Planning Analyst

Planning Analyst

Barbican, London | Hybrid Working (1-2 days a week) | Fixed Term: 7 Months | Full-Time

Competitive salary available, depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

Nuffield Health is the charity that’s building a healthier nation, one day at a time. From award-winning hospitals and leisure facilities to flagship community programmes – we’ll do whatever it takes to look after the UK’s wellbeing. It starts with passion and commitment to quality. It starts with you.

As a Planning Analyst , you'll play a key role in enabling strategic planning across the charity, helping ensure initiatives are prioritised and sequenced to deliver maximum value with our available resources.

Working closely with the Lead Planning Delivery Manager and senior stakeholders across the organisation, you’ll help maintain and manage our initiative backlog, support business case development, and ensure planning governance is embedded and effective. Your work will contribute directly to the formation and success of complex, multi-year, multi-million-pound programmes that support Nuffield Health’s strategic objectives.

As the Planning Analyst you will:

• Review the accuracy and integrity of our charity-wide planning backlog and portfolio view, because great decisions start with great visibility.

• Help shape strong, measurable business cases that turn bold ideas into actionable plans.

• Champion and refine our planning tools and governance processes, so they’re as efficient and intuitive as the people using them.

• Work across teams and departments to ensure priorities are clear, resources are aligned, and approvals are smooth.

• Lead the charge on reporting cycles, helping the organisation stay on track with quarterly and annual reviews that inform our direction and delivery.

To succeed as a Planning Analyst, we’re looking for:

• Experience in enterprise-level planning and demand management

• Strong knowledge of planning processes, governance, and tools

• Excellent stakeholder management, including at senior levels

• High attention to detail and analytical capability

• Self-motivated and able to work under pressure

• Familiarity with project portfolio management (PPM) tools

Desirable Qualifications & Experience:

• Relevant degree or vocational qualification

• Professional certifications (e.g. P3O, PRINCE2, PMI)

• Experience supporting large business change programmes

In this role, you’ll be central to how we plan, govern, and deliver initiatives that truly make a difference. You’ll join a team that values integrity, continuous improvement, and collaboration.

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.

At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.

Apply today… It starts with you