Business Planner - Bristol/Hybrid

TN United Kingdom; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative organization is seeking a Business Planner to play a pivotal role in shaping corporate strategies. This position involves coordinating annual plans, ensuring accountability for deliverables, and enhancing business processes across the organization. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical and communication skills, enabling them to align various departmental objectives into a cohesive plan. This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to impactful projects while working in a collaborative environment that values diverse perspectives and promotes inclusivity. If you are passionate about strategic planning and process improvement, this is the role for you.

Qualifications

• Strong organisational, analytical, and communication skills are essential.
• Experience in coordinating and consolidating plans for leadership teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and coordinate planning processes for annual plans.
• Embed accountability within teams for delivery of milestones.
• Develop reporting mechanisms to track progress and risks.

Skills

Data Literacy

Digital Skills

Governance and compliance

Financial awareness

Health & Safety

Planning and organising

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Commercial awareness

Critical thinking

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Business Planner - Bristol/Hybrid, Bristol

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Client:

Brandon Trust

Location:

Bristol, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Logistics

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Posted:

05.05.2025

Expiry Date:

19.06.2025

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We're looking for a Business Planner to play a key role in delivering our corporate business plans.They interpret annual plans, develop milestones, and support the Wider Leadership Team (WLT) in being accountable for delivery.This includes coordinating and consolidating WLT plans into one cohesive organisational plan, identifying dependencies, and integrating resource and budget considerations.

The role ensures clear accountability for deliverables by coordinating, monitoring, and reporting progress to the Executive Leadership Team, Board of Trustees, and internal boards (Social Impact, People, and Digital).

It also involves identifying and improving ineffective business processes.Strong organisational, analytical, and communication skills are essential to align plans and processes across the organisation.

This role is a fixed term / secondment of up to 12 months

The Objectives of the role:

Annual planning and alignment

• Design and coordinate a planning process that produces comprehensive, cohesive, and strategic-aligned annual plans from each WLT member.
• Ensure all departmental plans are integrated into a single organisational plan aligned with strategic objectives and the three-year medium-term plan.
• Embed specific, measurable goals across all dimensions of the annual plan.

Milestone and delivery accountability

• Embed accountability within the WLT for delivery of milestones and commitments.
• Provide structured support and challenge to the WLT to ensure delivery remains on track.
• Create visibility of team milestones for internal boards (e.g. People Board) and Executive Boards, achieving 100% on-time, correctly formatted reporting.

Resource and capacity management

• Identify and address cross-organisational dependencies in planning and delivery.
• Coordinate resource management, reviewing project plans for capacity risks and escalating issues to the ELT for resolution.
• Work with department heads to allocate resources effectively and realistically.

Reporting and governance

• Develop and maintain reporting mechanisms that track and highlight progress, achievements, risks, and contingencies.
• Provide timely, accurate updates to the WLT, ELT, internal boards, and Board of Trustees.
• Collaborate with the Governance and Impact Manager to implement a clear, consistent reporting and assurance cycle.

Process and performance improvement

• Identify business processes that are unfit for purpose and develop improvement plans with clear ownership and outcomes.
• Implement business control enhancements to improve performance and support goal achievement.
• Ensure planning and reporting activities meet organisational policies and regulatory requirements.

Tools, capability and adoption

• Drive the organisation-wide adoption of Brandon’s Project Toolkit to support consistent implementation of plans and projects.
• Provide guidance and expertise to stakeholders using the toolkit to improve project planning and delivery outcomes.

The core skills we're looking for

Data Literacy

Digital Skills

Governance and compliance

Good financial awareness

Health & Safety

Brandon Values

Excellent planning and organising

Great Stakeholder management with great influencing skills and ability to network

Analytical skills with the ability to write and produce reports

Good understanding of commercial awareness

Critical thinking along with great systems knowledge

If you are interested please submit your application by Thursday 8th May 2025

Brandon Trust work alongside people of different ability so they are able to create opportunity and feel empowered to live the life they want.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and welcome applicants from all sections of the community.