Supply and Demand Planning Manager

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Published on: 04 April 2025

Supply and Demand Planning Manager

Location: Manchester

About the job
Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From hybrid working to flexible hours, we have plenty of options that help our people to thrive.

This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Job Description
Join us as a Supply & Demand Planning Manager:

• Joining us in Performance & Business Management, we’ll look to you to define and lead resourcing and capability activities for business areas.
• You’ll be providing specialist knowledge to ensure that the right resourcing levels are in place and capability requirements are met to deliver business objectives.
• This is an opportunity to raise your career profile with the work you do, building collaborative relationships with a range of key stakeholders.
• For this hybrid role, you\’ll mainly work from home with a minimum of one day a week in the office.

What you\’ll do
As a Supply & Demand Planning Manager, you’ll be building and maintaining strong, trusted partnerships to understand and support the resourcing and capability needs of the business. You’ll engage with the business to determine a strategic workforce plan, as well as working with the business area to define and deliver capability plans in line with future operating models.

You’ll also be:

• Gathering and using robust capability MI, providing options and recommendations to support the business strategy.
• Embedding the outputs of the people plan locally and supporting people leaders by providing advice and guidance.
• Identifying skills and knowledge gaps based on the business strategy and providing solutions.
• Supporting the implementation of a technical learning framework across the business area.
• Designing, delivering and leading the business unit’s communications and engagement plan, owning key communications channels.

The skills you\’ll need
We’re looking for someone with excellent experience of working in a leadership support or business management role within a call centre environment. You’ll need broad knowledge of the customer business, key services, and how it interacts with the rest of the organisation.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• A proven background in a resource planning role with the ability to calculate future resource requirements using Supply vs Demand plans.
• Ability to support change processes by completing impact assessments to size the resource requirement.
• Experience of working with multiple business initiatives.
• Proficiency in Excel, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and the ability to use information to develop creative value-add solutions.
• Experience of leading and delivering results through a team.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, preferably gained within a resource planning environment.

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