DAS Strategy & Planning Coordinator

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: DAS Strategy & Planning Coordinator

Reports to: Director and Head of Digital Access Solutions for Central Europe

Location: Prague Czech Republic

Scope:

ASSA ABLOY is the global leader in access solutions.We aim to deliver innovative safe and convenient security solutions that provide real added value to customers. The group has an annual turnover of 8billion and over 50000 employees. ASSA ABLOY has four times been listed by Forbes as one of the worlds 100 most innovative companies.

The ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions EMEIA division leads the development within door openings and products for access solutions in homes businesses and institutions. Our offering includes doors door and window hardware locks access control and division has an annual turnover of 2billion and 12000 employees with commercial and operational activities managed through 13 Market Regions across Europe Middle East India and Africa.

We are currently looking for aposition of DAS Strategy & Planning Coordinator.

Purpose of the role

The purpose of this role is to provide structured analytical and coordination support to the DAS Central Europe (CE) organization. The position helps ensure smooth planning reporting and crossregional collaboration by consolidating inputs from multiple markets preparing clear summaries for decisionmaking and maintaining key governance processes. The role supports the Head of DAS CE by bringing structure to complex topics coordinating recurring strategic workflows and enabling effective communication and alignment across countries and functions.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic & Operational Support

• Prepare analyses insights and decision materials needed for leadership discussions.
• Manage followup on actions decisions and commitments across countries and functions.
• Support the Head of DAS CE with coordination tasks that require structured preparation consolidation and alignment.
• Step into selected internaldiscussions when delegated ensuring continuity and clarity of communication.

2. Quarterly Planning Process

• Coordinate the CE QPP Lite process endtoend ensuring consistent timely inputs from all markets.
• Consolidate CE priorities risks dependencies and capacity needs into unified submissions.
• Prepare documentation and alignment materials for crossfunctional and crossBA interactions.
• Track open items and ensure structured closure.

3. Monthly Strategy Cockpit & Performance Management

• Lead the CE monthly update process by validating completeness accuracy and quality of country and product-level data.
• Provide synthesized summaries and highlight key insights deviations and trends for CE leadership.
• Ensure full adherence to CE quality standards naming conventions and reporting cadence.

4. CrossFunctional & CrossRegional Coordination

• Act as a coordination point between CE markets and functions such as Operations IT Services and Security.
• Prepare claritydriven alignment frameworks ahead of calls workshops and checkpoints.
• Support the integration of CE insights into Product Segment (PS) and Business Area (BA) discussions.

5. Governance Process Discipline & Continuous Improvement

• Maintain dashboards templates trackers and recurring governance tools.
• Continuously improve the planning and reporting frameworks to reduce workload and increase transparency.
• Bring structure to ambiguity and help standardize best practices across CE markets.

Required Qualifications and Skills

Required Qualifications

• Strong analytical and organizational skills with the ability to work with data and structure information clearly
• First experience in planning PMO business operations strategy or coordination roles (e.g. 13 years) or strong motivation to grow in these areas
• Proactive mindset willingness to learn and openness to taking ownership of assigned tasks
• Ability to collaborate with different stakeholders and communicate clearly in an international environment
• Good working knowledge of Excel and interest in developing skills in Power BI and digital collaboration tools
• Reliability attention to detail and a structured approach to followup and task completion

Preferred Qualifications

• Interest in strategy planning processes and crossregional collaboration
• Familiarity with the DAS portfolio or Central Europe regional setup is a plus (not required)
• Curiosity and the ability to translate operational information into simple clear messages
• Experience working with recurring reporting cycles or governance processes would be helpful but we also welcome candidates eager to learn

As our common business language fluency in spoken and written English is essential (additional language skills are highly advantageous).

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Lets create a safer and more open world - together!

We are the ASSA ABLOY Group
Our people have made us the global leader in access return we open doors for them wherever they go. With nearly 63000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries we help billions of people experience a more open world. Our innovations make all sorts of spaces physical and virtual safer more secure and easier to access.

As an employer we value results not titles or backgrounds. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions supporting them with regular feedback training and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact and we encourage them to grow their role locally regionally or even internationally.

As we welcome new people on board its important to us to have diverse inclusive teams and we value different perspectives and experiences.