Enterprise Planning Manager

The Enterprise Planning Manager is a senior leadership role responsible for owning the integrated forward view of the Bureau’s IT strategy, plans, asset lifecycle priorities, disaster recovery readiness and technology capacity needs. The role provides enterprise-level leadership to ensure compute, storage, network, cloud and platform demand is forecast, prioritised and aligned with business direction, financial planning and technology strategy. Working across delivery, operations, architecture, cyber security and business stakeholders, the role drives an integrated and risk-informed planning approach that addresses technical debt, lifecycle risks, resilience requirements and future service demand. The position also provides authoritative advice to portfolio, investment, financial and risk governance forums to support informed decisions on technology planning and asset management. 

Broadly this role has the following remit:  

1. Leading IT planning and asset management: Own the integrated forward view of the IT Strategy and Plans, IT asset planning, lifecycle risks, disaster recovery readiness and IT capacity needs. 
2. Capacity planning: Ensure future demand for compute, storage, network, cloud and platform services is forecast, planned, funded and aligned with business and IT asset plans.
3. IT asset management planning: Coordinate the ICT asset planning process by ensuring the priorities of all asset management plans are complete, aligned to defined asset lifecycles, and address technical debt, disaster recovery gaps and platform constraints. 
4. Disaster recovery and resilience: Ensure the organisation has a planned, tested and funded approach to recovering critical IT services following disruption. 
5. Planning advice: Provide key advice into planning, portfolio, financial and risk governance forums related to decisions on IT planning and asset management. 

The responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to: 

1. Lead integrated IT planning: Own and maintain the forward view of IT strategy, plans, asset priorities, lifecycle risks, disaster recovery readiness and capacity requirements, ensuring these are coordinated across business and technology domains. 
2. Drive enterprise capacity planning: Establish and oversee planning for compute, storage, network, cloud and platform demand, ensuring future needs are forecast, costed, prioritised and aligned to business demand, service roadmaps and investment decisions. 
3. Coordinate ICT asset management planning: Lead the ICT asset planning process across asset domains, ensuring plans are complete, prioritised and aligned to lifecycle stage, technical risk, resilience requirements, platform constraints and remediation of technical debt. 
4. Strengthen disaster recovery and resilience: Ensure critical IT services have documented, tested and funded recovery approaches, and that disaster recovery priorities are integrated into asset, platform and investment planning. 
5. Provide strategic advice to governance forums: Deliver high-quality advice and recommendations to planning, portfolio, financial, architectural and risk governance forums on priorities, trade-offs, investment needs and planning risks related to IT assets and services. 
6. Lead stakeholder engagement and collaboration: Build strong relationships with business leaders, service owners, architects, delivery teams, finance and operational stakeholders to ensure plans are informed, realistic and integrated. 
7. Manage planning risks and dependencies: Identify emerging lifecycle, capacity, resilience and delivery risks, and drive mitigation strategies that balance business continuity, operational performance, cost and long-term sustainability. 
8. Lead and develop capability: Provide leadership to planning and asset management staff, fostering a high-performing team culture, continuous improvement and strong planning discipline across the Bureau.