Job Description:
Planning Co-ordinator
Brighton, Manchester or Staines
Permanent
Hybrid, up to 3 days WFH
£26.6k - £33.2k DOE and location + fantastic benefits
37.5 hours per week
Working in our UK support functions you’ll play a key part in helping our customer facing colleagues deliver exceptional standards of customer service and patient care. No matter your role, you’ll have an opportunity to do work that matters. Making a difference to the lives of our customers each and every day.
The role
The Planning team is an integral part of the Learning and Talent Acquisition team supporting the Bupa Global, UKI and Functions portfolio to maintain high quality learning and recruitment. As Planning Co-ordinator you will monitor current performance, carry out analysis of historic data, calculate effects of strategic or procedural changes, forecast work volumes, recommend staffing needs, identify opportunities to maximize utilisation of resource and supply performance data.
You’ll help us make health happen by
1. Identify process recommendations to improve adherence and that they are working collaboratively with the Team Managers
2. Manage the detailed resource planning and scheduling process
3. Ensure timely and accurate analysis of previous performance data relating to work volumes, productivity levels, staffing availability and seasonal variances to facilitate informed future forecasting
4. Provide support and guidance to the facilitators during workshops, including delegate management and feedback collection on specific planning issues
5. Accountable for the production of accurate daily, weekly and monthly forecasting and resourcing reporting
6. Ensure timely and accurate analysis is conducted on historic performance data relating to both internal workloads and the impacts of learning supplied
Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role
7. Background in planning in the global market, or relevant transferable skills and knowledge
8. Ability to disseminate large amounts of information and provide clear and commercially sound recommendations
9. Exposure to project work including demonstrating successful process improvement initiatives.
10. Ability to use analytic programs to a proficient level i.e. Excel, PowerPoint etc
11. Exceptional stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at all levels
12. Problem solver who takes ownership for tasks and overcomes barriers and finds solutions
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
• Various other benefits and online discounts
Why Bupa?
We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.