Business Planning Senior Manager/Manager

Richemont, one of the world leaders in the luxury sector, has various Houses specializing in jewelry, watches and high-end accessories. Each Maison proudly embodies a tradition of style, quality and craftsmanship and Richemont strives to preserve the heritage and identity specific to each of them. At the same time, we are committed to innovating and designing new products in line with the values of our Houses, through a process of permanent creativity.

MAIN PURPOSE

This position translates approved business and technology direction into executable priorities, integrated plans, resource allocation, delivery governance and performance visibility. It maintains a portfolio-wide view across projects, products and operational commitments, and drives execution from demand intake through delivery, adoption and value review.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Drive Integrated Planning and Portfolio Execution

• Translate annual and multi-year direction into objectives, initiatives, milestones, dependencies, resource requirements and outcome measures.
• Maintain an integrated view of plans, capacity, dependencies and progress across projects, products, operational work, improvement activity and change initiatives.
• Manage intake of new demand and assess value, urgency, risk, dependencies, readiness and available capacity.
• Align cross-team execution plans and critical dependencies, resolving or escalating issues that threaten progress.

Support Priority and Resource Decisions

• Develop options and recommendations to start, pause, sequence or stop work based on strategic fit, value, urgency, risk, dependencies and capacity.
• Make demand and internal or external delivery capacity visible, including resource allocation, capability gaps, over-commitment and delivery consequences.
• Partner with Finance and stakeholders to prepare investment information, planning assumptions, resource scenarios and portfolio budget views.
• Decide execution sequencing and resource allocation within delegated authority, and escalate significant priority, funding or cross-functional resource conflicts.

Establish Performance and Executive Visibility

• Maintain outcome, delivery and adoption measures aligned with business objectives.
• Connect initiatives to expected outcomes and benefit measures, track results after launch and recommend improvement where needed.
• Provide concise reporting on progress, portfolio health, capacity, risk, financial implications and decisions required.
• Use performance data to improve planning assumptions, governance, resource allocation and management cadence.

Lead Critical Programmes and Build Planning Capability

• Lead execution directly for selected high-priority, complex or cross-functional programmes where needed.
• Manage milestones, critical path, stakeholder alignment, dependencies, risks and implementation readiness for those programmes.
• Support portfolio and project leads to strengthen outcome ownership, decision-making, stakeholder management and autonomous execution.
• Establish planning definitions, templates, decision cadences, standards and knowledge assets that improve consistency without unnecessary bureaucracy.

COMPETENCIES AND EXPERIENCES

• Relevant experience in business planning, portfolio management, programme management, strategy execution, transformation or a comparable field. A Senior Manager appointment will typically require 6+ years of relevant experience; equivalent experience appropriate to the scope may be accepted for a Manager appointment.
• Experience establishing or improving planning or portfolio-management practices in an evolving organisation.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional programmes and coordinating business, technology, Finance, regional or global teams and external partners.
• Experience linking initiatives to budgets, capacity, business outcomes, benefits and performance measures.
• Ability to structure ambiguity and present concise options, trade-offs, recommendations and decisions required to senior leaders.
• Ability to advance cross-team execution through facilitation, constructive challenge, negotiation and coaching.
• Practical experience with Jira, Confluence, demand-management tools or portfolio-planning tools is preferred.
• Experience in an organisation involving global, regional and local stakeholders is preferred.
• Business-level English and native-level Japanese.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education or practical experience.

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