From policy manager to strategic planning manager
10 of the 27 essential skills of a strategic planning manager are already essential for a policy manager — about 37% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 10
- skills carry over
- 17
- would be new
- 37%
- of the target job covered
- 27
- essential skills of a strategic planning manager
What a strategic planning manager does
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.
What carries over
10 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
What would be new
17 skillsEssential for a strategic planning manager and not for a policy manager. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- apply strategic thinking
- company policies
- corporate sustainability
- define organisational standards
- develop business plans
- develop organisational policies
- follow the statutory obligations
- hoshin kanri strategic planning
- impart business plans to collaborators
- implement operational business plans
- implement strategic management
- implement strategic planning
- imprint visionary aspirations into the business management
- lead managers of company departments
- liaise with managers
- management department processes
- use different communication channels
Other moves from policy manager
2 roles- regulatory affairs manager10 skills in common
- environmental protection manager10 skills in common
← policy managerstrategic planning manager →The other way round
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a strategic planning manager?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.