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Strategy Planning Specialist

Strategy Planning Specialist

ArqivaLondon, England, United Kingdom
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
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

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