Senior Corporate Planning Manager

We’re looking for a Senior Corporate Planning Manager to join our Corporate Planning team within the Finance & Assurance directorate. This is a critical leadership role responsible for designing, leading, and embedding a brand-new corporate planning process that will help turn our ambitious strategy into action. At Alzheimer’s Society, we are united by our mission to make a real difference to the lives of people affected by dementia. Within Finance & Assurance, our vision is to be the organisation’s single point of truth, trusted partners and credible experts who enable meaningful impact.

In this role, you’ll lead the development of a high‑quality corporate plan, aligning activity and financial planning through a “plan then fund” approach. You’ll work closely with senior leaders across the organisation, providing expert insight, driving collaboration, and ensuring planning processes are embedded effectively. This is more than a planning role – you’ll act as a coach, facilitator, and strategic partner, helping colleagues build capability while shaping how planning is understood and delivered across the Society.

We’re looking for someone who lives our values: determined to make a difference, a trusted expert, committed to working better together, and showing genuine compassion.

About you

• You’re a strategic leader with a strong background in corporate planning, data analysis, and organisational change.
• You’re confident working with senior stakeholders and can influence, challenge, and support decision‑making at the highest levels.
• You bring a collaborative and coaching mindset, with the ability to guide and upskill others in planning processes.
• You’re comfortable navigating complexity, bringing together data, insight, and people to create clear, actionable plans.
• You thrive in a fast‑paced environment, are driven by continuous improvement, and are passionate about delivering high‑quality outcomes that make a real impact.

You’ll have

• Strong experience leading corporate or strategic planning processes within a complex organisation.
• Proven ability to align financial and activity planning to support strategic delivery.
• Experience analysing and interpreting complex data to provide insight for senior stakeholders.
• Strong leadership and people management experience, with the ability to coach and develop others.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, with experience working at senior leadership level.
• Experience designing tools, templates, and processes that enable effective planning.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate complex information into clear, engaging outputs.
• A track record of driving continuous improvement and embedding new ways of working.

What you’ll focus on

• Leading the design and delivery of a new corporate planning process and end‑to‑end plan.
• Aligning activity and financial planning through a “plan then fund” model.
• Supporting the rollout of planning processes across the organisation and embedding change.
• Managing corporate planning communications and reporting requirements.
• Designing and delivering user‑friendly tools, templates, and frameworks for planning.
• Providing expert analysis of internal and external data to inform strategic decision‑making.
• Building strong relationships with senior stakeholders to drive engagement and collaboration.
• Coaching and training colleagues to strengthen planning capability across the organisation.
• Facilitating planning workshops with leaders and stakeholders.
• Developing and maintaining a centre of excellence for corporate and operational planning.
• Championing high standards, accountability, and continuous improvement across planning processes.
• Leading and developing team members, fostering a high‑performing, supportive culture.

Our commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We need to ensure the voices around our table better reflect and understand the communities we exist to serve. We strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under‑represented at Alzheimer’s Society. We want everyone we work with, as a colleague, volunteer, supporter, or someone we support, to feel included and that they belong at Alzheimer’s Society.

Giving back to you

Our employees work hard every day to make a true difference in people’s lives. We are proud to support them with a range of benefits, recognition and many options for working agilely, all contributing to a strong work life balance. We also have various learning programmes to support you in your development and help you grow to realise your potential and shape a career with Alzheimer’s Society.