People & Places (PPL) Planning Operations Manager

CO Salary Range: USD 114,700.00 - 185,570.00 per year

Job Requisition ID #

25WD91496

Position Overview

The Planning Operations Manager will accelerate the work of the People and Places (PPL) organization's Portfolio, Planning, and Programs. We are seeking a highly organized big picture thinker who can swivel to detailed thinking and execution in a single conversation. This role focuses on two primary things: 1. Operational support of PPL's portfolio, planning, and program work including OKR management, monthly and quarterly business reviews, and general operational rhythms and hygiene, and 2. Enablement support of the wider PPL planning ecosystem - building reliable, repeatable processes for planning and delivery ensuring teams have clarity on goals and timelines.

This newly created role works directly with the PPL Sr. Portfolio & Planning Manager to shape how we deliver work at scale. The Planning Operations Manager will drive reliable processes and demonstrate leadership in inspiring alignment as a key part of the PPL team's ongoing evolution while directly contributing to growth at Autodesk.

To do the role effectively, the right candidate will be able to establish strong partnerships to connect strategy to execution across projects, ensuring collaboration across PPL functions delivering high quality results. They will document and role model effective decision-making and teamwork in ambiguous and high-visibility situations.

This position will report to the Sr Portfolio and Planning Manager, and it can be 100% in the U.S.

Responsibilities

• Implement planning operating rhythms, norms, and practices in partnership with the Sr. Manager and other stakeholders to ensure efficient and effective program design, monitoring, and delivery
• Identify ways to continually improve and recommend solutions to address those gaps
• Continually improve frameworks, mechanisms, and tools to enable program planning and execution across PPL
• Establish and build strong working relationships with end users, partners, and stakeholders to gather insights, test solutions, and ensure successful change adoption and impactful results

• 6-8+ years of work experience in operational planning and program management
• Prior experience implementing and upleveling efficient and effective organizational planning rhythms
• Data-driven decision maker with evidence of roles that required analytical thinking to drive results
• Comfort and confidence working across multiple systems and tools to drive results
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills with proven ability to communicate with all levels of an organization
• Ability to manage complex projects and stakeholders in parallel with high levels of quality and impact
• Agile approach to working with an orientation to pragmatic problem solving that enables immediate impact with space to grow as the team tests, iterates and learns
• Demonstrated global program management capability in a complex matrixed environment
• Demonstrated experience of leading with indirect authority

• Experience working within a complex global organization and planning tools (e.g., Airtable)
• BA/BS in relevant field (Business, human resources, management, etc.)

• Motivated by the opportunity to build and create something
• Learner with an appetite to iterate the improve current state
• Collaborative mindset with strong relationship management
• Comfort with ambiguity and motivated to solve complex problems
• We > Me - Teamwork gives you energy and people lean-in to a project when you get involved