BUSINESS PLANNING MANAGER JOB DESCRIPTION

Annual planning cycles do not run themselves. A Business Planning Manager owns the rhythm that keeps strategy connected to execution, translating multi-year roadmaps into quarterly OKRs, managing cross-functional planning cadences, and holding functional leaders accountable to the targets they signed off on. Hard. The role sits at the center of the planning architecture, partnering directly with C-suite and ExCo stakeholders while coordinating input from finance, commercial, and operations teams. Where an FP&A Manager focuses on financial variance and a Strategy Manager focuses on long-horizon positioning, this role owns the governance layer that makes both actionable.

As the Business Planning Manager, you translate organizational strategy into structured, time-bound operational plans and own the enterprise planning process from annual budget alignment through quarterly reforecast and performance review. You partner with functional leaders and report to a Finance Director, Chief Planning Officer, or equivalent, coordinating across business units to ensure plans are integrated, deviations are escalated, and corrective actions are tracked to closure.

Career Impact: Owning the enterprise planning process at mid-to-large organizations builds the cross-functional authority and OKR governance fluency that distinguishes senior planning leaders from financial analysts.

Business Impact: When quarterly reforecasts miss their cadence or functional plans drift from the five-year roadmap, leadership loses the visibility needed to act; this role is what keeps that visibility intact.

Growth Opportunity: The path from Business Planning Manager runs directly toward Business Planning Director, Chief of Staff, or VP Strategy roles, with demand-planning and S&OP platform experience adding significant market value.

• Own the end-to-end annual planning process, from strategic objective-setting through quarterly change control and performance reporting.
• Translate multi-year strategy and five-year roadmap milestones into functional business plans with defined outcomes and financial profiles.
• Facilitate cross-functional planning cadences, including management committee meetings, business review cycles, and OKR tracking sessions.
• Conduct market and competitive analysis using SWOT frameworks, scenario modeling, and sensitivity assessments to inform planning assumptions.
• Develop executive-level presentations and written analyses that synthesize complex planning data into clear, decision-ready recommendations.
• Monitor performance against approved plans, identify material variances, and coordinate corrective-action responses with finance and operational partners.
• Support business case development and governance assurance for new strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise-wide financial and planning frameworks.
• Partner with Finance, FP&A, and Commercial teams to integrate financial budgets, sales forecasts, and operational plans into a unified enterprise planning view.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent work experience.
• 5 or more years of business planning, corporate strategy, or management consulting experience, with direct ownership of a formal planning process.
• Demonstrated ability to build and present structured financial models, scenario analyses, and executive-level communications.
• Experience managing cross-functional planning cycles in a matrixed organization, including stakeholder alignment across finance, commercial, and operations functions.
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills with the ability to draw conclusions from multiple data sources and translate them into actionable recommendations.
• Proven project management capability, including the ability to define timelines, assign responsibilities, track deliverables, and escalate risks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated experience presenting findings to senior executives and board-level stakeholders.
• Proficiency in advanced financial modeling and data analysis, including working with large datasets and building decision-support tools.

• Master's degree in Business Administration, Economics, or a related quantitative discipline.
• Prior experience in management consulting at a recognized firm, with exposure to enterprise performance management or OKR design.
• Familiarity with integrated business planning platforms and enterprise reporting tools, including BI and ERP environments.
• Experience working across international or multi-region organizations, particularly in APAC, European, or North American market contexts.

• Forecast accuracy rate across business segments, measuring deviation between approved plan and quarterly actuals.
• Planning cycle on-time completion rate, tracking whether functional plans are submitted and approved within defined governance windows.
• OKR attainment percentage across functional groups managed within the planning framework.
• Number of business cases successfully advanced through governance review with full financial and strategic validation.
• Variance-to-plan closure rate, reflecting how consistently identified deviations result in documented corrective actions within agreed timelines.

• Base Salary Range: $115,000 to $155,000 annually, depending on seniority and market
• Bonus: Annual performance bonus, typically 10 to 20 percent of base salary
• Equity: Equity participation is common at larger or publicly traded organizations
• Health Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• PTO: 15 to 20 days annually, plus standard public holidays
• Common Perks: Hybrid or remote flexibility, professional development budget, EAP access

Figures are estimates based on general US market benchmarks and may be outdated. Adjust based on location, company size, and seniority level.

Work authorization in the United States is required; all employment offers are contingent on successful verification. Pre-employment background screening is a standard condition of hire. All applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process are encouraged to make that request during the application stage.

The Business Planning Manager shapes the enterprise strategic planning cycle by developing, analyzing, and reporting on business plans and OKRs across business lines and market segments within the health insurance and health plan payer industry. Reporting to senior executives, this role owns the ongoing evaluation of plan execution performance and delivers findings and recommendations that enable informed decisions at the executive level.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist responsible executives and senior managers in developing profitable growth and new solution strategies to achieve short- and long-term goals and objectives.
• Assist in the development and execution of plans by business line, market segments, and business functions with clear objectives and measurable key results.
• Conduct market research, analyze the environment and industry trends using data analysis, qualitative studies, SWOT analyses, options evaluations, and feasibility assessments.
• Develop, analyze, and report on business plans and OKRs with supporting communications.
• Evaluate the execution of plans on an ongoing basis by creating reports and analyzing performance of strategies and business plans for review by executives and senior management.
• Identify viable strategies, impactful improvements, and threats with findings or recommendations on an ongoing basis.
• Manage, maintain, and administer a business planning software program by maximizing and continuously enhancing the tool to increase efficient and effective use.
• Collect and coordinate the enterprise strategic plan that cascades to aligned and accountable functional plans for execution, performance reporting, and management.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, marketing, healthcare, or a related field.
• Master's degree in Health Administration is preferred.
• Minimum of five years of experience in the industry or as a consultant on major strategic planning projects.
• Prior experience in strategic or annual business planning.
• At least three years of project management experience with the ability to lead and manage large, complex processes and projects.
• Proficient working knowledge of PC and office software applications.
• In-depth knowledge of the health insurance and health plan payer market.
• Solid understanding of the entire health plan payer value chain, operational and financial business model, and business forecasting strategies and techniques is a plus.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, and critical thinking skills, with strong attention to detail.
• Proven ability to analyze information, evaluate various sources of data, and draw viable conclusions based on objective judgment.
• Ability to think creatively and develop alternative solutions for a given problem.
• Excellent reporting, written communications, and presentation skills for a variety of management levels.

