybrid
- Posted
- Sep 29, 2026
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- Hours: 37 hours per week (full time)
- Contract: Permanent
- Salary: Grade 10 - £47,181 - £50,269
- Location: Sheffield (hybrid working)
We are looking for a strategic and collaborative Lead - Corporate and Business Planning to join SYMCA's Insight Team.
This is a unique opportunity to help shape how SYMCA delivers its ambitions for South Yorkshire. You'll turn strategic priorities into clear, achievable plans, working with senior leaders to drive focus, alignment and meaningful outcomes that make a difference for communities, businesses and partners across the region.
If you think you'd be a great fit for this role but you’re not sure you meet every requirement equally, we'd still welcome your application
If you think you'd be a great fit for this role but you’re not sure you meet every requirement equally, we'd still welcome your application
We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking to work part time (4 days a week or more) or as part of a job share.
Applications must be accompanied by a cover letter setting out how you meet the following criteria:
Applications must be accompanied by a cover letter setting out how you meet the following criteria:
- Significant experience in corporate and business planning
- Experience of working with senior leaders to produce organisation-wide plans
- Significant experience of using Excel to track business plans or budgets, including complex financial information
Please note, all applications should be made directly via our careers portal.
About the role
You'll play a central role in connecting strategy, planning and delivery across the organisation, helping ensure SYMCA's priorities are translated into clear plans that support impactful outcomes for South Yorkshire.
You will:
You will:
- Lead the development and delivery of SYMCA's corporate planning processes, including production of the annual corporate plan.
- Work closely with senior leaders, Finance, HR and colleagues across the organisation to align priorities, resources and delivery plans.
- Provide expert insight and analysis to support business planning, funding decisions and effective organisational decision-making.
- Challenge and support teams to develop robust, achievable plans that reflect changing priorities, risks and opportunities.
- Help strengthen performance reporting and organisational oversight, giving leaders clear visibility of progress against key objectives.
About you
You'll be a confident planning professional who enjoys bringing people together around a shared vision. You'll combine strategic thinking, strong analytical skills and excellent stakeholder management to help shape organisational priorities and deliver lasting impact.
You will:
- Bring significant experience of corporate and business planning, translating strategic ambitions into practical, deliverable plans.
- Have experience working with senior leaders and influencing stakeholders to build alignment, clarity and shared ownership of priorities.
- Be comfortable working with complex information, budgets and data, ensuring decisions are informed by accurate analysis and insight.
- Be an excellent communicator, able to produce high-quality written material for a range of audiences, including formal governance settings.
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment, balancing competing priorities while maintaining a collaborative, inclusive and outcomes-focused approach.
Benefits
All colleagues have access to a Local Government Pension Scheme and the chance to be part of an organisation where you can really make a difference. Located in Sheffield City Centre, we are well-placed for transport links and encourage employees to take advantage of the active travel facilities. Work/life balance is extremely important to us here at SYMCA with our recognised family/friendly policies, genuine work flexibility, recognition, and shared success.
In addition to the above, some of our benefits include -
Holiday Entitlement – From 28 to 36 days annual leave entitlement (depending on length of service) plus bank holidays. Pro-rata for part time colleagues.
Holiday Entitlement – From 28 to 36 days annual leave entitlement (depending on length of service) plus bank holidays. Pro-rata for part time colleagues.
Annual Leave Purchase Scheme – The ability to purchase up to a further 15 days per year in additional to your normal annual leave
Hybrid working – Our offices are a space where we come together and collaborate. Most of our roles are offered on a hybrid basis with the exception of some support roles being onsite full time. Please note, unless specified within the job advert, we cannot accommodate remote working contracts.
Flexible Hours Scheme – Most roles within SYMCA work under the Flexi-Scheme which allows office-based employees’ flexibility and discretion over their working hours. Under the scheme employees can accrue a defined amount of credit or debit of working hours, and to take time-off in the form of Flexi-Leave or banked Annual Leave.
Rewarding You - Reducing everyday expenses through discounts, benefits, financial advice, wellbeing solutions and more with Reward Gateway and Cycle-to-Work schemes.
Training on the job - Support with upskilling skills through on-the-job training and qualifications
Professional Membership Fees – Where membership to Professional bodies is applicable to your role, SYMCA will reimburse your membership fees where applicable and following approval by Line Management.
Diversity at South Yorkshire Combined Mayoral Authority
Our workforce is made up of a diverse community, where we all belong and feel part of something bigger. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
All employees are eligible to request Flexible Working arrangements from day one of employment as such all requests will be considered subject to operation requirements.
All employees are eligible to request Flexible Working arrangements from day one of employment as such all requests will be considered subject to operation requirements.
Where candidates share disabilities within the application process, if they demonstrate that they meet all essential criteria from the Role Profile within their application, they will automatically be invited to interview.
If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the process, please contact recruitment@southyorkshire-ca.gov.uk or include within your application form detailing the adjustment and how it will assist in managing any barriers.