Business Planning Manager

Base Location: Flexible Scotland however there will be a requirement for you to travel to Glasgow/Perth a couple days a week to be with the team and stakeholders., We have an exciting opportunity to join SSE Renewables as the Business Planning Manager within our[INS: :INS] Onshore Development & Construction Team, supporting the successful delivery of our significant portfolio of Onshore Renewables projects across GB, Ireland and Southern Europe. You will have the opportunity to work across multiple technologies such as Wind, Hydro, Solar and Battery.

Some of your main accountabilities will include;

- Leading and managing the Business Planning/PMO team across our different technologies including setting direction and priorities to ensure the Onshore Portfolio is fully serviced.

- Assisting the Head of Project Services in managing the Onshore Portfolio workforce planning model, maintaining resource supply and demand for project delivery, headcount, budgeting, and recruitment.

- Preparing, developing, and managing the annual budget process across the portfolio for Headcount and Overhead requirements, ensuring staff and costs are allocated to the correct cost centres.

- Assisting with the preparation of monthly executive reports, providing accurate data for the purposes of internal and external reporting.

- Supporting the Head of Project Services in creating a skilled Document Control function ensuring best practice tools and processes are adopted.

Experience in a Business Planning, PMO or Project Controls role, providing leadership on Large Capital Projects across multi-disciplinary teams.

- The ability to negotiate and influence at senior stakeholder level, bringing people on board by managing change and leading by example.

- Excellent analytical skills with the ability to analyse complex data and information and relay this back to stakeholders in an easy to understand format allowing key decisions to be made.

- A passion for innovation[INS: , :INS] efficiency and continuous improvement.

SSE has big ambitions to be a leading energy company in a low carbon world. Following our commitment to invest £20.5 billion in low carbon projects to 2027, we have significant growth plans and are well on our way to achieving our ambition to build a world that's more sustainable and inclusive for you, your family, the community you live in and for generations to come. We are proud to be playing a critical role in the net zero transition, as we aim to more than treble the net capacity in operation to 13GW and grow renewable energy output five-fold to over 50TWh over the next 10 years.

Salary: £55,200 - £80,000 + Performance-Related Bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time| Flexible First options available, We offer an excellent package with 34 days annual leave entitlement. Enhanced maternity/paternity leave, discounted healthcare, salary sacrifice car leasing and much more, view our full benefits package on our careers site.