Embedded within a cross-functional strategy organization, the Business Planning Manager delivers structured problem-solving, executive-level analytics, and long-term planning support to senior business leaders. Working closely with key business leaders and cross-functional teams, this role leads financial modeling, scenario analysis, and process documentation that drive organizational direction and performance across product and operational initiatives.

Core Functions

• Drive and facilitate internal mid- and long-term planning processes and the rhythm of business.
• Synthesize recommendations and understand their impact on the business.
• Lead projects, working closely with key business leaders to understand key business issues and structure problem-solving approaches.
• Partner closely with key business leaders to ensure they are on target to deliver on expected work product and stay on track within defined plans.
• Raise risks, issues, and dependencies for off-track teams.
• Structure analytical problems and extract and analyze data.
• Oversee and build financial and other decision-making models.
• Construct executive-level presentations and present complex analytical findings in a clear, concise, and decision-impacting manner.
• Combine business reporting into concise, digestible views.
• Provide an independent strategic view on the health, direction, and efficacy of product initiatives.
• Perform scenario and sensitivity analysis to enhance decision-making across a range of options.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to analyze and document existing processes, recommend optimal solutions, and implement new improvements.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in business, economics, statistics, or other quantitative fields, or equivalent experience.
• Master's or advanced degree in business administration or a quantitative field is preferred.
• Eight or more years of experience in management consulting at a top firm, or in strategy, product management, program management, or an equivalent role.
• Familiarity with tech, telecommunications, or consumer businesses.
• Proven track record of driving organizations to success with strong organizational skills and close attention to detail.
• Ability to break complex, ambiguous problems into pieces using a hypothesis-driven approach and to structure multiple work streams while identifying interdependencies.
• Ability to oversee and perform a broad array of analytic capabilities, including descriptive analytics on large data sets, predictive analytics, and complex modeling.
• Ability to build logical narrative structures independently tailored to executives and create compelling visualizations.
• Proficiency with reading and understanding the implications of income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements.
• Ability to lead small teams on a project basis and identify areas of strength and opportunity in others.
• Ability to contextually modulate language and message to tailor to audience up to C-level.

Reporting to senior leadership, the Business Planning Manager owns the full business planning process, including strategic budget planning, quarterly forecasting, and the delivery of sales performance analysis and competitive intelligence to drive growth and competitive advantage. Partnering with sales and supply chain teams, this role supports the execution of strategic projects and ensures data accuracy across management systems in a chemical industry context.

Primary Duties

• Own the business planning process, including strategic budget planning, quarterly forecasting, and regular business review.
• Serve as the center of expertise for sales data and analysis, owning tasks such as sales reporting and analysis, incentive plan target setting and calculation, and enhancing system data accuracy.
• Analyze and synthesize market and competitive intelligence using internal interviews, secondary research, and market reports.
• Support business management by organizing and facilitating management meetings and optimizing the management process.
• Provide business reports and presentations to senior leadership.
• Track and analyze new business performance.
• Support the execution of strategic projects and initiatives to drive growth and sustain competitive advantages.
• Oversee all available business planning-related resources in the department.

Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, engineering, economics, or finance; an MBA is a plus.
• Minimum of eight years of working experience in a relevant industry with proven business analysis and planning responsibility.
• At least three years of managerial or supervisory experience.
• Strong knowledge and experience in the Chinese chemical industry, particularly in coatings and adhesives chemicals, is a plus.
• Experience with relevant enterprise and management systems.
• Strong analytical ability and good business acumen.
• Solid hands-on experience with business analysis and management systems, including Excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• Fluency in English and Mandarin is required.

Sitting at the intersection of business development strategy and financial analysis, the Business Planning Manager leads the development of detailed business proposals, investment return calculations, and go-to-market strategies in collaboration with local market leaders to align new opportunities with organizational goals. Operating across cross-functional projects end-to-end and engaging senior stakeholders and potential business partners, this role delivers the analytical rigor and strategic recommendations that determine which business opportunities the organization pursues.

Duties

• Conduct market research to evaluate a wide spectrum of new business development opportunities.
• Develop business development strategies in collaboration with local market leaders, including the preparation of full business plans covering market and competitor analysis, financial analysis, product and service analysis, and go-to-market strategies.
• Develop detailed business proposals and research relevant intelligence to support them, and estimate the effort and resources required to pursue business opportunities.
• Ensure business opportunities align with organization-wide goals and objectives.
• Provide recommendations to senior management to drive decision-making on business opportunities, including alternatives to business proposals where applicable.
• Calculate investment returns and conduct financial analysis, including cash flow projections, revenue models, and cost-impact analyses for potential projects.
• Coordinate cross-functional projects end-to-end, from timeline and deliverable planning through to tracking and reporting.
• Recommend functional expertise to design the capabilities required by new ventures, including product development, sales and marketing, logistics, and customer care.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or above in business, finance, marketing, engineering, analytics, or a related field.
• Six or more years of experience in business analysis, business intelligence, or consulting.
• Strong experience with financial modeling and business analysis.
• Exposure to or experience with marketing, branding, or a related discipline is an asset.
• Track record of owning, driving, and closing projects from inception to execution, including valuation, diligence, deal engineering, and leading negotiations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to research and uncover the fundamental drivers of market change.
• Ability to translate analytics into insights and recommendations.
• Flawless presentation skills and the ability to lead strategic conversations with senior stakeholders and potential business partners.
• Ability to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing.
• Fluency in Mandarin, Cantonese, and/or Korean is a plus.
• Ability to work with uncertainty and change, with strong executive functioning and organizational skills to drive action-oriented insights and deliverables.

