Strategic Planning Analytics Officer

IT Services - Business Technology Services

This full time, fixed term post is available immediately until 31/07/2025 and offers the opportunity for flexible hybrid working – some time working on campus and some time working from home.

We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 200 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 and QS World University Ranking 2024).  We combine world-class teaching with world-class research, achieving a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework Award 2023, underpinned by Gold ratings for Student Experience and Student Outcomes.

The university is developing a new ten-year strategy where digital ways of working will be central to delivering our vision and goals. The digital transformation will impact profoundly on our workplace design, the skills we develop, the way our students learn, and the way we work and collaborate, and we want to ensure that this transformation has our staff and students at its heart. We are investing in digital technology and skills development to strengthen our education, research, and partnerships, and to meet the needs of our community.

IT Services & Digital is central to all of this, and we are looking for people to join us who want to be part of this major transformation and part of changing the way we work and the way our students learn.

What you’ll be doing… 

As a Strategic Planning Analytics Officer you will be responsible for maintaining, developing and supporting the University’s strategic planning tool, Anaplan. You will be enhancing system processes and planning mechanisms to ensure effective operations. Utilising products and models to provide compelling visions and leveraging the functionality to deliver benefits and help the business achieve its goals for the Planning and Finance Systems Team.

You will prioritise requirements with the technical strategy and delivery capacity. You take the lead in ensuring the development and configuration of the tools used are prioritised on the roadmap and you will excel at providing evidence-based value to customers and end users.

You will work collaboratively to inform, guide thinking, and develop clear plans using Agile project methodologies to ensure requirements for improvement are translated into appropriate plans with time and costs and prioritise development activities.

We’re ideally looking for…  

• A confident lead of scoping, design and development of the Anaplan SaaS product.
• Proven experience of maintaining and enhancing business planning systems, such as Anaplan.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen understanding of customer needs.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively across teams.
• Agile mindset, with the ability to adapt to a fast-paced environment.  

Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role by clicking on the attachment. 

Apply with your CV and short a cover note telling us how great you are and how your skills line up to what we’re looking for! 

We will be reviewing applications as they come in, so please don’t hesitate in applying, as we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications.

Further information

Please contact Becky Wilde, r.j.w.wilde@exeter.ac.uk

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