United Kingdom · Internal Consulting · Principal/Manager (12-16 years)

Manager, Corporate Planning

Here is the whole job, in plain words. What it is, a real day, what you decide, how you're judged, how people get here and where they go next. Then the part no course gives you: twelve AI tutors who learn your work.

Experience bandPrincipal/Manager (12-16 years)
Direct reports3-5 reports
Reports toDirector, Corporate Strategy
UK framework levelUsually a manager, or the deepest specialist in a team

Also advertised as Head of Strategic Planning · Senior Planning Lead · Corporate Strategy Manager · Strategic Finance Manager

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1What this role really is

As our Manager, Corporate Planning, you'll be the person who brings structure and foresight to our biggest business questions. You're not just crunching numbers; you're building the framework that helps our senior leaders see around corners and make smart, long-term decisions. Think of yourself as the architect of our future, translating strategic ambitions into actionable plans and measurable outcomes. You'll be leading a small, sharp team, guiding them through complex projects, and making sure our planning efforts actually stick.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

Microsoft ExcelStrategic

Auditing and pressure-testing complex financial models built by your team. You'll focus on the strategic assumptions, model logic, and outputs, not necessarily building every formula yourself, but you'll know how to spot an error or an inefficient calculation. You'll also use it for high-level scenario planning and quick ad-hoc analyses.

Tableau / Power BIArchitect

Governing enterprise analytics, defining key performance indicators (KPIs) and data sources for dashboards. You'll consume these dashboards for strategic oversight, making sure they tell the right story and provide actionable insights for leadership. You'll guide your team on dashboard design best practices.

Anaplan / PigmentStrategic

Owning the enterprise planning platform. You'll lead the design of the company-wide planning architecture, ensuring it supports our strategic objectives. You'll use it for high-stakes scenario analysis and board-level presentations, relying on the platform for robust, integrated planning.

SQL (PostgreSQL/T-SQL)Architectural

Understanding data warehousing concepts to direct your analysts on what data is needed and how it should be structured. You'll be able to vet the logic of complex queries your team writes, ensuring data integrity for strategic analyses. You won't be writing daily queries, but you'll know enough to challenge and guide.

Confluence / NotionStrategic

Using the platform to communicate strategic plans, cascading goals, and key decisions across the organisation. You'll ensure your team's documentation is clear, accessible, and supports effective knowledge sharing, setting the standards for how strategic information is organised.

Miro / FigJamStrategic

Using these tools to visually articulate and align the executive team around complex strategic frameworks and roadmaps. You'll lead virtual strategy workshops, process mapping sessions, and brainstorming efforts, making sure everyone is literally 'on the same page'.

SAP S/4HANA / Oracle ERPStrategic

Understanding the ERP's capabilities and limitations and how they impact strategic planning and data-driven decision-making at an enterprise level. You'll know which modules hold critical data for your analyses and how to guide your team to extract it effectively, even if you're not a daily user.

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choice	Coming in	Where you are now	The step above
Project Prioritisation	Follows supervisor's prioritisation.	Prioritises own tasks within project scope; escalates conflicts to manager.	Prioritises workstreams within a project; consults Director on major shifts.
Methodology & Tool Selection	Uses approved tools and methodologies.	Suggests minor improvements to existing methodologies.	Selects appropriate methodologies for complex problems; recommends new tools (under £5K).
Budget Allocation	No budget authority.	Tracks project expenses.	Recommends budget for specific project components (up to £5K).
Hiring & Performance	No authority.	Provides peer feedback.	Mentors junior colleagues; provides input on performance reviews.

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

Long-Range Plan (LRP) Accuracy

How close our 3-5 year financial forecasts are to actual performance.

Target · Within ±5% variance year-over-year for key P&L lines (revenue, EBITDA).

If the LRP predicted £100M revenue for 2024, actual revenue of £97M would be a 3% variance, hitting target.

Strategic Initiative Adoption Rate

The percentage of major strategic recommendations from your team that are formally approved and actively implemented by business units.

Target · 75% of recommendations adopted within 6 months of presentation.

Your team proposes 4 new market entry strategies in Q1; 3 are greenlit and funded by Q3, hitting 75%.

Planning Cycle Efficiency

The time it takes to complete key planning cycles (e.g., annual budget, quarterly reforecasts) from kick-off to final sign-off.

Target · Reduce cycle time by 15% through process improvements and tool optimisation.

