Business Planning and Analysis Director

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November 5

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Retail • Design • eCommerce

ALU is a company specializing in developing and providing innovative product display solutions for various industries, including apparel, sportswear, cosmetics, and department stores. Their offerings include products like the Autopole, Insula, Plot, Tondoquadro, and others designed for efficient and aesthetically pleasing presentation and organization. ALU also engages in creating temporary showrooms and pop-ups, such as their collaboration with Nike Jordan in Paris, and virtual showrooms. Based in Italy, they emphasize modern design and functionality, aiming to enhance the customer experience in retail environments.

51 - 200 employees

🛒 Retail

🛍️ eCommerce

📋 Description

• Lead the annual and multi-year business planning cycle, translating strategic priorities into measurable operational and financial targets. • Coordinate institutional planning inputs from departments and campuses, ensuring coherence and resource alignment. • Develop and maintain the organizational performance framework, aligned to organizational goals and KPIs, and planning calendar, that integrates finance, operations, and strategic milestones. • Partner with Finance and all departments to align forecasts, enrollment targets, and investment plans with institutional priorities. • Develop forward-looking models and business cases to guide decision-making and growth planning. • In collaboration with the Finance Performance team and the Data team, drive periodic performance reviews, building dashboard and analysis, and consolidating insights from across functions. • Develop performance dashboard and report, from Management committees to board updates. • Lead the process mapping and optimization agenda, ensuring that core business processes are efficient, standardized, and scalable. • Identify operational bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and duplication across the value chain (e.g., admissions, finance, academic delivery). • Design and implement systems and metrics to measure process adherence, efficiency, and effectiveness. • Oversee implementation of improvement initiatives in collaboration with function heads and the transformation office to drive standardization, automation and continuous improvement. • Partner with function heads to ensure processes are embedded, followed, and continuously improved. • Partner with the Systems and Data teams to ensure automation, process integration, and digital enablement. • Serve as custodian of the institutional risk register, ensuring systematic identification, assessment, and mitigation of risks. • Lead quarterly risk reviews with ExCo and ensure linkages between risk management, performance, and planning. • Partner with Legal, Finance, and People & Culture to strengthen enterprise governance and business continuity strategies that enhance organizational resilience, agility, and sustained performance. • Embed risk awareness into planning and project management processes. • Coordinate with department heads to ensure that controls are effectively integrated into day-to-day operations. • Provide training and support to staff on control processes and compliance requirements. • Partner with Data teams to ensure consistency and reliability of institutional data sources.

🎯 Requirements

• 8–12 years’ experience in business performance management, strategic planning, operational excellence management, financial planning analysis or related roles. • Proven experience leading planning or performance cycles in complex, multi-unit organizations. • Strong analytical and modeling skills; proficiency in dashboards and performance reporting tools (Excel, Power BI, Google Suite, or equivalent). • Demonstrated success in process improvement, risk management, and data-driven decision support. • Exposure to risk management frameworks and organizational governance preferred. • Experience in education, mission-driven, or growth-stage organizations is an advantage. • Project management experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote / relocation support offered to our operations