A key member of the commercial finance team, the Business Planning Manager builds and executes annual growth plans with retail partners, leads the quarterly and four-year sales and margin planning process, and runs regular business review cadences with leadership to track progress against goals. Collaborating across sales, supply chain, and the brand team, this role identifies gaps versus targets and partners with senior leadership on strategic growth opportunities and financial modeling to sustain competitive positioning in wholesale and e-commerce channels.

Functions

• Build and execute annual growth plans with retail partners as a strategic partner to sales.
• Build the monthly gross-to-net, sales, and margin forecast with sales and supply chain teams.
• Compile retailer point-of-sale reporting and trend analysis to propose adjustments and other actions.
• Create sales targets by category and ensure alignment with current financial plans.
• Develop and maintain the scorecard and other reports to track progress against goals.
• Identify gaps and opportunities versus targets and recommend action plans to the sales leadership team.
• Build and maintain strategic partnerships that support mutual growth.
• Drive the quarterly, annual, and four-year sales and margin planning process.
• Run a regular cadence of business review meetings with leadership.
• Serve as a key partner in the sales and operations planning process.
• Support the brand team with pricing analysis and seasonal cost and margin targeting.
• Partner with senior leadership on short- and long-term strategic growth opportunities and financial modeling.
• Support the e-commerce launch with planning and reporting.

Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance or management; an MBA is a plus.
• Five or more years of diverse experience in commercial finance, operations, planning, strategy, or a related functional area.
• Financial modeling and scenario planning experience.
• Experience within wholesale and e-commerce channels.
• Knowledge of financial reporting systems, with SAP BI and/or BPC preferred.
• Advanced modeling skills in MS Excel and proficiency in PowerPoint.
• Strong acumen in ERP systems, with SAP preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively interact with senior management.
• Results-driven, with the ability to act as a change agent and think strategically.

Optimized inventory turns, cost reduction, and consistent customer support depend on the Business Planning Manager, who plans inventory strategies and vendor loading across multiple product families and manufacturing sites within the semiconductor industry. Based within a manufacturing planning organization, this role develops vendor monitoring tools, directs internal test site loading, and establishes operational objectives to ensure the planning team delivers sustained performance aligned with corporate goals.

Accountabilities

• Provide model and plan support for multiple product families utilizing multiple manufacturing sites.
• Plan inventory strategies to achieve inventory turn goals while ensuring a high level of customer support.
• Plan vendor loading over multiple time horizons to ensure appropriate unit support and maximize cost reduction opportunities.
• Develop and utilize vendor monitoring tools on an ongoing basis.
• Plan loading for internal test sites to ensure optimum loading of test equipment, consistent with inventory strategies.
• Generate staff development plans to ensure continued growth and contribution from the planning organization.
• Establish operational objectives and assignments consistent with corporate goals.
• Monitor and assess staff performance on a regular basis.

Technical Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA preferred.
• Eight or more years of direct manufacturing business planning experience in the semiconductor industry.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to ensure internal support for plans, maintain vendor relations, and provide timely and accurate information to management.
• Strong system skills at both a functional and strategic level.
• Ability to contribute to planning system selection and implementation.
• Ability to utilize system tools for both monitoring and modeling activities and to define reports as necessary to support changing business conditions.
• Proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Business Objects required.

As the Business Planning Manager, this role manages the capital project request process, accounts payable review, and monthly variance analysis support within a supply chain and finance operations environment. The finance and operations team relies on this work to ensure accurate quarterly forecasts, timely month-end close, and well-governed cost recovery and materials issuance processes across designated hub locations.

Activities

• Manage and evaluate staff effectively.
• Manage the capital project request process from project creation through approval.
• Manage the accounts payable process, including review of the voucher logs.
• Assist the regional analytics team in explaining variances to budget and forecast.
• Review compliance with policies, procedures, and controls as they relate to day-to-day transactions.
• Assist in the preparation of quarterly forecasts and the annual budget.
• Manage the purchase order process.
• Prepare and maintain detailed capital spending analysis.
• Support the month-end close process to ensure consistent, timely, and accurate completion.
• Manage the completion of daily cycle counts at designated hubs within the supply chain environment.
• Manage and guide the cost recovery process.
• Manage the evaluation process of materials issuances to contractors and in-house technicians.
• Prepare ad hoc information and reporting as requested by leadership.

Position Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance, or equivalent experience.
• Five or more years of experience in accounting, analysis, and budget preparation.
• Industry-related experience preferred.
• Two or more years of supervisory or leadership experience preferred.
• Knowledge of budget preparation and monthly variance analysis.
• Knowledge of general ledger software and database management systems.
• Ability to prepare, analyze, and interpret complex financial reports.
• Effective computer skills, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Access.
• Effective analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English.

Business Planning Manager advances market dynamics analysis and segment-level strategy development within a global life sciences or animal health organization, applying analytical frameworks and financial modeling to support strategic business topics and cross-functional portfolio projects. Success in the position means translating complex market intelligence into clear, actionable statements that strengthen the portfolio and drive commercial model innovation in cooperation with relevant functions and markets.

Operational Focus

• Maintain in-depth knowledge of market dynamics, including competitor analysis, market share, demographic trends, and growth projections.
• Support strategic business topics by conducting market dynamics analysis using analytical frameworks and financial modeling skills, and apply the analysis in developing strategies for individual market segments.
• Support the development of individual market segment strategic initiatives in cooperation with relevant functions and markets.
• Support cross-functional and cross-portfolio projects and priorities aligned with business objectives to drive commercial model innovation and strengthen the portfolio.
• Act as a trusted consultant to translate strategy and business management needs into analytics and further interpret them into clear, actionable statements.

Knowledge Skills & Abilities

• Bachelor's degree or advanced degree, including a Master's or MBA.
• Minimum of eight to ten years of working experience.
• Five to eight years of management consulting experience within a global consulting firm focused on life sciences, healthcare, or animal health, or within the pharmaceutical or animal health industry.
• Strategic planning and/or other analytical experience preferred.
• Solid data analytical, Excel modeling, PowerPoint, and presentation skills.
• Fluency in both English and Mandarin, oral and written.
• Excellent working attitude with strong accountability, agility, and a collaborative mindset.

