Chief Corporate Planning Officer (CCPO)

Job Description

Requirements

• Corporate strategy and enterprise planning
• Airline economics and integrated business planning
• Enterprise performance management and evaluation
• Scenario planning, forecasting and strategic risk analysis
• Fleet strategy and whole-life option appraisal
• Corporate manpower and capability planning
• Facilities and infrastructure planning
• Government, industry and shareholder relations
• Business-case development and investment appraisal
• Programme portfolio and benefits-realization governance
• Data interpretation and executive decision support
• Clear Board-level writing, presentation and influence
• Independent judgement, constructive challenge and integrity
• People leadership, coaching and succession development

Responsibilities

• Lead the development, periodic review and execution of the Company's long-term strategy, corporate plan and annual planning framework.
• Translate the Company's mandate, shareholder expectations and national aviation priorities into clear strategic objectives, outcomes, initiatives and measures.
• Coordinate environmental scanning, market and industry analysis, scenario planning and strategic risk assessment to inform executive and Board decisions.
• Ensure departmental strategies and plans are coherent, mutually supporting and aligned with approved corporate priorities.
• Advise the Chief Executive Officer and Board on strategic choices, trade-offs, sequencing, affordability and organizational implications.
• Establish an enterprise performance management framework linking corporate objectives, departmental plans, budgets, projects and individual accountability.
• Define corporate indicators, baselines, targets, data ownership and reporting standards in consultation with accountable executives and Finance.
• Produce timely monthly, quarterly and annual performance reports that explain results, variances, emerging risks, root causes and recommended corrective action.
• Lead structured performance reviews, track executive commitments and verify that corrective actions and strategic initiatives deliver intended results.
• Maintain a reliable corporate performance scorecard and ensure that reported achievements are supported by traceable evidence and consistent definitions.
• Maintain an enterprise portfolio of strategic initiatives, major investments and transformation programmes, with clear sponsorship, milestones, dependencies, costs, benefits and risks.
• Evaluate strategic business cases before approval, testing need, options, affordability, delivery capacity, risk and expected economic or commercial benefit.
• Monitor delivery and benefits realization after approval, identify slippage or scope drift, and recommend intervention, resequencing, suspension or closure where justified.
• Ensure lessons from completed, delayed or unsuccessful initiatives are captured and applied to future planning.
• Lead structured engagement with shareholder ministries, government agencies, regulators, diplomatic missions, regional bodies, industry associations and other strategic public stakeholders.
• Coordinate accurate and consistent corporate submissions, briefings, policy positions and responses on matters affecting the airline's mandate, growth and operating environment.
• Monitor aviation policy, bilateral and multilateral developments, public investment priorities and government decisions, assessing implications for Uganda Airlines.
• Coordinate strategic input and follow-up on BASA matters, airline alliances and codeshare opportunities, ensuring alignment with Uganda Airlines' corporate strategy, network priorities and government engagement positions.
• Support executive participation in strategic industry and government forums and ensure commitments are recorded, assigned and followed through.
• Maintain appropriate boundaries between corporate planning and regulatory compliance responsibilities owned by operational post holders, Legal and other accountable functions.
• Lead long-term workforce demand planning based on fleet, network, operating model, productivity assumptions, regulatory requirements and approved growth scenarios.
• Develop integrated manpower forecasts by function, location, skill, grade and timing, in close coordination with People and Culture, Finance and departmental executives.
• Identify critical capability gaps, scarce skills, succession exposure, recruitment lead times and training pipelines that may constrain strategy execution.
• Evaluate establishment changes and manpower requests against approved structure, workload, productivity, affordability and future operating requirements.
• Track workforce-plan implementation and recommend corrective action where staffing, competency or productivity assumptions are not being achieved.
• Lead long-term fleet strategy and capacity planning, translating network and corporate scenarios into aircraft quantity, type, configuration, induction and retirement requirements.
• Coordinate rigorous fleet evaluations covering mission capability, demand, utilisation, maintenance, crew, airport, infrastructure, financing, residual-value, environmental and transition considerations.
• Prepare and maintain an approved fleet plan with realistic decision gates, acquisition lead times, induction dependencies and contingency options.
• Work with Commercial, Operations, Maintenance and Engineering, Finance, Legal and Procurement to ensure fleet decisions are executable and supported by credible whole-life analysis.
• Monitor fleet-plan assumptions and recommend adjustment when market, operational, technical, financial or regulatory conditions materially change.
• Develop the long-term corporate facilities and infrastructure plan for offices, operational facilities, training spaces, lounges, maintenance support and other strategic premises.
• Assess capacity, location, functionality, safety, security, accessibility, technology, lifecycle cost and business continuity requirements before recommending investments.
• Coordinate feasibility studies, option analysis, prioritization and benefits definition for major facilities projects, without displacing the delivery accountabilities of Procurement, Finance or user departments.
• Maintain an integrated roadmap of facility needs, dependencies, approvals and implementation timing aligned with fleet, manpower and network growth.
• Coordinate the annual corporate planning calendar and ensure strategy, budget, workforce, fleet, facilities, network and departmental plans use consistent assumptions and timelines.
• Work with Finance to translate strategic priorities into affordable financial plans while preserving Finance's ownership of budgeting, accounting and financial control.
• Work with Commercial to align long-term corporate and fleet scenarios with route and network plans while preserving Commercial's ownership of network planning and scheduling.
• Develop executive decision papers, scenario analyses and recommendations that clearly state evidence, assumptions, risks, options and consequences.
• Maintain a controlled repository of approved strategies, plans, performance definitions, assumptions and decision records.
• Integrate strategic risk, resilience, environmental and sustainability considerations into corporate plans and investment choices.
• Identify external threats and opportunities, including economic, geopolitical, regulatory, technological, climate and industry developments, and coordinate appropriate strategic responses.
• Support business continuity and crisis preparedness by ensuring critical strategic dependencies, capacity constraints and recovery priorities are understood.
• Ensure material planning assumptions are stress-tested and contingency options are maintained for plausible adverse scenarios.
• Ensure corporate plans and performance reports follow approved governance, shareholder, Board and statutory reporting requirements.
• Coordinate Board and Executive Committee planning submissions, maintaining accuracy, consistency, version control and timely clearance by accountable functions.
• Track resolutions and strategic commitments arising from Board, shareholder and executive reviews, and escalate overdue or blocked actions.
• Ensure planning and evaluation processes are transparent, evidence-based and protected from unsupported performance claims or arbitrary target changes.
• Build a capable, ethical and analytical Corporate Planning team; set objectives, review performance, develop successors and address capability gaps.
• Promote enterprise thinking and constructive challenge, ensuring planning serves the whole Company rather than individual departmental interests.
• Maintain effective collaboration with Commercial, Operations, Customer Services, Finance, People and Culture, Legal, Information Technology, Safety, Quality, Security and Internal Audit, Risk and Compliance.
• Represent Uganda Airlines in strategic planning, government, investment and industry engagements as authorized by the Chief Executive Officer.