Planning Coordinator

Bupa; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Bupa is seeking a Planning Co-ordinator to enhance its Learning and Talent Acquisition team. This full-time role offers a flexible work environment, with key responsibilities including data analysis, resource planning, and stakeholder engagement. The ideal candidate will have strong analytic and problem-solving skills to facilitate effective decision-making.

Benefits

25 days holiday with options to buy or sell

Enhanced pension plan

Onsite gyms or local discounts

Bupa health insurance

Life insurance

Family-friendly benefits

Qualifications

• Background in planning or relevant transferable skills.
• Ability to provide clear and commercially sound recommendations.
• Experience with project work and process improvement.

Responsibilities

• Manage resource planning and scheduling processes.
• Ensure analysis of performance data for forecasting.
• Support facilitators during workshops.

Skills

Analytic skills

Stakeholder management

Problem-solving

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

£26.6k - £33.2k DOE and location + fantastic benefits

37.5 hours per week

We consider all types of flexibility, including locations, hours and working patterns.

Working in our UK support functions you’ll play a key part in helping our customer facing colleagues deliver exceptional standards of customer service and patient care. No matter your role, you’ll have an opportunity to do work that matters. Making a difference to the lives of our customers each and every day.

The role

The Planning team is an integral part of the Learning and Talent Acquisition team supporting the Bupa Global, UKI and Functions portfolio to maintain high quality learning and recruitment. As Planning Co-ordinator you will monitor current performance, carry out analysis of historic data, calculate effects of strategic or procedural changes, forecast work volumes, recommend staffing needs, identify opportunities to maximize utilisation of resource and supply performance data.

You’ll help us make health happen by

• Identify process recommendations to improve adherence and that they are working collaboratively with the Team Managers
• Manage the detailed resource planning and scheduling process
• Ensure timely and accurate analysis of previous performance data relating to work volumes, productivity levels, staffing availability and seasonal variances to facilitate informed future forecasting
• Provide support and guidance to the facilitators during workshops, including delegate management and feedback collection on specific planning issues
• Accountable for the production of accurate daily, weekly and monthly forecasting and resourcing reporting
• Ensure timely and accurate analysis is conducted on historic performance data relating to both internal workloads and the impacts of learning supplied

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role

• Background in planning in the global market, or relevant transferable skills and knowledge
• Ability to disseminate large amounts of information and provide clear and commercially sound recommendations
• Exposure to project work including demonstrating successful process improvement initiatives.
• Ability to use analytic programs to a proficient level i.e. Excel, PowerPoint etc
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at all levels
• Problem solver who takes ownership for tasks and overcomes barriers and finds solutions

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell

• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind

• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance

• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available

• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview for every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Time Type:

Full time

Job Description:

Planning Co-ordinator

Brighton, Manchester or Staines

Permanent

Hybrid, up to 3 days WFH

£26.6k - £33.2k DOE and location + fantastic benefits

37.5 hours per week

We consider all types of flexibility, including locations, hours and working patterns.

Working in our UK support functions you’ll play a key part in helping our customer facing colleagues deliver exceptional standards of customer service and patient care. No matter your role, you’ll have an opportunity to do work that matters. Making a difference to the lives of our customers each and every day.

The role

The Planning team is an integral part of the Learning and Talent Acquisition team supporting the Bupa Global, UKI and Functions portfolio to maintain high quality learning and recruitment. As Planning Co-ordinator you will monitor current performance, carry out analysis of historic data, calculate effects of strategic or procedural changes, forecast work volumes, recommend staffing needs, identify opportunities to maximize utilisation of resource and supply performance data.

You’ll help us make health happen by

• Identify process recommendations to improve adherence and that they are working collaboratively with the Team Managers
• Manage the detailed resource planning and scheduling process
• Ensure timely and accurate analysis of previous performance data relating to work volumes, productivity levels, staffing availability and seasonal variances to facilitate informed future forecasting
• Provide support and guidance to the facilitators during workshops, including delegate management and feedback collection on specific planning issues
• Accountable for the production of accurate daily, weekly and monthly forecasting and resourcing reporting
• Ensure timely and accurate analysis is conducted on historic performance data relating to both internal workloads and the impacts of learning supplied

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role

• Background in planning in the global market, or relevant transferable skills and knowledge
• Ability to disseminate large amounts of information and provide clear and commercially sound recommendations
• Exposure to project work including demonstrating successful process improvement initiatives.
• Ability to use analytic programs to a proficient level i.e. Excel, PowerPoint etc
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at all levels
• Problem solver who takes ownership for tasks and overcomes barriers and finds solutions

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell

• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind

• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance

• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available

• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview for every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

Administration

Locations:

Bupa Place

About the company

Bupa's origins and global headquarters are in the United Kingdom.

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