The Business Planning Manager produces and administers the sales commission scheme, customer account management, and CRM-based reporting infrastructure by liaising with IT teams to extract data and enhance the sales support system for account planning and tracking. Reporting to sales operations leadership and working across account management and IT teams, this role ensures data integrity, system accuracy, and the operationalization of sales targets and account movement exercises.

Key Deliverables

• Liaise with the relevant IT teams to enhance the sales support system to enable sales account planning, tracking, and reporting.
• Administer customer account movements among account managers and sales teams.
• Review and control customer account creation to ensure it is carried out according to agreed sales engagement rules.
• Liaise with the relevant IT teams to extract data and reports from systems for analysis.
• Operationalize the sales commission scheme, including checking and investigating data integrity, extracting details upon salesperson requests, and managing sales target assignment.
• Support sales target setting, the sales commission scheme, and target acknowledgement exercises.
• Support annual account movement exercises.

Professional Experience

• University degree or equivalent in computer science, business, accountancy, finance, or a related discipline.
• Minimum of five years of relevant working experience with billing systems, business data warehouses, and CRM.
• Practical experience in programming, such as VB or Python.
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau.
• Proficiency in data mining or using query languages.
• Strong Excel skills with the ability to learn other analytic tools.
• Strong ability to understand, interpret, and transform policy and strategy into tracking methodology in systems.
• Sharp analytical mind with a strong drive to excel.
• Good business sense and strong teamwork skills.

Embedded within a cross-functional operations environment, the Business Planning Manager develops project teams, oversees implementation planning for strategic initiatives, and improves the validity of statistical and financial analysis supporting data-centered business activities. Working closely with related teams and external parties, this role assembles stakeholder communication, conducts project feasibility assessments, and maintains follow-up mechanisms to ensure delivery against agreed timelines and management priorities.

Areas of Ownership

• Oversee business delivery and reporting, tracking key indicators and actions from weekly management meetings.
• Conduct project analysis and prioritization for major projects and various operational activities.
• Assemble project teams, identify needed resources, assign responsibilities, and develop timeframes to facilitate the successful completion of project activities and deliverables.
• Identify stakeholders and ensure they receive the right level of information at the right time.
• Support project feasibility assessment and decision-making.
• Lead implementation planning for strategic initiatives.
• Develop a follow-up mechanism with related teams and external parties to ensure delivery of tasks.
• Improve the validity of statistical and financial analysis on data-centered activities.

Background & Experience

• Holder of a degree in business from a reputable university; an MBA is an advantage.
• Minimum of two to three years of professional experience in a Big 4 or similar business environment.
• Experience in media or related businesses, or demonstrable interest in the sector.
• Background in financial and business modeling is a plus.
• Fluency in English and Arabic.

Reporting to senior leadership, the Business Planning Manager leads cross-functional business projects requiring cross-business coordination and ensures smooth implementation of governance changes and internal programs driving cost synergies and productivity improvements. Partnering with the management committee and stakeholders across departments and levels, this role embeds and communicates ongoing business strategy and drives the efficient operation of governance structures within a listed or regulated business environment.

Role Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee cross-functional business projects that do not fit within an existing vertical or require cross-business coordination.
• Facilitate the efficient operation of the management committee, including ensuring outputs are shared appropriately, actions are carried out, results are monitored, and momentum is maintained with ongoing projects.
• Ensure smooth implementation of required governance changes and ongoing work to support effective governance.
• Ensure internal programs driving cost synergies, efficiency, and productivity improvements are effectively implemented.
• Support and drive internal activities that embed and communicate ongoing business strategy and key business changes.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience working with senior executives and/or board members, ideally within a listed or regulated business.
• Sound business acumen and commercial awareness.
• Ability to identify and work towards meeting wider organizational goals.
• Ability to work strategically and collaboratively across departments and levels.
• Ability to communicate effectively in writing and verbally with a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify and work towards practical solutions.

Sitting at the intersection of financial planning and live games performance analytics, the Business Planning Manager manages a team of analysts, develops quarterly reforecasts, and delivers comprehensive top-line performance analyses to financial communication teams within a gaming organization. Operating across the finance network and leveraging sales data and player KPIs, this role advances reporting tool enhancements and evolving analytical frameworks that increase predictability and support the Business Planning Director and Chief Financial Planning Officer.

Job Functions

• Analyze monthly actuals and develop insights from quarterly reforecasts.
• Update and maintain relevant KPIs and reports to understand top-line performance.
• Share outlooks regularly, identifying trends and patterns to increase predictability.
• Deliver comprehensive analyses of group top-line performance and perspectives to financial communication teams every quarter.
• Manage a team of analysts dedicated to live games and actuals variance analyses.
• Foster communication across the finance network and leverage all available expertise, including sales data and player KPIs.
• Contribute to the enhancement of reporting tools and the evolution of analytical frameworks to fit business model changes.
• Maintain regular reporting interactions with the Business Planning Director and the Chief Financial Planning Officer.

Qualifications & Experience

• Solid experience in similar positions with a background in leading financial teams.
• Knowledge of the gaming industry is a plus.
• Solid analytical and financial modeling skills with proficiency in budgeting and forecasting tools.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complexity into simple terms.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to meet short deadlines.
• Fluency in English and a cooperative mindset.

A key member of a complex matrix-management organization, the Business Planning Manager manages the end-to-end business planning process from annual plan setting through quarterly change control, developing materials for senior leadership on business plan drivers, performance, and corrective actions. Collaborating across strategy, commercial, finance, and portfolio teams, this role ensures the five-year roadmap and business strategy flow into governed, financially profiled business plans with defined outcomes across the programme portfolio.

What You'll Do

• Manage the end-to-end business planning process, from the setting of annual business plans through quarterly change control, ensuring alignment across the organization and reporting against performance.
• Manage within a cross-functional matrix team throughout the planning process to ensure plans are developed to agreed timescales and 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 aligned with business strategy, the pipeline of new activities, business priorities, and agreed planning assumptions.
• Ensure business strategy and the five-year roadmap flow into business plans with defined outcomes and financial profiles.
• Provide governance assurance for business cases to ensure structure and change control, and ensure new activities are appropriately validated and included in the quarterly forecast and business plan.
• Understand performance against plans, working with finance to ensure corrective action is included in the quarterly forecast.
• Develop and present materials for senior leadership on business plan drivers, performance, and actions.

