# Director, Business Operations & Planning

**Company**: Thomson Reuters
**Location**: Ann Arbor, Michigan
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $137,200 USD - $254,800 USD
**Category**: Operations

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## Description

The Director, Business Operations & Planning is a strategic and operational leader responsible for translating business priorities into effective plans, disciplined execution, and measurable results.

This role partners closely with senior leaders and cross-functional teams to drive business performance, improve operational effectiveness, optimize resources, and support informed decision-making.

The Director will play a key role in business planning, bringing together operational, financial, and market insights to identify opportunities, solve complex business challenges, and ensure organizational priorities are successfully executed.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Lead business operations and planning activities, aligning priorities, resources, and execution with strategic objectives, key milestones, and financial goals.

- Partner with Finance and senior leadership to deliver analytics, forecasting, performance reporting, and actionable insights that support business decisions.

- Establish and monitor key performance indicators and operating metrics, identifying trends, risks, opportunities, and areas for improved business performance.

- Identify and lead process improvement and change initiatives that increase operational efficiency, optimize resources, and support scalable growth.

- Build strong partnerships across global functions, operating units, corporate teams, and customers to drive alignment and successful execution of business priorities.

- Contribute to strategic planning and cross-functional initiatives, including new products and business opportunities, go-to-market programs, sales and marketing initiatives, and customer service models, while representing the business in key leadership forums.

**Required Qualifications**

- Significant experience in business operations, business planning, strategy, finance, commercial operations, or a related discipline within a complex organization.

- Demonstrated ability to translate business strategy into operational plans and drive execution across multiple functions and stakeholder groups.

- Strong financial and analytical acumen, including experience with forecasting, performance metrics, business analytics, and developing data-driven recommendations.

- Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives, drive continuous improvement, and effectively navigate organizational change.

- Strong executive communication, presentation, and influencing skills, with the ability to develop business cases and build trusted relationships with senior leaders and key stakeholders.

- Demonstrated leadership capabilities, including coaching and developing teams, solving complex business problems, managing competing priorities, and delivering results in a fast-paced environment.

**What's in it For You?**

- Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset.

- Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow's challenges and deliver real-world solutions.

- Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headstock app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

## Skills

### Required
- business operations
- business planning
- strategy
- finance
- analytical acumen
- leadership
- communication
- influencing

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