Strategy Planning Specialist

Job Description

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
  
  

Why join Arqiva? We are the undisputed leader in UK TV and radio broadcast, and the UK’s leading Smart utilities platform. This means we have a strong heritage and foundation for future growth for you to grow your career with us.

Our journey is to transition global media distribution to cloud solutions, where we aim to double our revenue and continue to grow by being an innovator of scalable solutions for new connectivity sectors. We have opportunities in new technology applications and products, you will have opportunities to learn and develop with us.

Your wellbeing…. Our wellbeing mission is to help our people to be the best version of themselves at work and still have the time and energy to live a full life outside of work.

Our focus for 2024 is to Win, Grow, Go Faster – find out more, contact us and apply!

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