Skills & Qualifications

• Extensive experience managing business planning processes and working in complex, matrix-management or multi-programme environments.
• Experience improving strategic business planning approaches and driving planning discipline and governance.
• Knowledge of Power BI is desirable.
• Highly organised, self-motivated, and able to manage and prioritise multiple competing requirements.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to intimately understand the business, its strategy, and its growth and cost drivers.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build credibility and influence with senior leadership and challenge upwards.
• Excellent written skills, data analytics ability, and attention to detail.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to work on own initiative to deliver against outcomes.

Strong commercial results and enterprise performance in a consumer goods or technology organization depend on the Business Planning Manager, who refines strategic and operational financial plans by translating industry movement analysis and competitor strategy assessments into actionable commercial and financial targets. Serving as a proactive partner to commercial teams, this role leverages a broad range of data and digital tools to drive scenario building, return-on-investment analysis, and cross-functional business development activities across diverse global teams.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Support the building of strategic plans based on the evaluation of data from industry movements and consumer behaviors.
• Translate strategic plans into operational business and financial plans and support their execution with commercial teams.
• Anticipate risks and opportunities from industry changes and assess their impact on the business.
• Prioritize impact by triangulating multiple data points, including governance factors and the changing needs of consumers.
• Assess competitors' strategies and articulate the potential impact on the business.
• Collaborate within finance and across functions to drive business performance by combining an understanding of strategic goals, commercial and financial acumen, and consumer behaviors.
• Hold commercial teams to account by asking the right questions and challenging or influencing commercial decisions using financial expertise and insightful analysis.
• Contribute to business and commercial scenario building with high-level financial assessment, including identifying trends and patterns to maximize return on investment.
• Partner proactively with commercial teams to define commercial and financial targets with insightful analysis to improve business results.

Required Qualifications

• Degree in finance, business administration, or a related discipline; professional certification is desired.
• At least ten years of proven experience in finance business partnering, including enterprise performance management and data analytics.
• Experience working within FMCG or technology is highly desired.
• Experience working in a customer-oriented organization.
• Proven experience in mining and applying a broad range of data and leveraging digital tools to derive critical insights.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen.
• Ability to think strategically by embracing complexity and ambiguity, and to translate opportunities into solutions for the organization.
• Excellent influencing and communication skills.
• Ability to drive and manage change.
• Ability to work effectively across diverse business, commercial, and global teams, with a track record of managing complex business relationships based on mutual gain and trust.

The Business Planning Manager owns forecast accuracy and bias improvement across all business segments and product lines, coordinating with supply chain, BI, and IT teams to maintain planning software and data quality. Reporting to senior leadership, this role builds the roadmap for process, software, and control mechanisms that enable smooth global execution of the integrated planning cycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive improvement of forecast accuracy and bias metrics across all business segments and product lines.
• Identify gaps in supply and demand alignment, lead teams to develop mitigation scenarios, and prepare recommendations for leadership review.
• Work actively with end users of the planning software to evaluate the user experience, escalate risks, and upgrade initiatives to system vendors on a regular basis.
• Collaborate with international and regional operations teams to enable smooth global execution and adoption of the planning software.
• Coordinate with business intelligence and IT teams to address planning system issues and data maintenance routines, including quality control and testing on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis.
• Support the overall roadmap to achieve objectives, including process, software, business intelligence tools, policies, and control mechanisms.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain or business administration.
• PMP or CPIM certification is a plus.
• Three to five years of professional experience in demand planning, S&OP, supply chain, or a planning analyst role, preferably in toy and/or apparel manufacturing.
• Minimum of one year of project management experience.
• Prior experience with Arkieva is a plus.
• Experience leading process improvements, achieving cost reduction, and driving business transformation, including implementing new planning software systems and processes.
• Knowledge of ERP systems, preferably Sage 3, SAP, or Oracle.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint, as well as Google Docs and other office suites.
• Ability to manage up, down, and across the organization, influence others, resolve conflict, recognize cultural differences, and adopt alternative methods.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to complete milestones and work towards multiple deadlines simultaneously.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.

Embedded within the business planning organization, the Business Planning Manager develops and deploys harmonized processes across all business functions to integrate financial, sales, and operations plans into a single leadership-aligned execution framework. Working closely with functional leaders and the planning organization, this role drives S&OP implementation, coaches future planning leaders, and holds cross-functional teams accountable to KPI delivery.

Core Functions

• Align budgeting and financial processes with controllers and financial planning and analysis functions.
• Participate in shaping supply and demand planning strategies, capabilities, and processes to improve integration and performance.
• Develop, deploy, implement, and support the post-implementation exploitation of harmonized processes across all business functions.
• Drive the development and execution of an integrated plan as the primary process used by the leadership team to align and synchronize priorities.
• Incorporate strategic planning and budgeting cycles into business planning.
• Integrate the financial plan, financial forecast, sales and marketing plans, and operations plans, linking strategic, operational, and financial goals.
• Ensure proper and efficient reporting and analysis on business planning performance to stakeholders.
• Partner with business leaders to ensure aligned priorities and continuous improvement of processes.
• Drive cross-functional process improvement to achieve excellence via process assessment tools and continuous improvement plans.
• Hold functional leaders accountable to deliver on KPIs.
• Coach and develop the planning organization to build future leaders and maintain organizational effectiveness.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, supply chain, business, or a relevant discipline.
• Minimum of five years of relevant working experience.
• Experienced in implementing and operating S&OP and/or business planning processes.
• Project management experience as project lead in small or medium-sized projects.
• Working knowledge of SAP systems and processes.
• Good understanding of commercial and integrated supply chain functions.
• Solid understanding of main functional end-to-end processes, including sales process and order-to-cash.
• Highly skilled in Lean Six Sigma methodologies and tools, including process development and change management.
• Proven track record in team leadership.