Annual budget cycle reduced from 10 weeks to 8.5 weeks through better data automation and stakeholder coordination.

Team Productivity & Quality

The overall output and quality of your team's analytical models, reports, and strategic documents.

Target · Maintain a 'High' quality rating (internal peer review) for 90% of team deliverables; 100% on-time delivery for critical reports.

Team consistently delivers accurate, well-structured financial models and strategic analyses, avoiding last-minute corrections from leadership.

Strategic Influence & Credibility

How much senior leadership trusts and relies on your team's insights for critical decisions, often seeking your input proactively.

You're regularly invited to C-suite strategy sessions
your team's recommendations are referenced in board discussions
business unit leaders actively seek your team's input before making major investment pitches.

Team Development & Mentorship

The growth and capability building within your direct reports, ensuring they're challenged and developing their skills.

Direct reports consistently meet or exceed performance expectations
at least one team member is promoted annually
positive feedback from team members on mentorship and career guidance
you're seen as a fair and effective leader.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

How effectively your team works with other departments, building strong relationships and getting everyone on board with planning initiatives.

Positive feedback from Finance, Product, and Sales leaders on your team's collaborative approach
planning processes run smoothly with minimal inter-departmental friction
your team is seen as a helpful partner, not just a 'gatekeeper'.

Process Optimisation & Innovation

Your ability to identify and implement improvements to our planning processes, tools, and methodologies.

You've introduced new analytical techniques (e.g., advanced scenario modelling)
you've streamlined data collection or reporting workflows
your team is experimenting with new AI tools to boost efficiency
you're always looking for a better way to do things.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy

Shaping the Future

You'll spend your days working on projects that directly influence where the company is headed in 3, 5, or even 10 years. This means designing new market entry strategies, optimising our product portfolio, or identifying new revenue streams.

Leading the analysis for a potential £50M acquisition, which, if successful, will open up an entirely new market for us.

Intellectual Challenge

You'll constantly be grappling with ambiguous, complex business problems that have no easy answers. This involves deep analytical thinking, creative problem-solving, and synthesising vast amounts of information into coherent strategies.

Designing a new scenario planning framework to account for unprecedented market volatility, requiring you to think beyond standard models.

Building & Developing a Team

A significant part of your role involves mentoring, coaching, and developing your direct reports. You'll take pride in seeing your team members grow, take on more responsibility, and deliver high-impact work.

Guiding a junior advisor through their first complex financial model, helping them present it to a VP, and celebrating their success.

What frustrates people

The 'Shelved Strategy': Spending months building a robust strategic plan, only for it to be ignored or deprioritised due to a sudden shift in executive focus.
Data Janitor Work: Realising that 60% of your project time is spent chasing, cleaning, and validating data from siloed, sometimes uncooperative, departments.
Implementation Blame Game: Your team's excellent recommendation is approved, but the business unit responsible for carrying it out executes it poorly. When it fails, the 'bad strategy' often gets the blame, not the poor execution.
The Politically 'Correct' Answer: Feeling immense pressure to adjust model assumptions or conclusions to support a predetermined outcome favoured by a powerful executive.
The 'HiPPO' Effect: Watching your carefully constructed, data-backed recommendation get overturned in a meeting by the 'Highest Paid Person's Opinion', despite all evidence.

What this role does not give you

Consistent, predictable day-to-day tasks – every project brings new challenges and often new data sources.
Direct operational control – you advise and influence, but you don't directly run business units.
Immediate gratification – strategic initiatives take time, sometimes years, to show their full impact.
A quiet, heads-down analytical role – you'll be in meetings, presenting, and managing people a lot.

6Who you work with

This role directly shapes our organisation's strategic direction and financial health. You'll influence major capital allocation decisions, drive the adoption of key performance frameworks like OKRs, and ensure our long-range plans are both ambitious and achievable. Your work underpins our ability to grow sustainably and respond effectively to competitive pressures. Frankly, you're building the roadmap for where we're going next, and your team's output is what the board reviews quarterly.

