Planning and Reporting Manager

Job Title: Planning and Reporting Manager Target Start Date: ASAP Contract Type: Permanent, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option available Salary Range: £44,800 - £67,200 Location: Hybrid, any UK office Closing Date for applications:  Tuesday 14th April

Planning and Reporting Manager: The role is responsible for supporting the Integration Management Office (IMO) by driving high-quality integrated planning, dependency management, and executive-level reporting across integration workstreams, maintaining and developing close working relationships with integration workstream leads and accountable Executives, including workstream and squad-level three amigos.

The role plays a critical part in enabling the IMO to maintain a clear, end-to-end view of integration delivery, ensuring plans are aligned, dependencies are understood and managed, and senior leadership has timely, accurate insight to support decision-making, using the appropriate programme tooling and the Ageas agile change framework.

This position operates on a hybrid working basis and will require travel within the UK as needed. Travel will be predominantly to Reigate, Eastleigh and London, with occasional visits to other Ageas or esure locations. Main Responsibilities as Planning and Reporting Manager: 

• Collaborate with individual integration workstreams to drive the development and ongoing maintenance of robust, aligned delivery plans, ensuring consistency of approach, structure, and planning standards across the integration.
• Support the delivery management cadence of the integration programme via preparation of high quality Executive-level reporting materials to effectively meet the programme cadence.
• Develop and own the planning for the integration, providing an end-to-end view of key milestones, critical paths, and delivery sequencing across workstreams.
• Support the establishment of the integration governance structure, terms of reference, and meeting cadence.
• Work closely with integration workstreams and squads to embed consistent use of methodology and IMO standards and templates for reporting into the appropriate governance forums.
• Identify, document, and actively manage cross-workstream dependencies, ensuring ownership is clear and impacts to scope, timeline, cost, risk, and customer outcomes are understood and addressed.
• Monitor progress against plans, tracking delivery performance, milestone achievement, slippage, and recovery actions, and ensuring changes to plans are controlled and visible.
• Advocate, develop, and drive the adoption of new ways of working and tooling across Ageas, including working in partnership with the QBR team.
• Develop and maintain high quality programme dashboards, KPIs, integration scorecards, and issue / risk summaries.
• Work with Risk Manager to maintain visibility of programme-wide risks, issues, and dependencies, ensuring escalations reach the appropriate stakeholders / forums as required.
• Prepare and deliver regular programme reporting updates from across the portfolio and translate them into clear, concise, executive-level reporting for IMO, Executive, and Board governance forums.
• Work closely with the Value Capture Lead and Value Capture and Cost Manager to support synergy identification, tracking and reporting (top-down and bottom-up) to feed insights into programme reporting materials.
• Support IMO governance by ensuring planning, dependency, and reporting inputs are fit for purpose and aligned to agreed governance and escalation routes.

Skills and experience you need as Planning and Reporting Manager:

• Prior experience working in large-scale, complex transformation programmes with scaled agile ways of working. 
• Deep integration planning expertise, including strong understanding of integration planning lifecycles, agile deployment and release management.
• Experience working within large programme governance environments, aligning planning, reporting, and issue / risk management to established protocols.
• Ability to define governance and frameworks that align with agile ways of working.
• Extensive experience in reviewing and analysing complex data with ability to distil data and information into clear conclusions.
• Sound knowledge of project management controls and disciplines including status reporting, risk management, planning and cost management and resource management.
• Broad experience in developing, producing and improving relevant management information and reports to Executive level.
• Ability to define, maintain and enforce governance cadence (e.g. across SteerCo, IDDA, leadership reviews, cross-workstream checkpoints).
• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills, especially with senior stakeholders
• Strong facilitation skills to align multiple workstreams to a unified integration plan.
• Strong domain knowledge and expertise across the insurance value chain.
• Highly proficient in the use of Word, Excel, MS Project, PowerPoint.
• Knowledge of Jira or other similar workflow tools is essential.
• Knowledge of Confluence, including ability to configure and integrate with Jira content.
• Strong business acumen and knowledge of the organisation
• Thorough understanding of change and development lifecycles.
• An ability to manage multiple tasks and initiatives in parallel, and to agreed timeframes, without compromising quality. 
• Ability to Manage and engage with a wide range of stakeholders.

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