Reporting to the finance director, the Business Planning Manager leads the translation of strategic plans into operational and financial plans that support local market strategy, including scenario modeling and business case preparation for the country manager and category directors. Partnering with regional finance teams and shared service centers, this role converts consumer journey insights into financials and coordinates a small team of analysts to maintain disciplined business planning processes.

Primary Duties

• Lead the translation of strategic plans into operational and financial plans supporting local market strategy.
• Drive conversion of the consumer journey into financials and integrate findings into the business plan.
• Capture deviations versus plan, prepare corrective measures, and develop alternative scenarios.
• Act as business partner to the country manager, category directors, and management team via scenario modeling, business case preparation, and ad hoc analysis.
• Support pricing analysis and provide recommendations to the management team.
• Evaluate the impact of regulatory measures on business performance.
• Establish processes and ways of working for the team and for new product categories.
• Coordinate cooperation with regional finance teams and shared service centers.
• Lead a small team of analysts and report directly to the finance director.

Skills & Qualifications

• Degree in finance, business management, economics, or industrial engineering.
• Five to seven years of experience in finance, business planning, and/or strategy in international companies, preferably in FMCG or consumer business.
• Experience working in Power BI is beneficial.
• Experience in leading teams.
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
• Excellent understanding of the financial value flow.
• Good analytical skills with detail-oriented and logical thinking.
• Ability to influence decisions through engaging communication that highlights and explains insights effectively.

Sitting at the intersection of business model transformation and sales strategy, the Business Planning Manager designs SRM and trade investment frameworks and drives route-to-market execution to achieve OGSM objectives. Operating across cross-pillar and cross-functional teams on projects including channel investment guidance and business model innovation, this role delivers strategic recommendations to leadership that shape long-term demand strategy.

Duties

• Analyze the current business model and route to market across all channels to identify opportunities for sustainable and healthy growth.
• Drive business model and route-to-market transformation to achieve OGSM strategy.
• Design key SRM strategy, including trade price and channel investment guidance.
• Design trade investment strategy and implement a tracking system for SRM deployment.
• Define valuable KPIs toward long-term OGSM achievement.
• Collect and analyze internal and external data to derive insights supporting short- and long-term demand strategy deployment and execution.
• Work with cross-pillar and cross-functional teams on key projects, including route to market, SRM strategy, and business model innovation.
• Deliver strategic suggestions to the leadership team on SRM, future route to market, and structure planning.

Requirements

• Minimum of five years of working experience in a sales trade marketing role.
• Experience thriving in a rapidly changing environment where innovation.
• Strong organizing, communication, and coordination ability.
• Strong strategic and logical thinking ability.
• Good communication skills with fluent English in reading and writing.
• Creativity in generating ideas for quick response is crucial.

A key member of the APAC finance team, the Business Planning Manager oversees the regional strategic plan and FP&A requirements across multiple business units, delivering profitability recommendations and leading in-depth analyses of financial risks and opportunities, including mergers and acquisitions. Collaborating across functional teams and business units, this role leads business communication and ad hoc projects aligned with the strategic plan to drive financial improvement and growth.

Functions

• Oversee the APAC strategic plan and support FP&A requirements, including budgets and forecasts for multiple business units.
• Provide insights on business performance and put forward appropriate recommendations to improve profitability.
• Carry out in-depth analyses to evaluate financial risks and opportunities, including mergers and acquisitions.
• Work closely with other functional teams to drive financial improvement and business growth.
• Lead business communication and collaboration in line with the strategic plan and deliver results.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in finance or any business-related discipline, with an MBA as a plus.
• Eight to ten years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in a US multinational company with a focus on APAC markets.
• Experience in consulting firms is a plus.
• Strong business acumen with sound financial analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in MS Office applications.
• Self-motivated, mature, with good interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills.

Sustained revenue growth in the Legal vertical depends on the Business Planning Manager, who builds sophisticated financial models, leads business performance reviews, and evaluates new revenue-generating initiatives through detailed quantitative analysis and cross-functional collaboration. Based within the Finance team and reporting to executive leadership, this role synthesizes complex business data into compelling recommendations and maintains visibility of the competitive landscape and emerging growth opportunities.

Accountabilities

• Build sophisticated financial models and develop business plans to address complex opportunities.
• Identify performance KPIs, track and measure results.
• Lead business planning and business performance reviews.
• Synthesize and present recommendations to management.
• Create compelling presentation materials to communicate key learnings and recommendations to senior executives.
• Proactively develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and partners across the organisation.
• Maintain visibility of the competitive landscape and track and report on emerging trends, new business models, and growth opportunities.
• Partner with functional teams to assess and plan new initiatives, provide buy-versus-build and strategic alternatives analyses, and manage projects across the full lifecycle.

Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, strategic planning, data analytics, or mathematics, with an MBA as a plus.
• Seven or more years of experience in financial analysis, strategic planning, and data analysis.
• Experience working with and presenting to executives.
• Demonstrated ability to think critically about business models, financial performance, and operational performance.
• Exceptional analytical and financial modeling skills.
• Highly proficient in Excel and presentation applications.
• Highly motivated, organised, and able to work within specific deadlines.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work well with a diverse team.

As the Business Planning Manager, this role supports strategic action assessment across functional managers, including profitability analysis by product and customer segment, sales performance monitoring, and the development of pricing processes aligned with headquarters direction. The sales and business operations team relies on this work to improve distributor transitions, track approved investment initiatives, and deliver ad hoc analyses supporting new market development and business divestiture decisions.

Key Deliverables

• Work with functional managers on assessing and executing strategic actions, including identifying, analyzing, and developing models and projections.
• Articulate progress and results reports to key stakeholders.
• Support quarterly and annual budget planning, strategic planning, and risk scenario planning.
• Analyze profitability by product, customer, and managed segment.
• Track approved investment initiatives and progress.
• Review the feasibility of marketing programs and sales process activities.
• Review and monitor sales performance indicators.
• Monitor pending orders and specific customer requests, and provide solutions to ensure excellent customer service and experience.
• Improve the sales support process to ensure seamless transition and operation for distributors and direct customers.
• Perform sales and pricing analysis, and develop sales and pricing processes aligned with headquarters direction.
• Prepare ad hoc analyses to support business decisions, including new market development, business divestiture opportunities, and rate-volume and pricing analysis.