Inside the business

CFO and Finance Leadership
Business Unit VPs and Directors
Product & Technology Leadership
Sales & Marketing Directors
HR Leadership

Outside the business

External Consultants (occasionally)
Industry Analysts (for market insights)
Key Vendors (e.g., Anaplan, Tableau)

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

Proven experience leading complex strategic projects from inception to recommendation, ideally within an internal consulting function or top-tier external consultancy.
Demonstrable experience managing and developing a team of analysts or advisors, including hiring, performance management, and career coaching.
Expert-level proficiency in financial modelling, including three-statement integration, valuation techniques, and scenario analysis (not just using templates).
A track record of influencing senior leadership (VP-level and above) through data-driven insights and compelling presentations.
Strong understanding of enterprise planning platforms like Anaplan or Pigment, including experience with model building and governance.
The ability to translate ambiguous business problems into structured analytical approaches and actionable recommendations.

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Advanced Data Orchestration & Governance

As data sources multiply and AI tools become more sophisticated, ensuring data quality, lineage, and accessibility for strategic planning becomes paramount. You'll need to direct your team and collaborate with data engineering to build robust data foundations. This is critical within 6 months.

Data Mesh Architectures · Data Observability · Data Product Thinking · Automated Data Validation Pipelines

This week: Have a deep dive with our Head of Data Engineering to understand our current data architecture and pain points.
This month: Identify one critical data source for your team's models and map its full lineage, identifying potential quality risks.
Month 2: Propose an improvement to our data governance process that would directly benefit strategic planning.
Month 3-6: Lead an initiative to automate a manual data validation step for a key planning input.

Quick win: Ask your team to document the data lineage for their most critical model inputs. It's a simple step that uncovers hidden complexities.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up

Regularly attend industry conferences on strategic planning, corporate finance, or internal consulting to stay abreast of best practices and emerging trends.
Participate in leadership development programmes, focusing on coaching, change management, and executive influence.
Engage with peer networks or forums for corporate planning leaders to share insights and learn from others' experiences.
Pursue certifications in advanced analytics, AI strategy, or digital transformation to future-proof your skills and guide your team.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

The new skill this role is being asked for: AI-Driven Strategic Foresight

Competitors are already using advanced AI to spot market shifts, predict consumer behaviour, and identify emerging threats faster than traditional methods. If we don't, we'll be playing catch-up. This is critical within 12 months, not a 'nice-to-have' for the distant future.

We'll only ever tell you what we can actually back up. No hype, no scare tactics.

The rising capability

Zavmo analysis

What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

AI-Driven Strategic Foresight

Competitors are already using advanced AI to spot market shifts, predict consumer behaviour, and identify emerging threats faster than traditional methods. If we don't, we'll be playing catch-up. This is critical within 12 months, not a 'nice-to-have' for the distant future.

Predictive Analytics for Market Trends
Generative AI for Scenario Generation
AI for Risk Identification
Automated Strategic Option Analysis

Digital Transformation Leadership

Our company, like most, is constantly undergoing some form of digital transformation. As a planning leader, you'll need to understand not just the 'what' but the 'how' of successful digital change. This is important within 12-18 months, as our strategic initiatives increasingly rely on new tech.

Agile Strategy Implementation
Platform Thinking
Data Ethics & Governance
Cloud Economics

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

Financial Modeling & Valuation
Scenario Planning & Monte Carlo Simulation
Balanced Scorecard (BSC) / OKRs
Market Sizing & Competitive Analysis
Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)
Change Management (Kotter's 8-Step / ADKAR)

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

1
Senior Corporate Planning Advisor (Internal Promotion)
3-5 years as a Senior/Lead Advisor
Skills to master
- Leading complex workstreams, mentoring junior staff, managing stakeholder relationships (Director-level), and demonstrating ownership of strategic outcomes.
You're ready to move on when
- Consistently delivers high-quality, impactful strategic analyses and recommendations.
- Has successfully led multiple cross-functional projects with minimal supervision.
- Receives strong feedback on mentorship and ability to unstick junior colleagues.
- Proactively identifies and proposes solutions to complex business problems, not just executes tasks.
2
Management Consultant (External Hire)
8-12 years at a top-tier management consulting firm (e.g., 'Big 4', MBB)
Skills to master
- Client management, structured problem-solving, project leadership, and developing strategic recommendations for diverse industries. You'd typically be coming in as a Senior Manager or Principal.
You're ready to move on when
- Proven track record of leading consulting engagements and managing client relationships.
- Experience managing project teams and developing junior consultants.
- Strong analytical and presentation skills, with exposure to C-suite clients.
- A desire to move into an in-house strategic role with long-term impact.
3
Strategic Finance Lead (External Hire)
10-15 years in a strategic finance or FP&A leadership role in a large corporate.
Skills to master
- Deep financial modelling, budgeting, forecasting, and business partnering with operational teams. You'd bring a strong commercial and financial lens to our strategic planning.
You're ready to move on when
- Extensive experience with long-range financial planning and annual budgeting cycles.
- Demonstrated ability to translate financial data into strategic insights.
- Experience managing a finance team and influencing business unit leaders.
- A desire to broaden your scope beyond pure finance into overall corporate strategy.

