Director, Planning and Operational Excellence

Job Purpose

Responsible for driving strategic alignment and optimizing performance outcomes across SOPC’s high-performance programs. This role partners closely with Senior Directors and other HP staff to support goal setting, strategic planning, tracking and monitoring. Overseeing the HP Planning and Sports Research & Development functions, the Director ensures that research-backed, innovative approaches and comprehensive plans are implemented to meet both current and future athlete development needs.

Through proactive stakeholder engagement and continuous improvement, this role fosters a collaborative environment that advances SOPC’s high-performance objectives and strengthens its competitive edge.

Responsible for driving strategic alignment and optimizing performance outcomes across SOPC’s high-performance programs. This role partners closely with Senior Directors and other HP staff to support goal setting, strategic planning, tracking and monitoring. Overseeing the HP Planning and Sports Research & Development functions, the Director ensures that research-backed, innovative approaches and comprehensive plans are implemented to meet both current and future athlete development needs.

Through proactive stakeholder engagement and continuous improvement, this role fosters a collaborative environment that advances SOPC’s high-performance objectives and strengthens its competitive edge.

Responsible for driving strategic alignment and optimizing performance outcomes across SOPC’s high-performance programs. This role partners closely with Senior Directors and other HP staff to support goal setting, strategic planning, tracking and monitoring. Overseeing the HP Planning and Sports Research & Development functions, the Director ensures that research-backed, innovative approaches and comprehensive plans are implemented to meet both current and future athlete development needs.

Through proactive stakeholder engagement and continuous improvement, this role fosters a collaborative environment that advances SOPC’s high-performance objectives and strengthens its competitive edge.

• Lead the development and integration of annual and multi-year High-Performance operational plans, translating strategic priorities and athlete requirements into coordinated programs, service requirements, resources, timelines, readiness milestones, and delivery priorities.
• Coordinate integrated planning and operational readiness across High-Performance programs and enabling functions, ensuring athlete requirements, competitions, training camps, Games, services, and critical dependencies are identified, aligned, and planned sufficiently in advance.
• Establish planning cycles, prioritization approaches, and readiness standards, and monitor critical dependencies across logistics, equipment, medical and performance services, procurement, technology, and other enabling functions to ensure material constraints and risks are resolved or escalated in a timely manner to protect athlete preparation and program delivery.
• Lead the Sports R&D and innovation agenda, directing research priorities and fostering collaboration with High-Performance functions and federations to translate evidence and emerging technologies into practical applications that enhance athlete performance, injury prevention, recovery, training effectiveness, and competitive advantage.

• Lead the SOTC operational excellence agenda by identifying and addressing process inefficiencies, service gaps, bottlenecks, and opportunities to improve High-Performance delivery.
• Establish and apply continuous improvement…