Business Planning Officer

Title: Business Planning Officer

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time, 35 hours

Salary: £40,649 per annum (London weighted salary) or £36,073 per annum (Regional salary), dependant on experience

Grade: 8

Reporting Office: London, Stratford or Manchester, Trafford

Persona: Agile Worker: 20% - 40% of contractual hours to be worked from reporting office/working location (hybrid working)

Closing Date: 3rd October 2025

Interview Date: 9th October 2025 at our Stratford, London office

Please click here for the role profileBusiness Planning Officer Role Profile.pdf

Benefits include: Excellent pension plan (up to 6% double contribution), 28 days Annual Leave rising to 31 days with length of service + Bank Holidays, Westfield Health Cash Plan, non-contributory life assurance, up to 21 hours volunteering paid days, lifestyle benefits, Employee Assistance Programme and many more…

Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated.

Join our Business Planning Team at L&Q:

This is an ideal role for a results-oriented, creative, analytical, and detail-oriented person who seeks to develop a career in business planning and/or strategy and planning.

Our business plans are the home of the activity to deliver our Future Shape Corporate Strategy, with its priorities to deliver safe, decent homes allied to reliable, consistent customer service. You will report to the Head of Business Planning within the Governance and Transformation Directorate, and work closely with other senior leaders across L&Q to deliver high quality, consistent business planning for the organisation.

This opportunity has arisen at an exciting time, as the team are beginning to build the strategic plan to underpin L&Q’s next Corporate Strategy. You will join an agile, high-performing and values-driven team at the heart of L&Q’s programme of change to set L&Q up for success over the long term.

If this sounds like you, we would love for you to apply!

Your impact in the role:

The Business Planning Officer will play a key role in supporting the delivery of our Corporate Strategy. Key responsibilities will be to:

• Establish the annual cycle of planning activities and ensure the team have what they need to execute this.
• Analyse plans from across different business functions to build a total view of what L&Q will deliver in both the short and longer term.
• Produce assurance reporting on the plan and performance against it.
• Inform L&Q’s communications narrative about what our plans will deliver.

What you'll bring:

• A passion for delivering excellence and results. You will be responsible for end-to-end delivery of your assignments, working at pace.
• You will apply a structured but pragmatic approach to problem definition and use data to support the analysis of issues and their root causes.
• An excellent communicator with great engagement skills, you know how to take stakeholders on the journey. This will enable you to build strong relationships and work collaboratively to always deliver at the highest level.
• You have a record of using data intelligently to make wise decisions without over complicating things. You are great at prioritising and focusing on what matters most, not getting lost in the detail and acting quickly when things just are not right.
• Housing experience is not essential but to be successful in this role you will need to be able to demonstrate experience and understanding of:
• An understanding of the business planning, and strategic planning processes
• Excellent organisation, planning and co-ordination skills and the ability to multitask and meet deadlines
• Demonstrable experience of undertaking detailed tasks in a fast-paced project environment
• Creative thinking and ability to support technical and non-technical stakeholders effectively
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, particularly within a matrix management environment
• Empathy and diplomacy

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during this process, including application stage, please email lqcareers@lqgroup.org.uk

About L&Q:

We’re one of the UK’s leading housing associations and developers. We were founded on a simple belief: high quality housing is vital for people’s health, happiness and security. Everyone deserves a quality home that gives them the chance to live a better life.

250,000 people call our properties ‘home’, and we’re proud to serve diverse communities across London, the South East and North West of England.

At L&Q, people are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. The foundation of everything that we are is built on our corporate values and behavioural framework, which outlines our core expectations and should be demonstrated at all times, and all levels, when representing L&Q.

L&Q strongly believe a diverse and inclusive workforce is important, and inclusion is part of our core values and everyday working practices. We make hiring decisions based on your experiences, skills and merits and we are recognised externally for our commitment to inclusion. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident (Committed) employer and have signed the Time to Change Employer Pledge to demonstrate our commitment to end mental health discrimination in the workplace. Click here to read more.

At L&Q, sustainability is at the heart of what we do. We recognise the responsibility we hold as one of the UK’s largest housing associations.

Click here to find out more about L&Q and why you should join us!

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