Central Planning Manager in Bristol

Location: Hub based! Bristol, London or Glasgow. But you have the flexibility to work wherever suits you best.

Team: Central Planning Team

Salary banding: £42,500 - £53,000

Experience: Mid level

Working pattern: Full-time

Reporting to: Central Planning Manager

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Ownership, Detail orientated and focused.

Top 3 qualities for this role: Communication, Stakeholder management and Resilience.

Closing date: Friday 12th June at 12pm.

Where you’ll work: Depending on the needs of your business area, we expect hub based people to be in the office at least once a week, and to go to OVO Connection events in-person. You’ll be assigned to the closest one of our three hub offices, Bristol, Glasgow, or London; unless your role requires field-based work. Each hub has accessible spaces to park your laptop, is designed to inspire people, help them connect and bring big ideas to life.

Everyone belongs at OVO: At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet: Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here’s how: You’ll be working as part of the Central Planning Team within OVO Retail and will be at the heart of enabling the planning for customers for the OVO business. You’ll champion customer excellence and be empowered to make a difference on a global scale through enabling our Plan Zero objectives.

You’ll work as part of the Resource Planning Team reporting to the Senior Central Planning Manager and help develop world-class plans that challenge the business to keep moving forward and work across our wider function and our Operations stakeholders to deliver our collective goals.

This role in a nutshell: You'll be responsible for developing standardisation for COO estate, operational build and management of Supply & Demand plans across functional areas. Supported by Planning Analysts, you'll ensure delivery of robust end-to-end planning solutions from 15 minutes through to long range projections, that will enable the successful delivery of OVO's business objectives. With responsibility for delivering solutions that protect operational service levels, managing against agreed budget envelopes auditing & monitoring any variance drivers in order to react and plan accordingly. You’ll be tasked with building rigor in planning, accurately forecasting supply & demand, and ensuring resource requirements & staffing solutions are defined to ensure OVO Energy delivers world class service to its customer base. You'll also be proactive and collaborate on key change initiatives, migrations, product launches, partnering to ensure flawless execution of the plan and attainment of our agreed KPIs.

Your key outcomes will be:

• Strategic Forecasting & Financial Management: Model Optimization, Budgeting & Re-forecasting, Financial Accountability.
• Operational Alignment & Execution: End-to-End Planning, Partner Coordination, Risk Mitigation.
• Stakeholder Business Partnering & Insight: Data Storytelling, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Strategic Challenge.
• Resource & Capacity Management: Capacity Ownership, Change Impact Modeling.
• People Leadership & Continuous Improvement: Team Development, Operational Excellence.

You’ll be successful in this role at OVO if you have:

• Proven expertise in resource and capacity planning, spanning long-range strategic outlooks down to intraday staffing.
• Advanced data analytics skills with a strong grasp of commercial strategy and financial performance; able to translate data into data-driven business decisions.
• Outstanding analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a track record of identifying underlying trends and building solutions that balance risk and reward.
• A proactive, high-energy leader capable of delivering results both directly and by empowering others.
• Experience in leading, mentoring, and coaching multi-site, matrixed teams to foster continuous growth and development.
• Outstanding communication skills, with the ability to distill complex data into clear, executive-level recommendations and decision papers.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills; able to quickly build networks, drive alignment toward a common vision, and constructively challenge ideas while remaining committed to final decisions.
• A background working within technology, business transformation, or analysis fields, specifically within fast-paced, complex, or rapidly expanding businesses (including M&A/acquisitions).
• A structured and disciplined approach to workload prioritisation, time management, and delivery under pressure, with a customer-first tenacity.

Even better if you have:

• Experience or deep understanding of the Energy sector.
• Formal BA training or certification (e.g., BCS or equivalent).
• Formal training in lean process design (e.g., Lean Six Sigma).
• Certification or training in Agile delivery (e.g., Scrum Master or Product Owner).

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you: We’ll pay you between £42,500 and £53,000, depending on your specific skills and experience. We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission. You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal. We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay. We'll give you 9% Flex Pay on top of your salary – 4% of this is auto enrolled into your pension, and the remaining 5% is yours to do what you like with. You can use this to buy from our extensive range of flexible benefits, including our green benefits which we've put at the heart of our offering, add to your pension or even take it as cash.

Here’s a taster of what’s on offer:

• 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).
• Health: With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more.
• Wellbeing: With gym membership, travel insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, dental insurance, and more.
• Lifestyle: With extra holiday buying, discount dining, home & tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations.
• Home: Get up to £400 towards any OVO Energy plan, plus great discounts on solar, smart thermostats and EV chargers.
• Commute: Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans.

For your Belonging: To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing... We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes, yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you! If you have any additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible.