Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Mace combines construction expertise with consultancy to unlock potential in every person or project and redefine the boundaries of ambition. Reporting directly to the global lead-portfolio strategy and capital planning, the Regional Capital Planning Manager owns the day-to-day delivery of regional capital planning and portfolio management activities. This role ensures accurate, complete, and timely regional inputs to the global capital plan, applies global planning standards, and translates regional investment needs into evidence-based proposals. You will work closely with the regional IPMO lead, client stakeholders, and delivery partners to support regional endorsement and implementation of approved plans.

You will be responsible for:
- Operational execution: Directing capital planning BAU and FRP activities within the region, including data collection, analysis, and reporting. Implementing the global capital planning strategy locally, ensuring alignment with regional business needs and compliance with governance standards. Coordinating regional inputs into the global capital spend annual planning process. Preparing capital planning presentation packs and masterclass materials to support the global strategy. Maintaining the blueprint document in Vault aligned with the global capital planning strategy. Updating monthly regional OpCo financial presentation slides to present capital planning insights, risks, and outlook updates.
- Stakeholder collaboration: Working with regional portfolio, capital projects, experience and operations management leads, and client businesses to gather investment needs and translate them into actionable plans. Engaging with supplier affiliates for scoping, cost estimation, and forecasting of regional capital spend. Attending regional OpCo meetings to report on performance, risks, and forward-looking outlooks.
- Financial and programme support: Supporting the capital spend finance and resourcing plan (FRP) and ad hoc savings reviews at the regional level. Monitoring regional capital project performance and escalating risks or deviations to the global capital planning lead. Managing regional capital spend allocation, including ad-hoc requests, under/overspend reallocation, and accruals.
- Reporting and forecasting: Reviewing forecasts versus actuals quarterly with regional teams. Tracking progress at gateway and milestone levels for regional projects. Maintaining regional capital planning tools and documentation, ensuring data integrity and transparency.
- Continuous improvement: Identifying regional capital spend saving opportunities using benchmarking and elemental analysis. Contributing to the development of improvement plans and optimisation strategies. Supporting scenario planning and predictive modelling efforts led by the global team.

Experience
Proven experience delivering capital planning, budgeting, and forecasting. Ability to reconcile financial data and explain variances. Understanding of project cashflow, accruals, and financial controls. Experience coordinating business, finance, and delivery-partner inputs. Strong analytical and presentation skills with proficiency in required tools. Ability to challenge assumptions and escalate issues constructively.

About you
Detail-oriented and collaborative professional with strong stakeholder management skills. Comfortable working in a dynamic environment and able to balance multiple priorities. Committed to continuous improvement and delivering high-quality outcomes aligned with organisational values.

Qualifications
Relevant qualifications or equivalent experience in capital project controls, finance, or related disciplines are desirable. A commitment to upholding Mace’s values of safety, client focus, integrity, and creating opportunity is essential.