11Where this role leads

The long view:Your journey here is about more than just a job; it's about building a career where you can genuinely shape the future of our business. We're looking for leaders who are not afraid to challenge the status quo, embrace complexity, and drive impactful change. If that sounds like you, we'd love to chat.

Pay & demand

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The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Manager, Corporate Planning is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

Zavmo is a hyper-personalised AI learning platform. Twelve virtual tutors, each with a different way of teaching, and one orchestration agent that picks the right one for the moment. So every single lesson is shaped around you, your role, and the way you learn. Not a course everyone sits through. A conversation built for you, and no one else.

…and nine more, matched to you after your first chat. Meet all twelve

Start free and meet yours

13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

Manage Travel Planning ProjectsLevel 5

Applied to your work in Manager, Corporate Planning

By completing this unit, learners will be able to carry out travel awareness, planning and behaviour management projects, and prepare marketing and travel information for travel planning programmes.

How the thinking builds

Remember
Understand
Apply
Analyse
Evaluate
Create

An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

DemonstrateIllustration

Evidenced on your work in Manager, Corporate Planning

You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

Long-Range Plan (LRP) AccuracyHow close our 3-5 year financial forecasts are to actual performance.If the LRP predicted £100M revenue for 2024, actual revenue of £97M would be a 3% variance, hitting target.Within ±5% variance year-over-year for key P&L lines (revenue, EBITDA).
Strategic Initiative Adoption RateThe percentage of major strategic recommendations from your team that are formally approved and actively implemented by business units.Your team proposes 4 new market entry strategies in Q1; 3 are greenlit and funded by Q3, hitting 75%.75% of recommendations adopted within 6 months of presentation.
Planning Cycle EfficiencyThe time it takes to complete key planning cycles (e.g., annual budget, quarterly reforecasts) from kick-off to final sign-off.Annual budget cycle reduced from 10 weeks to 8.5 weeks through better data automation and stakeholder coordination.Reduce cycle time by 15% through process improvements and tool optimisation.
Team Productivity & QualityThe overall output and quality of your team's analytical models, reports, and strategic documents.Team consistently delivers accurate, well-structured financial models and strategic analyses, avoiding last-minute corrections from leadership.Maintain a 'High' quality rating (internal peer review) for 90% of team deliverables; 100% on-time delivery for critical reports.

These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From Manager, Corporate Planning to Director, Corporate Strategy (L6), and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 5 · in progressAI Fluency→ Director, Corporate Strategy (L6)→ your design

Where this takes you

Your journey here is about more than just a job; it's about building a career where you can genuinely shape the future of our business. We're looking for leaders who are not afraid to challenge the status quo, embrace complexity, and drive impactful change. If that sounds like you, we'd love to chat.

See Your Progress GrowIllustration

Manager, Corporate Planning

Financial Modeling & Valuation
Scenario Planning & Monte Carlo Simulation
Balanced Scorecard (BSC) / OKRs
Market Sizing & Competitive Analysis
Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)
Change Management (Kotter's 8-Step / ADKAR)

This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Manager, Corporate Planning is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

Director, Corporate Strategy (L6)
3-5 years as Manager, Corporate Planning
You'll move from managing the planning function to shaping the strategic roadmap for a major business unit or the entire enterprise. Your focus shifts to long-range (3-5 year) planning, M&A strategy, and board-level presentations.
- Portfolio Management & Capital Allocation
- Advanced Growth Strategy (e.g., new market entry, disruptive innovation)
- Risk Management at an Enterprise Level
- Investor Relations Support

Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be real, corporate planning can be a grind. But what if you could cut through the noise, automate the tedious bits, and focus on the truly strategic work? Our AI Productivity Hub is designed to do just that, giving you and your team a serious edge.

As a Manager, Corporate Planning, you're not just doing the work; you're leading a team and shaping the future. AI isn't here to replace your strategic brain, but to free it up. Imagine your team spending less time on data wrangling and initial research, and more time on deep analysis, creative problem-solving, and influential storytelling. That's the promise of AI in this role.

