Planning & Performance Lead

**Req ID**: 87631
**Department**: AR Marketing Planning and Operations
**Division**: Australia Retail
**Location**: Melbourne
About Us
At ANZ, we're shaping a world where people and communities thrive, driven by a common goal: to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our millions of customers.
About the Role
As a Planning & Performance Lead, you will be responsible for holistic financial planning, Performance, prioritisation and operational performance and financial management across the broader marketing team, including financials, agency partner operational management, Financial risk management
This role will involve interaction with the following stakeholder groups
Product Marketing
Product Tribes
Finance
Agency Partners
Procurement
Brand & Advertising team
Data team
Market research and Insights
Head of Australia Marketing
Banking is changing and we’re changing with it, giving our people great opportunities to try new things, learn and grow. Whatever your role at ANZ, you’ll be building your future, while helping to build ours.
**Role Type**: 12 months secondment/fixed term
**Role Location**: 833 Collins Street, Docklands VIC
What will your day look like?
**As a Planning & Performance Lead, you are accountable for**:
Conduct annual and quarterly budgeting and ongoing financial management of total marketing budget across AR&C, ANZ Plus, and Group marketing
Coordinating holistic planning process across the broader marketing team on an annual and quarterly basis,
Measurement and Marketing ROI including advanced analytics and real-time sources of insights enhanced with third party data
FTE management across Australia marketing
Drive the prioritisation of initiatives to align to the overarching business and marketing strategies, acting as the custodian of the campaign prioritisation process
Liaising with Finance Business Partners to ensure alignment with marketing plans
Agency partner management including retainers, SOW, and performance
Marketing liaison with Procurement on Agency partner contracts, pricing and PBRs
Managing Presentation slides for Head of Australia marketing and marketing slides for CMO to present to senior stakeholders
What will you bring?
To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:
**Discovery & Insights**: Ability to lead growth across market intelligence, portfolio economics, business implications and customer insights.
**Budget Management**: Managing budgets and forecasts at a total Marketing level. Managing the spend working with Marketing budget leads across the business. Managing month end financial results and ensuring we meet half on half cost phasing
**Cost Analysis**: Providing cost based analysis to feed into wider organisational programmes of work and analysis of future state.
Strategic, Planning and Prioritisation Ability to lead strategic planning - across marketing strategy, portfolio strategy, go to marketing strategy & plan and strategic prioritisation.
**Agency Management**: Ability to partner with B2B and B2C agencies to build effective relationships, thereby enabling effective marketing solutions & shared business outcomes. In addition, effectively managing budget to optimise working models and challenging agencies to innovate and experiment by looking at best practice outside ANZ to improve solutions for ANZ customers.
**Performance Optimisation**: Ability to follow a process through which market execution and activity is reviewed by all marketing functions via analysis, interrogation, and discovery, leading to further optimisations to ensure target delivery. Ability to ascertain where and why there are shortfalls and areas for optimisation versus the Go To Market (GTM), including product, promotions, pricing, propositions, creative, media, digital, channel and sales initiatives, to maximise effectiveness.
**Measurement and Reporting**: Ability to evaluate of activity post launch by all marketing functions, resulting in insights on how to improve future program value. It includes Measurement and Marketing ROI including working with analytics and real-time sources of insights enhanced with third party data, Post Implementation Reviews (PIR’s) that connect marketing activity to business outcomes. Leveraging analysis, interrogation, and discovery skills, and ensuring PIR’s are utilised in annual strategic planning and quarterly prioritisation, so that learnings are applied and action, driving continual improvement.
You’re not expected to have 100% of these skills. At ANZ a growth mindset is at the heart of our culture, so if you have most of these things in your toolbox, we’d love to hear from you..
So why join us?
From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be doing meaningful work that will shape a world where people and communities thrive.
But it's not just our customers who'll feel your impact. You'll feel it too. Because at ANZ, you'll have the resources, opportunities, and support you need to take the next big step in your