Senior Manager, Strategic Planning
Added 22 Aug · still live
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Salary
Not disclosed by employer
£41,700
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role likely qualifies for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 3549 (76% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £41,700, and Checkout.com is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
About the role
Company Description
We’re Checkout.com. You might not know our name, but companies like eBay, Spotify, Klarna, Uber, and Sony do, because we’re behind many of the digital experiences you use every day.
We are where the world checks out, enabling over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers.
Whether you want to book a holiday, order food, renew a subscription, or check out online, there’s a good chance our tech powers the payments behind the scenes. Our platform helps the most ambitious businesses deliver effortless digital experiences, at scale.
If you want to do career-defining work, you’ve come to the right place. We move fast, think globally, and believe great teams are built by hiring exceptional people with conviction, curiosity, and the desire to make an impact.
With 20 offices across six continents and London as our HQ, we’re shaping the future of fintech – and we’re just getting started.
At Checkout.com, we create Marketing that Moves: moves people to buy our products, builds a brand where top-notch marketers trust us with their careers, and fuels growth to make Checkout.com the irresistible choice.
As our business ambition continues to grow, we’re looking for a Senior Manager, Strategic Planning to help bring focus, momentum, and operational excellence to our Marketing organisation. This is a high-impact, hands-on role for someone energised by pace, problem-solving, and building in complex, fast-moving environments, with a genuine passion for marketing as a growth driver.
Working in close partnership with the CMO and the extended Marketing leadership team, you’ll be exposed to the full breadth of how a global marketing organisation operates: strategy, planning, execution, and performance. You’ll help connect the dots across teams, priorities, and data, ensuring great ideas turn into action and momentum is sustained as we scale.
This is an exceptional opportunity to work alongside a leadership team focused on building an iconic global brand. If you’re a natural problem-solver who thrives on pace, brings clarity to complexity, and wants to shape how Marketing works and drives impact, this role is for you.
How You’ll Make An Impact
We’re Checkout.com. You might not know our name, but companies like eBay, Spotify, Klarna, Uber, and Sony do, because we’re behind many of the digital experiences you use every day.
We are where the world checks out, enabling over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers.
Whether you want to book a holiday, order food, renew a subscription, or check out online, there’s a good chance our tech powers the payments behind the scenes. Our platform helps the most ambitious businesses deliver effortless digital experiences, at scale.
If you want to do career-defining work, you’ve come to the right place. We move fast, think globally, and believe great teams are built by hiring exceptional people with conviction, curiosity, and the desire to make an impact.
With 20 offices across six continents and London as our HQ, we’re shaping the future of fintech – and we’re just getting started.
At Checkout.com, we create Marketing that Moves: moves people to buy our products, builds a brand where top-notch marketers trust us with their careers, and fuels growth to make Checkout.com the irresistible choice.
As our business ambition continues to grow, we’re looking for a Senior Manager, Strategic Planning to help bring focus, momentum, and operational excellence to our Marketing organisation. This is a high-impact, hands-on role for someone energised by pace, problem-solving, and building in complex, fast-moving environments, with a genuine passion for marketing as a growth driver.
Working in close partnership with the CMO and the extended Marketing leadership team, you’ll be exposed to the full breadth of how a global marketing organisation operates: strategy, planning, execution, and performance. You’ll help connect the dots across teams, priorities, and data, ensuring great ideas turn into action and momentum is sustained as we scale.
This is an exceptional opportunity to work alongside a leadership team focused on building an iconic global brand. If you’re a natural problem-solver who thrives on pace, brings clarity to complexity, and wants to shape how Marketing works and drives impact, this role is for you.
How You’ll Make An Impact
- Leading a small team, you’ll support marketing strategy and planning, helping translate business priorities into clear plans, goals, and roadmaps across the Marketing organisation. You’ll highlight the trade-offs and options we have to deliver greater impact.
- You’ll identify and help to structure problems, analyse options, and drive clear recommendations. You’ll help the team capitalise on their largest opportunities.
- Partner closely with the CMO and Marketing Leadership Team (MLT) to support prioritisation, preparation for key forums, Board updates and follow-through on decisions and actions.
- Run the Marketing operating rhythm, including planning cycles, leadership meetings, business reviews, and goal tracking, keeping momentum as priorities shift. Forums include important planing and synchronisation meetings, including MLT, Regional go-to-marketing (GTM) Meetings, Weekly Planning Forums, Marketing All Hands and Half Yearly Business Reviews.
- Lead the Marketing budget process. Own the annual marketing budget by marketing function and by region. Drive the necessary debate and alignment in budget setting, measurements and governance. Detail the approach to Regional and Global Management best practice, be the single point of contact with the Finance Business Planning Team for Headcount planning, program spend and operating expenses management and analysis
- Improve operational excellence by bringing structure to processes, documentation, ways of working, and reporting. Drive execution across fast-moving, cross-functional initiatives by coordinating inputs, managing dependencies, and unblocking issues under tight deadlines. Own the Campaign Planning process helping to ensure that all marketers have quality work in the system.
- Supporting the marketing talent development process, throughout the lifecycle of talent - from attraction through to development and mobility. Set the talent level frameworks with the HR Business Partner, drive the setting and attainment of goals, steer the calibration and bi-annual performance management process with the leaders in the organisation. Coordinate resource allocation
- Energised by pace, complexity, and problem-solving, with the ability to stay focused and effective as priorities shift.
- A strong strategic thinker who genuinely enjoys execution and making things happen.
- A clear passion for marketing, with curiosity about how brand, product, data, and performance come together to drive growth.
- Comfortable working with data, planning cycles, and performance metrics to support decision-making and prioritisation.
- Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and deadlines at once.
- An excellent communicator, confident working with senior leaders and cross-functional teams to drive alignment and decisions.
- A natural connector who builds strong relationships and helps teams work better together. Sound judgement and discretion when handling sensitive topics and information.
- A growth mindset, with strong motivation to learn, develop, and grow alongside a senior leadership team.
Bring all of you to work
We create the conditions for high performers to thrive, through real ownership, fewer blockers, and work that makes a difference from day one.
Here, you’ll move fast, take on meaningful challenges, and be recognized for the impact you deliver. It’s a place where ambition gets met with opportunity, and where your growth is in your hands.
We work as one team, and we back each other to succeed. So whatever your background or identity, if you’re ready to grow and make a difference, you’ll be right at home here.
It’s important we set you up for success and make our process as accessible as possible. So let us know in your application, or tell your recruiter directly, if you need anything to make your experience or working environment more comfortable.
Life at
Checkout.com
We understand that work is just one part of your life. Our hybrid working model offers flexibility, with three days per week in the office to support collaboration and connection.
Curious about what it’s like to be part of our team? Visit our Careers Page to learn more about our culture, open roles, and what drives us.
For a closer look at daily life at Checkout.com, follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram
We understand that work is just one part of your life. Our hybrid working model offers flexibility, with three days per week in the office to support collaboration and connection.
Curious about what it’s like to be part of our team? Visit our Careers Page to learn more about our culture, open roles, and what drives us.
For a closer look at daily life at Checkout.com, follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram
This description is the source posting as it read when we added it. We are not affiliated with Checkout.com, so check their own site for the current details.
Where this offer sits in the market
SOC 3549 · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · ~82k in sampleP25 £28kP75 £46k
£25kmedian £35kgoing rate £42k£46k
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The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 3549 going rate of £41,700. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.