Automated Data Wrangler

Use AI agents to automate the extraction, cleaning, and consolidation of monthly performance data from disparate sources like Salesforce, SAP, and Workday. This means your team spends less time on 'data janitor' work and more on actual analysis, freeing up significant hours for higher-value activities.

Insight Accelerator

Leverage AI-powered analytics tools to perform initial driver analysis on large datasets, automatically flagging statistically significant correlations and anomalies. This helps your team quickly pinpoint what's truly driving performance, allowing them to focus their deep human investigation where it matters most, rather than sifting through endless numbers.

AI Research Assistant

Deploy AI to conduct initial market research by summarising competitor earnings calls, synthesising analyst reports, and monitoring news for key industry trends. Your team can then receive a daily or weekly intelligence briefing, drastically cutting down on manual research time and ensuring they're always up-to-date on the external landscape.

Executive Summary Drafter

After completing a complex analysis, use a Large Language Model (LLM) to generate a first draft of the executive summary, key takeaways, and potential slide headlines for a PowerPoint presentation. This speeds up the crucial communication phase, allowing your team to refine and perfect their message rather than starting from a blank page.

Common questions

How do you become a Manager, Corporate Planning?

Common routes in include Senior Corporate Planning Advisor (Internal Promotion) (3-5 years as a Senior/Lead Advisor), Management Consultant (External Hire) (8-12 years at a top-tier management consulting firm (e.g., 'Big 4', MBB)) and Strategic Finance Lead (External Hire) (10-15 years in a strategic finance or FP&A leadership role in a large corporate.). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Manager, Corporate Planning progress to?

This role can lead on to Director, Corporate Strategy (L6) (3-5 years as Manager, Corporate Planning), depending on the skills you build.

What level is a Manager, Corporate Planning in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 5 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for a Manager, Corporate Planning?

Increasingly, AI-Driven Strategic Foresight and Digital Transformation Leadership. These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most of them were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

A single career-coaching hour costs more than a month of this, and it ends when the hour does. Zavmo doesn't. It's £70 a month, about £2.30 a day, for a companion that knows a Manager, Corporate Planning, works on the job you actually do, and keeps going at your pace rather than a timetable's.

Searching and planning stay free. You only pay when you start learning.
Your credits are yours. Regulated, and they don't vanish when a subscription ends.
Cancel any time and billing stops. No notice period, no minimum term.

Your path, personalised

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.

This route runs to 5 national skill standards. That is a real journey.

Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming a Manager, Corporate Planning: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

Independent research finds well-designed intelligent tutoring performs nearly as well as one-to-one human tutoring: VanLehn (2011), Educational Psychologist.

A private tutor in the UK averages £35–40 an hour . Zavmo is £70/month.

A Zavmo curriculum screen: a three-month plan built for a customer support lead, five Ofqual-regulated units and a hundred and ninety-six credits. — A real plan on learn.zavmo.ai: Ofqual-regulated units, credits, and a three-month run at your own pace.

Start free No commitment. See your first steps free.

15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 5

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in Internal Consulting

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

The skills you'll develop as a Manager, Corporate Planning, are highly transferable. You could move into leadership roles in corporate development, strategic finance, product strategy, or even general management in other industries. Your ability to analyse complex problems, influence senior leaders, and drive strategic change is valued everywhere.

Not sure this is the right direction?

Work out what you actually want from work first, then come back and see which roles fit it. Takes about ten minutes.

You're not behind. You're right on time. The shift is only just beginning. Your role won't look the same in two years. Be the one who leads the change, not the one it happens to. Build my plan, free Here's the first ten minutes: a 2-minute confidence check → your personalised roadmap → meet the tutors matched to you. No card, cancel any time. No card. Build your plan, see your roadmap and meet the twelve tutors matched to you. All free. When you're ready to start learning, it's £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.

Manager, Corporate Planning

What's rising in its place

AI-Driven Strategic Foresight

Digital Transformation Leadership

Skills this role draws on

Technical

How you actually get there, here

Senior Corporate Planning Advisor (Internal Promotion)

Management Consultant (External Hire)

Strategic Finance Lead (External Hire)

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

Roles this leads to

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

A conversation, not a course

No two people run this the same way

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Everything else the record holds

The career path, and where it branches

Director, Corporate Strategy (L6)

Where AI is starting to help

Automated Data Wrangler

Insight Accelerator

AI Research Assistant

Executive Summary Drafter

Common questions

You’ve started things before

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.