About T-Mobile: T-Mobile US, Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS), headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, is America’s supercharged Un-carrier, connecting millions through its strong nationwide network and flagship brands, T-Mobile and Metro by T-Mobile. Customers benefit from an unmatched combination of value, quality, and exceptional service experience.About TMUS Global Solutions: TMUS Global Solutions is a world-class technology powerhouse accelerating the company’s global digital transformation. With a culture built on growth, inclusivity, and global collaboration, the teams here drive innovation at scale, powered by bold thinking. TMUS India Private Limited operates as TMUS Global Solutions.Sr Strategy & Planning Manager Job Summary: The Senior Strategy & Planning Manager owns the development and execution of IT’s long-range strategic and operating plans, ensuring they are financially grounded, executable, and aligned to enterprise priorities. This role is accountable for translating IT strategy into actionable roadmaps, labor plans, and partner strategies that leadership relies on to make funding, staffing, and investment decisions. The role leads strategic initiatives to improve labor efficiency across IT by optimizing internal capacity, strategic partners, and delivery models. Success is measured by clear executive decision-making, improved labor efficiency, effective partner governance, and delivery of a credible multi-year IT roadmap that enables business outcomes.Why This Role Matters: IT’s ability to deliver on enterprise priorities increasingly depends on how effectively labor, partners, and delivery models are planned, governed, and optimized. This role brings clarity, rigor, and accountability to how IT translates strategy into executable labor and partner plans, enabling leaders to make confident, timely investment and staffing decisions in a complex, fast-changing environment.Overview: The Senior Strategy & Planning Manager plays a critical role in shaping and operationalizing the IT organization’s strategic direction. This role sits at the intersection of IT strategy, labor planning, and execution, ensuring long-range priorities can be delivered within complex, Agile-based technology environments. The role partners closely with IT leaders, Finance, Procurement, HR, and Enterprise teams to improve labor efficiency, strengthen delivery models, and govern strategic IT partners. The ideal candidate has deep experience operating across fragmented IT environments, understands SDLC and Agile development models, and is comfortable owning high-consequence executive deliverables. This includes supporting, standing up, and scaling Global Capability Centers (GCCs) as part of IT’s broader delivery and labor strategy.What Success Looks Like: Within the first year, this role establishes a trusted, executive-level operating rhythm for IT labor and partner planning. Leadership has clear visibility into capacity, cost, and delivery tradeoffs, vendor performance is actively governed, and labor decisions are grounded in data rather than assumptions. Strategic plans are not only created, but consistently used to drive funding, staffing, and prioritization decisions.Key Responsibilities: Executive Communication and Strategic Influence: Own executive-ready strategic plans, multi-year roadmaps, and decision materials that directly inform IT funding, labor, and investment decisions. Clearly articulate labor tradeoffs, partner performance, and delivery risks to senior leaders, enabling faster and more confident decision-making. Serve as a trusted thought partner to IT executives on long-range planning and organizational effectiveness.Strategic Planning and Labor Efficiency: Own the development and maintenance of IT’s multi-year strategic roadmap and operating plan. Lead IT labor planning across internal teams and strategic partners, translating demand, capacity, and cost inputs into actionable workforce and sourcing plans. Drive cross-functional initiatives focused on labor cost reduction, delivery model optimization, and improved utilization across internal and external resources.Cross-Functional Collaboration and Delivery Enablement: Partner across IT, Finance, HR, Procurement, and Enterprise teams to align strategy, labor, and execution. Operate effectively within SDLC and Agile development environments to ensure plans align to delivery realities. Lead cross-functional initiatives that require influence without authority and coordination across multiple IT domains.Partner Governance and Financial Management: Partner with FP&A to support budget oversight, labor governance, and long-range cost planning. Establish and operate governance mechanisms with strategic IT vendors, including performance reviews, QBRs, financial tracking, and corrective action planning. Use data-driven insights to identify cost drivers, capacity gaps, and optimization opportunities.Qualifications: Required: Bachelor’s Degree and 7+ years of related experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience 7–10 years of experience in IT strategy, program management, operations, consulting, or analytics Demonstrated experience working in SDLC and Agile development environments Proven ability to operate cross-functionally across IT, Finance, HR, and Procurement Strong financial planning, labor modeling, and analytical skills Executive-level communication and influence skillsPreferred: Experience leading IT labor workforce optimization initiatives with measurable financial impact Experience governing strategic IT partners or vendors Background operating within large, complex enterprise IT organizations Experience supporting, standing up, or scaling Global Capability Centers (GCCs) as part of an enterprise IT delivery modelCandidate Profile: This role is best suited for leaders who are comfortable operating in ambiguity, owning high-consequence deliverables, and driving outcomes in complex, federated IT environments. 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Sr Strategy & Planning Manager [T500-22939]