Background & Experience

• Degree in business, marketing, or related subjects.
• Minimum of ten years of related experience in business planning, business control, or equivalent.
• Minimum of five years of managerial experience, including leading and mentoring teams of at least ten people.
• Knowledge of principles and methods of marketing strategy and sales processes.
• Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, leadership, and coordination of people and resources.
• In-depth understanding of sales principles and customer service practices.
• Factory automation industry and manufacturing knowledge.
• Strong planning and analytical skills, including the ability to provide analysis of countermeasures.
• Ability to identify sources of business, propose strategies, and establish and maintain sales accounts.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Strong multitasking, teamwork, and motivational skills.
• Excellent presentation, influencing, organisation, and communication skills.

Business Planning Manager supervises daily T&I operations and manages the full lifecycle of project governance artefacts, including schedules, risk registers, dependency mapping, and requirement traceability matrices. Success in the position means maintaining JIRA dashboards, implementing governance standards across project workstreams, and ensuring all committee submissions meet quality and timeliness requirements in support of the Head of Department.

Scope of Work

• Maintain JIRA dashboards for platform workstreams and ensure timely closure of issues.
• Proactively maintain various work libraries for quality and completeness, including auditable approval trails.
• Prepare, manage, maintain, and track the quality of key management artefacts, including project schedules, risk and issues registers, dependency mapping, resource plans, and requirement traceability matrices.
• Provide effective support to the business planning manager, including meeting scheduling, minute taking, and stakeholder liaison.
• Prepare status reports for stakeholder requirements and the programme office.
• Implement governance standards across the project, including tracking, monitoring, and updating the status of project deliverables.
• Ensure project management tools are up to date, including project status, milestone status, and RAID items.
• Ensure all submissions to committees and working groups are of the right quality and submitted on time.

Professional Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Eight or more years of business management experience.
• Experience with agile frameworks, including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Extreme Programming, LeSS, and SAFe.
• Experience creating detailed reports and giving presentations.
• Understanding of agile practices and experience using agile tools such as JIRA.
• Excellent planning, organisational, and time management skills.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to interact with diverse stakeholders and reach consensus.
• Multitasking ability with a track record of following through on commitments.

The Business Planning Manager produces data-driven workforce strategies for the global data center organization by applying quantitative analysis and people research to inform business decisions on headcount, attrition, and organizational growth. Collaborating with recruiting, HR business partners, finance, and data infrastructure teams, this role conveys complex people data insights to both technical and non-technical audiences and drives long-term improvement in data quality and tooling.

Strategic Responsibilities

• Apply expertise in quantitative analysis, people research, and data presentation to inform and influence key business decisions about the growth of the global data center organisation.
• Perform deep-dive analyses to deliver insights on the root causes of issues and make recommendations to drive changes in business strategy.
• Drive decision-making and prioritisation through data analysis, trend identification, and the production of optimised workforce strategies.
• Convey data-driven stories to technical and non-technical audiences around key business insights, in collaboration with recruiting, HR business partner, finance, and other cross-functional partners.
• Work with data infrastructure, tooling, and process teams to triage data quality issues and drive long-term improvement.
• Demonstrate judgment and discretion when dealing with highly sensitive people data.

Technical Qualifications

• Master's degree in organisational behaviour, organisational psychology, economics, or a related discipline.
• Eight or more years of professional experience in an analytical role emphasising data analysis or modelling.
• Three or more years of experience with SQL or equivalent.
• Three or more years of experience working with data visualisation tools, including advanced functionality such as data blending.
• Experience working with headcount and organisational people data, including attrition, recruiting metrics, and other people analytics.
• Experience processing, analysing, and interpreting data sets to make business recommendations and decisions.
• Experience working with HR and organisational people data systems, including Workday and Salesforce.
• Experience working with benchmarking data through research or benchmarking platforms such as Visier.
• Two or more years of experience working internally within an organisation of 500 or more professional employees in industries such as high-tech, financial services, healthcare, or biotech.
• Experience establishing and maintaining cross-functional relationships, managing communication, and working across multiple projects.

Embedded within the merchandising and finance organization, the Business Planning Manager develops a unified planning process for open-to-buy, stock, and sales management, delivering monthly category-level targets and building the reporting framework that tracks commercial performance across all business units. Working closely with IT, finance, and merchandising teams, this role leads data solution integration for ecommerce and drives data visualization to ensure accuracy and reliability of all planning outputs.

Role Responsibilities

• Establish one planning process for open-to-buy, stock, and sales management to ensure buying aligns with the sales plan.
• Deliver sophisticated target setting by division, category, and gender level every month.
• Establish a framework and reporting system to track the actual status of all commercial targets and call out risks promptly.
• Work with the finance team to complete target communication to business units.
• Work with the merchandising team to drive key category and franchise management and facilitate data analysis.
• Support the drive for a data solution to integrate ecommerce data, including sales, traffic, and operations data from different sources into one data platform with reporting via advanced tools.
• Ensure accuracy and reliability of all reporting and analysis results.
• Work with IT to enhance system usage per business needs.
• Propose process adjustments and improvements to enhance data tracking and visibility.
• Work closely with the merchandising and finance teams to deliver monthly and quarterly sales targets.
• Call out risks and take the lead to drive actions with different business teams.
• Participate in the development of the integrated data solution and drive data visualisation.
• Conduct regular data checks and validation to ensure the data upload process is working correctly.
• Set up and review daily plans with business teams and drive actions accordingly.

Minimum Qualifications

• University degree in business with a specialisation in information management, statistics, or computing.
• Minimum of five years of experience in business planning, business intelligence, or analytics for a multinational company, ideally in apparel, fashion, or luxury.
• Strong data analysis and planning skills.
• Strategic planning and critical thinking ability.
• Business acumen, especially for ecommerce.
• High degree of integrity and strong job ownership.
• Communication skills, relationship management, and empathy.
• Team player with demonstrated interest in training, coaching, and motivating team members.

