Business Planning Manager

1 week ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Advantage Resourcing Full time

**Job title**: Business Planning Manager
**Location**: Manchester (hybrid working)
**Salary**: £59,000 -£65,912 + bonus and car allowance**
Duration**:Permanent

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Business Planning Manager to join a prestigious and well-respected organisation
**Key responsibilities include**:
Manage the end to end business planning process, from the setting of annual business plans, through to quarterly change control, ensuring joined up across the organisation and reporting against its performance.

Manage within a cross-functional matrix team - including Business Planning Points of Contact within each function (SPOC's), Finance (FBPs and FP&A), People and Portfolio teams - throughout the planning process, to ensure plans are developed to agreed timescalesand quality standards and that roles and responsibilities are understood and followed.

Develop key relationships with Strategy, Commercial and portfolio teams to challenge Functions and Programmes to create business plans in line with the Business strategy, pipeline of new activities, business priorities and agreed planning assumptions.

Ensure business strategy and 5 year roadmap / key milestones flow into business plans with defined outcomes and financial profiles.

Governance assurance role for Business Cases to ensure structure and change control and ensuring new activities are appropriately validated and are included in the quarterly forecast and business plan.

Understand performance against plans, working with finance to ensure corrective action is included in the quarterly forecasting.

Understand business plan drivers, performance and actions to ExCo including developing and building presentation decks / papers.

Support implementation of technology to empower the business to better forecast and self-service performance management tools.

Identify and drive continuous improvement initiatives across the business through identification of process deficiencies in the planning process.

Extensive experience of managing business planning processes and working in complex, matrix-management or multi-programme environments.

Experience in improving strategic business planning approaches, and driving planning discipline and governance.

Highly organised, self-motivated and able to manage and prioritise multiple competing requirements.

Excellent communication, interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to quickly build credibility and influence with the senior leadership team, to build strong relationships across the business, and the confidence to challenge upwards.

Strategic thinker, with the ability to intimately understand the business, its strategy, growth and cost drivers.

**If you are interested in becoming part of this growing success story please submit your CV now to be considered for the position.

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