Planning Manager I Resource & Planning | Financial Services | Manchester 2 days a week
We’re currently partnering with a leading Financial Services organisation looking to strengthen its Change function with the appointment of an experienced Resource & Planning Manager.
This role sits within a large-scale transformation environment and will focus on enabling successful delivery across multiple programmes and business-critical initiatives by ensuring effective planning, prioritisation, governance, and resource allocation across Change, Technology, Data, and Operations teams.
You’ll play a key role in helping the business improve visibility, optimise resource utilisation, remove delivery bottlenecks, and ensure a joined-up and data-driven approach to programme delivery.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Managing resource and capacity planning across multiple change and technology initiatives
- Acting as a central coordination point between Change, Technology, Data, and business teams
- Supporting prioritisation, triage, and allocation of project and change demand
- Monitoring delivery progress, capacity, risks, and blockers across portfolios
- Building reporting, dashboards, and governance processes to improve visibility and decision making
- Working closely with delivery leads, PMO, and senior stakeholders to support effective programme delivery
- Using data-driven insights to forecast demand, identify resource constraints, and support hiring or outsourcing decisions
- Contributing to continuous improvement initiatives across planning, governance, and delivery
What We’re Looking For
- Proven experience within Resource Management, PMO, Portfolio Planning, or Delivery Management environments
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience supporting large-scale transformation or technology programmes
- Strong understanding of resource planning, capacity management, governance, and prioritisation
- Comfortable working across Change, Technology, Data, and Operations teams
- Experience with tools such as PowerBI, Excel, Azure DevOps, Planner, or similar delivery/reporting tools
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage competing priorities
- Experience within Financial Services or Insurance environments is highly desirable
Environment
This is an opportunity to join a highly collaborative transformation environment where Change, Technology, Operations, and business teams work closely together to deliver large-scale strategic initiatives.
The business offers strong long-term progression, exposure to enterprise-wide programmes, and the opportunity to play a key role in improving how delivery planning and resource management operates across the organisation.
For more information, please apply or get in touch directly.
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