Sr. Strategy & Planning Manager

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The Senior Strategy & Planning Manager owns the development and execution of IT’s long-range strategic and operating plans, ensuring they are financially grounded, executable, and aligned to enterprise priorities. This role is accountable for translating IT strategy into actionable roadmaps, labor plans, and partner strategies that leadership relies on to make funding, staffing, and investment decisions. The role leads strategic initiatives to improve labor efficiency across IT by optimizing internal capacity, strategic partners, and delivery models.

Success is measured by clear executive decision-making, improved labor efficiency, effective partner governance, and delivery of a credible multi-year IT roadmap that enables business outcomes.

IT’s ability to deliver on enterprise priorities increasingly depends on how effectively labor, partners, and delivery models are planned, governed, and optimized. This role brings clarity, rigor, and accountability to how IT translates strategy into executable labor and partner plans, enabling leaders to make confident, timely investment and staffing decisions in a complex, fast-changing environment.

The Senior Strategy & Planning Manager plays a critical role in shaping and operationalizing the IT organization’s strategic direction. This role sits at the intersection of IT strategy, labor planning, and execution, ensuring long-range priorities can be delivered within complex, Agile-based technology environments.

The role partners closely with IT leaders, Finance, Procurement, HR, and Enterprise teams to improve labor efficiency, strengthen delivery models, and govern strategic IT partners. The ideal candidate has deep experience operating across fragmented IT environments, understands SDLC and Agile development models, and is comfortable owning high-consequence executive deliverables.

Within the first year, this role establishes a trusted, executive-level operating rhythm for IT labor and partner planning. Leadership has clear visibility into capacity, cost, and delivery tradeoffs, vendor performance is actively governed, and labor decisions are grounded in data rather than assumptions. Strategic plans are not only created, but consistently used to drive funding, staffing, and prioritization decisions.

This role is best suited for leaders who are comfortable operating in ambiguity, owning high-consequence deliverables, and driving outcomes in complex, federated IT environments.

• Own executive-ready strategic plans, multi-year roadmaps, and decision materials that directly inform IT funding, labor, and investment decisions.
• Clearly articulate labor tradeoffs, partner performance, and delivery risks to senior leaders, enabling faster and more confident decision-making.
• Serve as a trusted thought partner to IT executives on long-range planning and organizational effectiveness.

• Own the development and maintenance of IT’s multi-year strategic roadmap and operating plan.
• Lead IT labor planning across internal teams and strategic partners, translating demand, capacity, and cost inputs into actionable workforce and sourcing plans.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives focused on labor cost reduction, delivery model optimization, and improved utilization across internal and external resources.

• Partner across IT, Finance, HR, Procurement, and Enterprise teams to align strategy, labor, and execution.
• Operate effectively within SDLC and Agile development environments to ensure plans align to delivery…