Strategic Budget & Operations Lead (Remote)

Contechs Consulting; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Contechs Consulting is seeking a Chief of Staff and Budget Management for a 12 month contract. The role is remote, ideally commutable from UK towns, and focuses on supporting the VP Global Consumer Science with strategic planning, organizational design, and spend management.

You will oversee the Lead Team’s operations, coordinate salary and benefits planning, monitor annual spend, and partner with Finance to flag risks and opportunities. Strong data analysis and Excel skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years’ experience and a Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative discipline such as finance, accounting, economics, data science, analytics.
• Must have experience in project management, project and organisation planning within a commercial organisation.
• Ideally familiar with Client project management systems and processes
• Strategic thinking, while having ability to excel in leading tactical activities
• Highly action oriented, drive for results, innovative, challenging status quo
• Excellent communication (verbal & written)
• Must be skilled at prioritization and have solid decision-making capabilities
• Must have experience managing data sets in excel environment with focus on data insights
• Experience working with large sets of advanced analytics platforms and data is a plus
• Must be comfortable with level of confidentiality required particularly with organisation planning (design and cost) and salary and benefit cost discussions.

Responsibilities

• Manage operational and technical elements of the Consumer Science Lead Team
• Work with People Lead to drive planning of Salary and Benefit package
• Track spending across all people and non-People cost packages throughout the year to ensure Global Consumer Science is within budget.
• Work closely with Finance to identify and flag potential risks and opportunities and help prioritize the spend across the function.
• Work with Global category planners to better manage our forecasting and budget tracking throughout the year.
• Work with Finance on AC monthly and other reviews
• Work with the VP Global Consumer science to run analysis on the Organization to ensure the Org Design is best utilizing the resources and talent.
• Provide timely updates on budget and resources and identify opportunities
• Monthly reporting on spend and organizational KPIs
• Lead Management of functional CAPEX budget

Skills

Budget management

Project management

Data analysis

Communication

Decision making

Prioritization

Confidentiality

Education

Bachelor's Degree in quantitative discipline

Tools

Excel

PM software

Job description

Contechs Consulting is seeking a Chief of Staff and Budget Management for a 12 month contract. The role is remote, ideally commutable from UK towns, and focuses on supporting the VP Global Consumer Science with strategic planning, organizational design, and spend management.

You will oversee the Lead Team’s operations, coordinate salary and benefits planning, monitor annual spend, and partner with Finance to flag risks and opportunities. Strong data analysis and Excel skills are essential.