Manager Business Planning

Be a part of a revolutionary change At PMI, we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’re totally transforming our business and building our future on one clear purpose – to deliver a smoke-free future. With huge change, comes huge opportunity. So, wherever you join us, you’ll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions. Our new vision means we’re reinventing our financial modelling, planning and forecasting tools. Join us in Finance and you’ll work across the full breadth of the business, making sure our new commercial model is profitable and sustainable. There’s something new to learn every single day: changes to integrate and challenges to conquer. If you love working collaboratively and taking risks, you’ll be in your element here. Our work spans the globe and includes audit, treasury, internal control and commercial financial support. Whether your skills are in financial control, planning and forecasting, data analytics or digital risk, there’s space to move your career forward in any number of directions. Your ‘day to day’ As a Business Planning Manager, you are responsible for developing short-term and mid-term forecasts (by conducting impactful analyses on internal and external factors that affect business performance), reporting business performance to local management and to stakeholders at PMI globally, and undertaking financial evaluations (ROI, etc.) for key business initiatives. Your responsibilities include: Pricing Strategy and Business Forecasting Develop optimal pricing strategy & volume forecast by effectively analyzing market trends. Identify risks and opportunities that can impact future growth and develop proposed action plans to address these. Monitor economic, fiscal & regulatory developments, consumer behavior, and competitive landscape to translate business insights into foresights. Performance Reporting and Executive Management Support Monitor and report business performance to Local / Regional Management. Provide an update on industry trends, competition, and business KPIs (Volume, Market Share, Net Revenue, Operating Income, etc.) during business reviews. Collaborate with other functions to provide business performance updates to Regional / Global Management. Track progress of key projects/strategic plans and highlight potential opportunities / risks to maximize business performance. Business Partnering As a co-pilot to the business, conduct data driven analyses and provide recommendation on key strategic business initiatives. Assess the overall strategic fit of initiatives and undertake financial evolution (ROI, MC, Pricing, and volume) of proposed projects and new product launches (NPL). Conduct business orientations to onboard new hires (Local / Region). Deliver trainings and workshops to build forecasting / planning capabilities across finance organization. External Affairs / Investor Relations Support Support External Affairs in relation to planned engagements with external stakeholders by providing forecasts / running simulations on Govt tax collections, illicit trade estimates, and other ad-hoc matters. Support Region Finance in preparation of performance commentaries for External reporting. Business, Competitive and Consumer Intelligence Maintain industry and competitive information system and database. Collect, classify, and analyze information from internal and external sources (key competitive initiatives, Tax reports from BIR, Audited Financial Statement analysis) on periodic basis. Leverage reports issued by Consumer insights team to help shape portfolio / pricing strategy. Project Management Manage specific finance projects from planning, execution, evaluation, and migration to business-as-usual activities. What we offer Our success depends on our talented employees who come to work here every single day with a sense of purpose and an appetite for progress. Join PMI and you too can: · Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We’ll empower you to take risks, experiment and explore. · Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture, where everyone’s contribution is respected; collaborate with some of the world’s best people and feel like you belong. · Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business – our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress. Work location and schedule The Finance Center, BGC, Taguig City Monday to Friday, 8:30a-5:30pm