Senior Resource Planning Manager

## Senior Resource Planning Manager Apply locations:
Scotland:
Stirling time type:
Full time posted on:
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End Date:
July 27, 2026 (12 days left to apply) job requisition :
R19898

Our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions.

Our two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions.

Through telling it like it is, owning it now, and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.

We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer work place accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.
** Senior Resource Planning Manager
** M&G Life in its current form was created in October 2024 with the merger of what was formerly the closed book operation and the M&G Wealth Business (open book). M&G Life now covers over 5 million customers with more than £300 Bn invested across all of its products and wrappers and has an ambitious growth plan for 2026 and beyond.

M&G Life operations work with a number of partners including Equiniti, Diligenta, Waystone, Paragon, Willis Towers Watson, as well as M&G Global Services supporting our in-house operation. M&G Life also has international presence with teams in Ireland and Poland, using a mix of in sourcing and outsourcing service operations to sell to domestic and international markets.

We are seeking a highly experienced senior resource planning leader to provide enterprise‐wide leadership across our critical Planning function. This role will lead the organisation’s long‐range resource planning strategy while retaining accountability for operational resource planning effectiveness, ensuring long‐term plans are fully aligned to business strategy, customer outcomes, and financial objectives.

The role holder will be accountable for defining and delivering an integrated strategic and operational resource planning framework that ensures the organisation has the right capacity, capability, and deployment model across all services. Acting as a senior subject matter expert and trusted advisor, the role will influence executive decision‐making, inform investment priorities, and shape how the organisation designs, resources, and delivers customer services  will lead the development of robust resource and capacity models that translate strategic intent into executable operational plans, enabling sustainable service delivery, cost efficiency, and operational resilience.

With a deep understanding of customer journeys, demand drivers, and operational processes, you will shape planning assumptions, challenge established ways of working, and drive improvements in how resources are deployed across the enterprise.
** Key Accountabilities
*** Lead the organisation’s long‐term resource and capacity planning strategy, ensuring alignment to corporate objectives, growth plans, and customer experience ambitions.
* Support the Senior Manager, Capacity Planning & Forecasting in executing the full end to end planning cycle including supply management and real-time optimisation
* Develop and maintain strategic resource plans covering all customer service areas, delivery models, and service channels.
* Provide clear strategic insight on future resourcing needs, identifying risks, trade‐offs, and mitigation strategies to inform investment, recruitment, and transformation decisions.
* Act as the senior authority on resource and capacity planning methodology, ensuring planning approaches remain robust, scalable, and fit for future demand.
* Ensure strategic plans are translated into effective operational resource plans, enabling consistent delivery against service level commitments and customer outcomes.
* Maintain oversight of third-party outsource rs, using resource planning subject matter expertise to identify emerging risks,…