The Role
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Resource & Planning Manager is a critical role in enabling effective delivery across the business by ensuring the right resources are available at the right time. Operating within the Change Team, this role serves as a central coordination point across change, tech, data, and business teams, overseeing the triage, prioritisation, and allocation of work. By maintaining visibility of capacity, resolving resource conflicts, and implementing planning tools and governance practices, the role ensures a joined-up and data-driven approach to delivery that maximises impact and efficiency.
Responsibilities Will Include
- Act as the operational lead for small change management, overseeing the packaging, triage, prioritisation, and working with Delivery lead in IT on resourcing of small change requests, ensuring alignment with business strategy and domain knowledge.
- Serve as the critical interface between change, tech, and data teams, ensuring cohesive delivery, joined-up planning, and transparent communication across stakeholders.
- Continuously monitor the capacity, progress, and blockers to resolve resource conflicts early and proactively remove delivery bottlenecks.
- Lead the implementation of a centralised resource planning model that offers real-time visibility across all demand impacting the teams, driving transparency and control.
- Use data-driven methods to assess and forecast resource demand vs. capacity, identifying constraints, informing hiring or outsourcing needs, and maximising the use of available talent.
- Provide regular reporting and risk escalation into governance forums, promote accountability through accurate tracking.
Skills
- Resource and capacity planning
- Project management (tools, methods, governance)
- Data analysis and visualization
- Influencing
- Experience with various Project and Microsoft tools(e.g.. Planner, AzureDevOps, PowerAutomate, PowerPoint, Excel r)
- Communication and stakeholder engagement
- PowerBI experience highly desirable, including creation of reports
Our Benefits
ABOUT US
We offer all employees a comprehensive benefits package that focuses on their whole wellbeing. This includes hybrid working, a competitive base salary, non-contributory pension, discretionary bonus, insurances including health (family) and dental cover, and many other benefits to enhance financial, physical, social and psychological health.
About Canopius
Canopius is a global specialty lines (re)insurer. We are one of the leading insurers in the Lloyd’s of London insurance market with offices in the UK, US, Singapore, Australia and Bermuda.
At Canopius we foster a distinctive, positive culture which enables us to bring our whole selves to work to flourish as people, and build a business which delivers profitable, sustainable results.
Based in incredible new offices in the heart of the City of London, Canopius operates a flexible, hybrid working model and is committed to providing an environment that challenges employees to be their best and where everyone's unique contributions are recognised, valued and respected.
We are fully committed to equal employment opportunities for all applicants and providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are made regardless of age, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, religion or beliefs, marital or caring status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We encourage and welcome applicants from all diverse backgrounds.
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