Manager, Asset Operations- Sub team Planner

Job Title Manager, Strategy & Operations – ED (Early Development) Sub Team Planner

Division / Function Strategy & Operations, Early Development, Research & External Innovation

Location Paris (FR) or London (UK)

Overview

The Early Development department aims to build a sustainable, high‑value portfolio. As part of the Strategy & Operations team, the Manager, Strategy & Operations – ED Sub Team Planner supports the coordination of Early Development activities, optimises processes, and steers the early‑stage portfolio. The role ensures that activities are translated into structured, integrated plans that enable disciplined execution, cross‑functional coordination and end‑to‑end delivery. Embedded in the Asset‑Centric Model, the EDSTP acts as a strategic planning partner and operational integrator, supporting the ED SubTeam Lead and driving execution of integrated project plans while maintaining alignment with overall asset strategy.

ED Sub Team Operational Leadership

• Partner with the ED Sub Team Lead and functional representatives to structure and maintain the Sub Team operational roadmap aligned with asset strategy and ED priorities.
• Support translation of scientific objectives into integrated, actionable project plans.
• Facilitate cross‑functional alignment on priorities, deliverables, timelines, and decision points, through evaluation of alternative options (scenarios) to deliver sub team objectives.
• Promote a disciplined planning and execution mindset across the Sub Team.

Planning & Execution Ownership

• Develop, maintain, and continuously refine the Integrated ED Sub Team Plan as a living document reflecting progress, risks, and changes in scope.
• Translate ED activities into structured plans within OnePlan, ensuring consistency and alignment across functions.
• Drive planning discipline, ensuring deliverables, timelines, and responsibilities are clearly defined and tracked.
• Identify the critical path and support decision‑point planning to enable timely delivery of objectives.

Execution Monitoring & Delivery Support

• Monitor execution of the SubTeam plan and track progress against milestones and deliverables.
• Identify, communicate, and support resolution of risks, deviations, and operational challenges.
• Track and highlight:
  • Deliverables on time / at risk
  • Key milestones and decision points
  • Resource constraints and dependencies
• Ensure decisions, actions, and next steps are captured, assigned, and tracked to completion.
• Act as the central operational point of contact for Sub Team members and the ED Sub Team Lead and Heads of Function.
• Ensure connection and alignment between sub team plan and global integrated asset plan through close collaboration with the Sub Team Lead and the Asset Operations Lead (AOL).
• Develop a mindset around benchmarking versus competitors and use this approach to challenge plans and decisions with the sub team and to pressure‑test scenarios.

OnePlan & Data Integration

• Lead the use of OnePlan (PPM tool) within ED Sub Teams, ensuring accurate and structured planning data.
• Ensure high standards of data quality, consistency, and completeness across all planning inputs.
• Translate activities into clear milestones, dependencies, and deliverables within the tool.
• Identify opportunities to improve data structure, usability, and planning standards.

Resource & Risk Management

• Support resource planning and workload visibility in collaboration with Sub Team Leads and functions, ensuring that needs are anticipated, aligned with priorities, and reflected in planning assumptions.
• Identify and elevate resource constraints and capacity risks impacting delivery.
• Apply structured risk management to identify, track, and mitigate risks and opportunities, and communicate effectively with the Sub Team Lead, the Asset Operations Lead (AOL), and Heads of Functions.
• Support scenario planning and development of contingency and corrective actions.

Cross‑functional Communication and Reporting

• Act as a key interface between ED teams, Strategy & Operations, and Asset Operations, ensuring alignment and transparency.
• Effectively communicate asset roadmap expectations to sub team members; Escalate issues to sub team lead, sub team members, AOL, ED HoFs and stakeholders in a timely fashion.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of planning processes, tools, and ways of working.
• Define and report metrics to measure sub team performance (in collaboration with sub team lead) while executing the sub team plan.

SubTeam Planner Competency Matrix

Stakeholder Manage