Planning Manager (North America Southwest Area)

Job Description

The Planning Manager plays a pivotal role in developing both immediate and long-term strategic plans for meetinghouses. These plans guide leaders in providing appropriate spaces for worship, teaching, learning, covenant-making, and sacred ordinances. An essential functional purpose of this role is to engage with key priesthood leaders, including Area Presidency Members, Area Seventies, Stake and Mission Presidents, and local Bishops and Branch Presidents, effectively and in a Christlike manner. Additionally, the ideal candidate must also be able to communicate effectively with the Area's Regional Facilities Managers, Facilities Managers, Facility Coordinators, Real Estate Project Manager, Life Cycle Manager, Finance Manager, and Construction Project Managers. This position reports to the Area Meetinghouse Planning Manager (AMPM).

Responsibilities

• Help create and analyze future physical facilities needs
• In cooperation with customers, create annual plans, budgets and schedules
• Lead meetings with customers to develop and validate planning decisions, communicate planning decisions and sensitive information, and obtain their support, concurrence and cooperation.
• Participate with customers to review performance according to quality, cost, and timeliness trends.
• Summarize and analyze forecasting of future physical facilities needs
• Communicate complex issues in simple and easy to understand terms
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, planning, urban planning, finance or related degree. Master's degree preferred
• Seven years of experience in planning, urban planning, management, finance or related field.
• Three years previous leadership/management experience.
• Exposure in various business disciplines and capability of managing detailed technical analysis
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, interacting with all levels of senior Church leaders
• Ability to negotiate
• Ability to manage confidential, sensitive, and restricted information and issues
  
  

This position is hybrid with 3 days in office and 2 days remote. If you prefer on-site you can work 5 days on site.

About Us

Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings— giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances—our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.

Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.

Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.