Securitas
Planning Manager
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Planning Manager
We’re Hiring: Planning Manager!
📍 Location: Milton Keynes, MK17 8LX 💰 Pay: £35,000 🕒 Working Hours: Monday – Friday (8am–5pm), Onsite
🎓 Learning & Development:
- Outstanding Learning & Development opportunities
- Mentorship
- Benefits, including:
- Big brand discounts
- Give back schemes
Grade: E
See a Different World. Where potential is seen and progress is nurtured.
We’re building something new, and this is your chance to be part of it!
As we launch and scale a brand-new centralised Workforce Management (WFM) function, we’re looking for a Planning Manager to take a leading role in shaping how we forecast, plan, and deliver our workforce strategy alongside the Head of WFM.
This is more than a planning role—it’s an opportunity to influence how the business operates at its core, bringing innovation, structure, and insight to how we meet customer demand and balance our people’s working weeks with their personal lives.
As our new Planning Manager, you’ll play a key role in helping the business stay ahead, making sure we have the right people in place—not just for today, but for the future. You’ll lead on forecasting and workforce planning, using data and insight to build clear, practical plans that support day-to-day operations and long-term growth for Securitas and our clients.
You’ll support and guide the planning team to:
- Spot risks early
- Plan for peaks in demand
- Keep everything running smoothly
The work you do will have a real impact—helping teams make better decisions, improving service delivery, and ensuring we’re set up to grow in a sustainable, well-planned way.
Job Description
What You’ll Be Doing:
As a Planning Manager, you’ll:
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of planners, building a high-performing, forward-thinking function
- Own workforce planning and forecasting, ensuring the business is prepared to meet both current and future demand
- Take a hands-on approach using WFM systems to optimise resource allocation and planning accuracy
- Analyse:
- Historical trends
- Real-time data
- Forecasts to proactively identify risks and opportunities
- Work closely with scheduling and operations teams to ensure plans translate effectively into delivery
- Monitor live operations, adjusting plans where necessary to respond to changing demands
- Act as a key escalation point for planning-related challenges, driving swift and effective resolutions
- Ensure all planning activity is fully compliant with:
- Contracts
- Policies
- Regulatory requirements
- Improve processes and introduce smarter, more efficient ways of working to enhance service delivery
- Support recruitment planning by identifying:
- Future workforce requirements
- Capacity gaps
- Drive data accuracy and reporting, ensuring decisions are based on robust, reliable insights
- Build a team culture that reflects:
- High performance
- Accountability
- Continuous improvement
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*⚠️ Note: This list is not exhaustive but gives a good overview of the duties of the role. We welcome applicants from different industries, people-oriented leaders, and innovators ready to make a big impact!
Qualifications & Experience
What We’re Looking For:
- Strong planning, organisational, and decision-making skills
- Experience working with:
- WFM systems
- Data analysis (Timegate system desirable)
- The ability to think ahead and anticipate workforce needs
- A collaborative approach with a focus on continuous improvement
- A five-year checkable employment history or ability to provide evidence of:
- Any period of unemployment
- Self-employment
- Full- and part-time education
- Must demonstrate alignment with Securitas core values:
- Integrity
- Vigilance
- Helpfulness
- Right to work in the UK
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages
- Previous management of administration and clerical experience
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Additional Information
Why Choose Securitas?
Join our global team of 336,000+ colleagues and help make the world a safer place.
At Securitas, we live by our values of Integrity, Vigilance, and Helpfulness, and our People Promise:
- Opportunity: We see potential in every person and situation
- People: We open our eyes to all that’s good
- Purpose: We make your world a safer place
Your Benefits
- STRIVE (Securitas Perks): Discounts on retail, services, and daily spending
- Dental Plans: Cashback support for dental examinations, X-rays, and treatment
- HSF Health Plan: Affordable healthcare cash plans with peace of mind for everyday medical costs
- Cycle to Work: Save up to 42% on new bikes and equipment via salary sacrifice
- Specsavers: Discounts on eye tests and spectacles
- WeCare: 24/7 online:
- GP access
- Mental health support
- Get Fit programmes
- Toothfairy: Online dental advice from UK dentists
- Pension Plan: Employer contributions + tax relief for long-term financial security
- Payroll ISA: Flexible savings for personal financial goals
- Free Mortgage Advice
- Go & Live: Financial Wellbeing Hub
- Death in Service Benefit: Life assurance for permanent employees
Diversity & Inclusion
We are an inclusive employer, proud of our Level 2 Disability Confident status (we guarantee interviews for eligible candidates who disclose a disability).
Our commitments:
- Equality Networks through Employee Networks
- Race at Work Charter
- Armed Forces Covenant
- Events such as:
- BSL Week
- International Women’s Day
- PRIDE
- Black History Month
Our Recruitment Team reviews every application carefully. If you need support, just email us!
Take the Next Step
Join a team that values you. Click ‘I’m Interested’ and start your career with Securitas UK today.
Pay Rate (UK): Annual
Compensation: Up to £35,000 per year
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