Interim Assistant Director of Strategic Planning

Your new company Hays Accountancy and Finance are currently supporting our client, a large, complex public sector organisation undergoing significant transformation. This organisation plays a central role in delivering critical services across a multi-stakeholder environment and is focused on driving strategic change, performance improvement, and enhanced customer engagement across its operations.As Assistant Director, you will operate at a senior leadership level, supporting the Director and Executive team to deliver strategic priorities and transformation initiatives. You will lead a broad portfolio covering strategic planning, performance management, customer engagement, governance, and service improvement.Your new role Leading the development and delivery of corporate and operational strategic planning frameworksDriving organisation-wide performance management, including KPI development and reportingDeveloping and embedding a customer engagement strategy and feedback frameworkOverseeing governance, risk, and assurance reporting processes at a corporate levelSupporting business planning cycles, including annual plans and long-term strategic initiativesLeading service improvement and transformation programmes to enhance efficiency and performanceManaging stakeholder relationships across internal leadership teams and external partnersProviding strategic insight and briefing to senior leadership and board-level stakeholdersLeading multidisciplinary teams across planning, ..... full job details .....