Reporting to the general manager, the Business Planning Manager drives business performance analysis to identify market trends and delivers actionable reporting, analytics, and market intelligence to support go-to-market design and KPI and OKR frameworks. Partnering with cross-functional departments, this role creates and maintains programme specifications across work streams and initiatives to enable business growth and omni-channel strategy execution.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Report directly to the general manager and assist in planning and implementing new business strategies to cope with the changing business environment.
• Drive business performance analysis to identify trends and provide recommendations for improvement, including actionable insights, reporting, analytics, and market intelligence to support business planning and go-to-market design and implementation.
• Support business planning, including forecasting models, business models, and performance tracking models, with a focus on KPI and OKR design and review.
• Provide professional management reports regularly, including business performance reporting, campaign reviews, and ecosystem health analysis.
• Create and maintain project and programme specifications covering requirements, resourcing, work streams, schedules, milestones, and risk management.
• Work closely with cross-functional departments and initiate ideas for business growth.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Bachelor's degree in commerce, business, marketing, information technology, statistics, data science, or related disciplines.
• Minimum of four years of working experience, ideally including business and marketing planning and analysis, data-driven lifecycle management, user acquisition, growth and retention strategies, and digital marketing.
• Hands-on experience introducing or implementing operating models that enable omni-channel strategies.
• Experience in app-based, gaming, media, or community business is a plus.
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills.
• Excellent capability with Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Strong business writing and presentation skills and the ability to tell stories from data.
• Outstanding communication skills and confidence in presenting to senior executives and C-suite stakeholders.

Sitting at the intersection of financial planning and cross-functional business partnership, the Business Planning Manager develops complex financial models to forecast P&L performance, prepares operating plan reviews, and delivers weekly through quarterly analyses summarizing revenue and gross margin conclusions for management. Operating across business unit and finance leadership on short- and long-term strategic initiatives, this role monitors the sales pipeline and leads, mentors, and grows the planning team.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Partner with other departments to forecast and execute the P&L.
• Analyze complex financial information from various sources to size risks and opportunities and provide recommendations to executives.
• Prepare, report, and present operating plans and reviews of performance relative to prior plans and metrics.
• Develop and maintain complex financial models to forecast and support business objectives.
• Prepare presentations, weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports, and detailed analyses summarizing key business conclusions for management on revenue and gross margin.
• Participate in special projects as assigned.
• Partner with business unit and finance leadership on short- and long-term financial planning and strategic initiatives.
• Monitor the sales pipeline and communicate with sales and marketing on a daily basis to understand business progress and execute necessary actions in a timely manner.
• Act as a managerial liaison with relevant divisions.

Position Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required, with an MBA preferred.
• Previous experience in the computer industry preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good accounting and financial analysis skills preferred.
• Superior interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Microsoft Office proficiency with advanced Excel, PowerPoint, and Word skills.

A key member of the cross-functional business operations team, the Business Planning Manager develops supply allocation strategies across sales, marketing, finance, and operations to track shortages, align constrained supply with demand forecasts, and land quarterly revenue results as close to plan as possible. Collaborating across product planning, factory teams, and pricing managers, this role defines system service level targets and demand prioritization to support new product introductions and excess inventory management.

Job Functions

• Monitor and report supply shortages as they arise and identify constrained supply situations.
• Provide direction to sales, product planning, business operations, and factory teams regarding supply and allocation decisions.
• Collaborate with demand planning to align forecast with shortages and allocation across all regions.
• Collaborate with product management and marketing on product allocation for new product introduction and ramp.
• Collaborate with finance and business operations on meeting revenue targets.
• Work with sales and pricing managers on excess inventory opportunities for consumption.
• Help define system service level targets and demand prioritisation with operations.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's or master's degree in industrial engineering, supply chain, business administration, data analytics, or related fields.
• Experience with demand planning and/or product supply planning preferred.
• Ability to analyze processes and information, identify problems, and develop effective solutions and strategies.
• Ability to build consensus and relationships with management and team members across multiple groups.
• Excellent communication and conflict resolution skills.

Commercializing autonomous vehicle mobility-as-a-service depends on the Business Planning Manager, who builds short- and long-term business models, analyzes market trends and competitors, and evaluates business value to prioritize initiatives for the AV MaaS strategy. Serving as a strategic partner to the product requirement team, UI/UX designers, and agile development teams, this role prepares management-level strategy presentations and supports mid- and long-term product roadmap planning.

What You'll Do

• Analyze the overall market potential and identify business opportunities for AV MaaS business strategy.
• Build short- and long-term business model analyses and business cooperation models.
• Research and analyze market trends, competitors, and potential partners.
• Prepare strategy presentations for management discussion.
• Evaluate business value and prioritize initiatives accordingly.
• Support the product requirement team and product owner for mid- and long-term roadmap planning.
• Work closely with the product requirement team, product owner, UI/UX designers, and agile development team.

Technical Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required, with a master's degree preferred, in computer science or software engineering.
• At least five years of working experience as a business analyst or product manager in the internet, consumer electronics, IoT, or automotive industry.
• Working experience in consulting for OEM or Tier 1 companies for connected services is a strong plus.
• Knowledge of internet company business models is a strong plus.
• Strong analytical skills and experience with relevant tools.
• Good knowledge and skill in business process analysis.
• Proficient with innovation methodologies such as user journey mapping.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and conflict-solving skills.

As the Business Planning Manager, this role manages the full budget cycle for the marketing division, including developing next-year budgets, administering current-year budgets for the planning and administration department, and managing purchase orders to support marketing operations. The marketing division relies on this work to maintain compliant budget management flows and receive policy proposals that enable effective divisional planning and team competency development.

Operational Focus

• Manage team members and support the improvement of their competencies and performance.
• Create policy proposals to facilitate the marketing division in terms of business planning.
• Create and manage the budget management flow in the marketing division.
• Manage the development of the next-year budget for the marketing division and the planning and administration department.
• Manage the current-year budget for the planning and administration department.
• Manage purchase orders in the marketing division.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or relevant qualifications.
• Ten or more years of work experience.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel and Microsoft Outlook.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills with the ability to interact with people at all levels.
• Willingness and demonstrated ability to work in teams and be flexible.