About the Role:

The Commercial team are responsible for the overall delivery of the Small and Medium Business P&L. The team has accountability for Pricing, Trading Performance, Governance, Planning, Commercial and Strategy, Reporting, Insight and Sales Enablement.

The Lead SMB Planning Manager is a leadership facilitation role. The role involves thinking about all the teams that need to come together to:

1.           Set the overall direction for SMB, ensuring alignment to the VMO2B direction

2.           Ensure that everything we do within SMB ladders up to this direction

3.           Hold the SMB teams to account to deliver our strategy and plans

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and run the long term planning processes to set the strategic direction for SMB (Budget and 3YP)
• Define and run the rolling planning processes, ensuring the long term strategic direction is translated into clear and actionable operational plans
• Work cross functionally to ensure the SMB long term and rolling planning ladder up to the overall Business divisions strategy and priorities
• Run frameworks and define ways of working that ‘hold the business to account’, ensuring that plans are aligned back to the direction and strategy set
• Support the SMB leadership team in prioritisation and resource planning
• Program management and workshop facilitation for SMB projects and answering strategic questions. For example acceleration projects 
• Program management on trading and P&L close the gap activity ensuring the teams are held to account for driving performance

Key Skills:

• Problem solver (analytical and logical) - comfortable with ambiguous problems, being able to break down complex, meaty problems
• Prior experience in leading long and short term planning processes
• Experience in Project Management / Change Management / Process Improvement methodologies (i.e. Six Sigma, Lean)
• Exceptional organisation skills (Process and project management skills)
• Very strong stakeholder management skills, must be comfortable engaging across all levels of the organisation
• Strong presentation and storytelling skills
• Prior B2B experience is desirable 

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We’re looking to pay a great compensation package (depending on experience) for this position. We also offer plenty of extras to sweeten the deal, which could include things like bonuses, life assurance cover, health care and lots of flexible benefits.  

Also, every employee has their personal development supported with a LinkedIn learning account; plus other role specific learning available through our award-winning digital learning platform - O2 Campus. 

We also believe a great work-life balance is important, so we’re open to considering flexible working arrangements. Like to know more, feel free to raise it.  

Join us and we’ll encourage you to be bold every day. So take a deep breath, your career is about to go to exciting new places. 

If you have any questions around the role then please email ResourceTUK@o2.com who will be happy to help.