Strategy Planning Specialist

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Full time
Location: Winchester
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Job offered by: Arqiva
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Location -

We operate a flexible, hybrid working model with the candidate required to travel to either our Winchester or London office up to twice a week.

We offer

Up to £80,000 base salary

10% bonus

5% pension contribution

Private Medical

25 days annual leave

Access to our comprehensive flexible benefits including discounts on big brands, wellness and employee assistance programmes, gymflex, buy and sell annual leave, travel and dental insurance

Work. Life. Smarter. Our commitment to a flexible and hybrid working culture

Overview

Manages and oversees the strategic planning and capacity management processes to ensure alignment between long-term goals and business capacity. Owns the creation of Technology-wide long-range progress updates to ExCo, and recommends allocation of resource to optimise limited availability, identifying capacity constraints and facilitating informed decision-making to support demand management.

The role

Owns long term (3 months onwards) resource planning onto product and project teams

Collaborates with cross-functional teams and senior leadership to understand requirements and gather inputs for long-range resource planning

Communicates long range resource, capacity, needs and gaps, as well as overall product portfolio progress updates to ExCo

Facilitates the process for demand and backlog management, and deploys resources as necessary

Develops, audits, and enables process governance for cross-functional teams as required

Owns detailed tracking, performance measurement, updating ‘plan of plans’, and communicating with ExCo

Owns the creation and collation of a CTO-wide progress report, with inputs from Product and Programme Managers

The person

Proficiency in capacity planning methodologies, tools, and techniques to forecast resource needs, identify bottlenecks, and optimise resource allocation

Understanding of resource management principles and practices to allocate resources effectively, balance workload, and prioritise initiatives based on strategic objectives

Strong analytical skills to analyse capacity and demand data, identify trends, and derive insights to inform resource planning decisions

PPM tool experience, e.g., ServiceNow PPM, Project Online, Project Server, or Clarity.

Expertise in PMO leadership with extensive knowledge of Executive Reporting, Project Delivery Methodologies, Risk & Issues Management, Quality Assurance, and Financial Management

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills to gather and summarise progress across Technology

Certified in either Project, Programme Management or PMO methodologies, such as PRINCE2, PMI, APM, MSP

Knowledge of agile principles and frameworks to integrate capacity planning into agile delivery models

Previous experience in transformation to product-led, cross-functional ways of working

Proven Portfolio/Programme Management Office experience, including PMO Management of large programmes

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