Senior Manager, Planning and Performance

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Job Title: Senior Manager, Planning and Performance

Location: London
Job Type: Full time

Agencies: We will only work with recruitment partners on our preferred supplier list and will not engage with speculative CVs submitted.

Are you passionate about making life science life changing and delivering impact for patients? We want to hear from you.

About the role:

This is a newly created role based in London, reporting to the Director of Strategic Planning and Performance.

This role will require the successful candidate to develop, communicate and implement the strategic plan aligning multiple workstreams and supporting the planning process for the organisation to develop 3-year operating plans, corporate goals and corporate KPIs.

Experience of report writing and policy development for science-based organisations is preferable. This role reports into the Finance Function, commercial experience is not required.

About you:

Responsibilities include the following:

• Developing a strong understanding of the organisation's ambition, strategic role as well as the individual strategies of the delivery teams and supporting services within the organisation.
• Working with other key enabling functions e.g. PMO, HR, Finance, Procurement, Legal, Technology to synthesis and prioritise plans to develop ambitious, but achievable multiyear plans aligned to the corporate strategy.
• Leading the operational enablement forum, in partnership with the Portfolio Managers, to manage the portfolio of business change initiatives ensuring projects are identified, prioritised, well planned, aligned, deliver value for money, and manage risk.
• Assist in development of policy, guidance, and systems to support the process.
• Looking across the organisation's resources to ensure that change plans and the operating rhythm of the organisation are in synch with each other.
• Delivering assigned elements of our corporate reporting requirements.
• Create a data collation process, making it clear and straightforward for people across the organisation to input performance, financial and impact data.
• Manage the delivery of reports throughout the year, including but not limited to, the Annual Report, Annual Yearbook, Board Reports, monthly KPI reporting, Impact Report, GPG Report and all other ESG and carbon reporting.
• Work closely with the Chief Communications Officer and General Counsel to ensure that all reports are delivered in appropriate formats, and in a timely manner for all Board Meetings.

Skills & abilities:

• Proven track record of delivering large scale complex operational plans of significant financial value.
• Outstanding planning and organising skills with ability to set clear expectations, drive accountability and the tenacity to drive plans/projects to conclusion. Ability to develop detailed delivery plans.
• Ability to interpret and evaluate business-related information and challenge assumptions critically and objectively.
• Experience of running senior stakeholder meetings.
• Experience of collaborating and working with and managing teams within a matrix model to design and deliver complex project plans.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Depth and breadth of strategic thinking capability, able to see the woods for the trees.
• Experience of designing operating and delivery models.
• Excellent planning, estimating, and forecasting skills.
• Excellent data analysis and reporting skills.
• Ensuring adherence to organisational policies, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Experience in proposal writing and being able to distil complex information into compelling proposals.
• Experience representing organisations externally, networking and building relationships.
• The ability to handle complex negotiations and conflict situations with confidence, openness and in a positive manner and is seen as a trusted expert.
• The ability to manage multiple projects and relationships with stakeholders (internal and external), each of whom may have a different perspective.
• Operational accountability for the forecasting and deployment of resources for a programme of works.
• Sets performance standards and establishes monitoring procedures.

Education & experience required:

• Degree /Masters level qualification
• Relevant qualification such as prince 2, APMP, PMP, Managed Service Providers
• Managing large scale building projects
• Life Sciences/health care industry experience desirable
• ESG experience

About us:

At LifeArc, our ambition is to make life science life changing. We do this by advancing scientific discoveries beyond the lab, faster, so that they can shape the next generation of diagnostics, treatments, and cures.

Working at the cutting edge of translational science and as the early-stage translation specialists, we progress scientific discoveries on their journey to becoming a medicine, diagnostic or intervention that improve patients' lives. Our work begins by seeking out innovative science, then helping to develop this to a point where there is a clinical and commercial pathway for others to invest the time and money to take it further forward.

What we can offer you:

Focused on finding life changing solutions for underserved patients, our people thrive in an inclusive, and supportive environment that prioritises their health and wellbeing. Our multidisciplinary approach guarantees our people growth opportunities, while our culture of innovation and collaboration drives the impact we make delivering on our purpose of 'putting patients at the centre of everything we do'.

We are dedicated to creating a diverse, flexible, equitable and happy work environment so our colleagues can thrive as their truest selves. We act with courage, curiosity, care & commitment to deliver quality & excellence for our patients and each other Join us, and you'll be given the scope to develop your professional skills and experience in a safe, supportive and challenging environment

Salary will be determined by qualifications and experience along with other exceptional benefits. Because we understand everyone has different requirements, our flexible benefits allow you to choose those which are important to you. Our pension scheme offers employer contributions of up to 12%, private health insurance, and annual leave of 31 days PLUS bank holidays.

Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people from minority ethnic backgrounds, for example, are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At LifeArc we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so whatever your background or lived experience, if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. Our top priority is finding the best candidate, and you may be just right for this or other roles.

We all have potential. At LifeArc, you'll discover what you can really do with it.