Where a strategic planning manager can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a strategic planning manager already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Strategic planning managers create, together with a team of managers, the strategic plans of the company as a whole, and provide coordination in the implementation per department. They help to interpret the overall plan and create a detailed plan for each one of the departments and branches. They ensure consistency in the implementation.
Also known as strategy manager, corporate strategist, business continuity planning director, business continuity strategy director, strategic development manager, strategic business planning manager, innovation and strategy specialist, strategy adviser, strategic manager, planning manager.
Managers 54 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: policy manager, 40%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A strategic planning manager needs 27 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- hoshin kanri strategic planning business, administration and law
- imprint visionary aspirations into the business management management skills
- lead managers of company departments management skills
- management department processes business, administration and law
- implement operational business plans communication, collaboration and creativity
- define organisational standards management skills
- implement strategic management communication, collaboration and creativity
- advise on communication strategies communication, collaboration and creativity
- impart business plans to collaborators communication, collaboration and creativity
- develop business plans management skills
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a strategic planning manager does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- policy manager 58% covered · difficulty 51.2
- business intelligence manager 37% covered · difficulty 69
- chief executive officer 37% covered · difficulty 69
- regulatory affairs manager 36% covered · difficulty 69.7
- chief operating officer 35% covered · difficulty 70.4
- environmental protection manager 34% covered · difficulty 71.4
- business analyst 20% covered · difficulty 81.8
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Strategic planning manager is filed under Managers, ISCO major group 1. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a strategic planning manager’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.