Enterprise Change and Demand Planning Manager

Job Posting Title

Enterprise Change and Demand Planning Manager

Salary Band

£49,734 - £72,312

Grade: MP1

Job Description

About the Role
Reporting to the Head of Transformation Management Office, you will act as the primary entry point for change initiatives, you will ensure that proposals are strategically aligned, correctly sized, assessed for value, and scheduled against available capacity. Providing a single transparent view of enterprise demand across all change types, supporting decision making through data driven insights.

You will enable effective prioritisation, improved workforce efficiency, and better alignment of resource allocation with business goals, facilitating delivery through structured and scalable planning processes.

This role plays a critical part in shaping how change is planned and delivered across the organisation. It owns the end‑to‑end change intake and planning process, ensuring demand is clearly understood, prioritised against strategic objectives, and aligned to available capacity and business value.

Working closely with senior stakeholders, the role maintains the enterprise change schedule, bringing clarity to dependencies, trade‑offs and sequencing across initiatives. Regular planning forums support informed decision‑making around prioritisation, pipeline health and resource allocation. You will form strong partnerships with Technology, Finance, HR and Transformation teams enable demand to be translated into clear, achievable delivery plans.

About You
You will have demonstrable experience in change or demand planning roles, with a strong understanding of both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

You should bring a robust background in change governance, demand management, capacity planning, and programme-level scheduling whilst having experience leading cross-functional engagement across technology, business, and support functions, with the ability to influence outcomes and drive alignment across diverse stakeholder groups.
 

Possessing strong analytical skills, particularly in interpreting demand and capacity data. You should be comfortable working with planning tools and data visualisation platforms to generate clear, actionable insights that support effective decision-making whilst having exceptional communication, collaboration, and influencing skills, as well as the ability to build strong relationships and align workforce strategies with organisational priorities. This requires the ability to negotiate and influence at a senior level, particularly when balancing competing resource demands across the enterprise.

You will also be adept at translating theory into practical action, leading change assessments, managing delivery risk, and embedding structured delivery disciplines.

About Us
The Newcastle Building Society Group comprises of Newcastle Building Society, Manchester Building Society, Newcastle Financial Advisers and Newcastle Strategic Solutions. Our purpose, connecting our communities with a better financial future inspires and directs our activities.

The Group provides traditional financial services, helping people own their own home, plan and manage their finances and operate a 32-branch network across the North-East, North-West, Cumbria and Yorkshire. Our Strategic Solutions subsidiary owns the UK’s leading savings management platform and provides managed technology services to new challenger banks and other established providers.
 

As an inclusive employer and member owned mutual, we aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We believe everyone should feel valued, respected, and celebrated for who they are, we want colleagues to feel this is a place they belong. A place to be you.
 

What do you get in return? As well as receiving a competitive annual salary based on above-market pay scales, our reward package includes:  
 

Financial 

• Corporate bonus scheme (on target 10%, up to a maximum 15%) 
• Pension scheme (up to 9% employer contribution) 
• Annual performance related pay reviews  
• Colleague mortgage scheme  
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme  
• Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection  
• Access to our financial advisers  
• Access to a range of high street and online discounts  

Work/Life Balance  

• A 35-hour weekly contract - We are happy to talk flexible working and welcome discussions 
• 30 days’ annual leave + bank holidays 
• The option to buy and sell up to 5 days’ holiday  
• Hybrid working (typically 3 days’ home based) 
• Above statutory family leave entitlement - 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay, regardless of gender or route to parenthood 

Health and Wellbeing  

• Private medical insurance  
• Access to a health cash plan through a Medicash scheme  
• Access to an employee assistance programme  
• Free onsite gym at our Cobalt head office and access to discounted gym’s 
• Two paid volunteering days’ each year 
• Cycle to work scheme 

Recognising there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to recruitment, we’re committed to ensuring every candidate has the opportunity to showcase their full potential throughout the recruitment process. We strive to make our processes as accessible as possible, if there are any ways in which we can provide support or make adjustments, we would love to discuss this with you, you can contact your Recruiter for this vacancy at dave.cowell@newcastle.co.uk

Company:

Newcastle Building Society