Business Planner

Are you looking for a role that combines business planning, analytics, and strategic decision support? Can you see yourself turning data into insights that help drive organizational performance and informed decision-making? Do you enjoy collaborating with stakeholders, analyzing complex information, and developing planning and reporting products that support business success? If you answered yes, this may be the job for you. Apply today as our Chalk River location is looking for a Business Planner to support operational planning, performance reporting, business analytics, and decision-making across the Science & Technology mission.

What you will be doing!

• Supporting the development, integration, and maintenance of operational plans through structured analysis, coordination, and documentation to enable informed decision‑making by senior leadership.
• Supporting annual and multi‑year operational planning by coordinating inputs across the S&T Mission and preparing draft plans, forecasts, and planning documentation for review and approval.
• Analyzing complex operational and financial data to validate assumptions, identify trends, risks, and interdependencies, and summarize implications for planning decisions.
• Coordinating responses to actions assigned to the S&T Mission by identifying data requirements, soliciting inputs across S&T and CNL, and preparing accurate and timely draft responses and tracking materials.
• Providing accurate, timely, and decision‑relevant reporting that supports management oversight, financial control, and organizational accountability.
• Coordinating and preparing monthly financial and performance reports, including variance analysis and explanatory briefing materials, to support S&T senior and executive leadership oversight.
• Supporting funding distribution models by monitoring variance between actual data and predicted data to enable consistent reporting and forecasts.
• Serving as a point of contact for reporting‑related inquiries by coordinating analysis, responding to issues, and supporting resolution through data‑driven insights and options.
• Enabling evidence‑based decision‑making by providing analytical insights, scenario analysis, and structured options to inform leadership decisions.
• Conducts scenario, sensitivity, and “what‑if” analyses to assess the impacts of changes in funding, priorities, capacity, or assumptions and support planning and prioritization discussions.
• Supporting the maintenance of dashboards and leveraging analytical tools to monitor trends, assess performance, and support management decision‑making.
• Synthesizing qualitative and quantitative information into concise, decision‑ready materials that highlight key findings, implications, and risks for leadership review.
• Supporting effective coordination, governance, and information flow across internal and external stakeholders to enable efficient planning and reporting processes.
• Coordinating working‑level engagement across S&T Directorates and CNL stakeholders to support the timely collection, validation, and alignment of planning and reporting inputs.
• Supporting governance processes by tracking commitments, milestones, and deliverables, and ensuring documentation meets established standards, requirements, and timelines.
• Supporting the preparation, compilation, and quality review of materials for executive briefings and external submissions (e.g., AECL), prior to senior review and approval.
• Other duties as assigned by your manager.
  

What we are looking for:

• Education
  • University Degree or Diploma from a recognized educational institute and four (4) to six (6) years’ experience or equivalent combination of formal training.
  • A Master's degree in a business, engineering or science-related field would be considered an asset.
• Experience
  • Minimum of 3 - 5 years of related and progressive experience is required.
• Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
  • Excellent leadership capabilities with demonstrated comfort engaging with people and cross-functional teams to accomplish objectives, form new relationships, optimize resources, and solve challenging problems.
  • Outstanding organizational skills and oral and written communication capabilities.
  • Ability to define and manage improvement projects and special initiatives with limited guidance.
  • Adept at synthesizing complex information and distilling such information into clear and concise messages for written reports or oral presentations.
  • Strong presentation skills.
  • Strong computer skills, specifically advanced-level capability in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint).
  • Ablity to learn/use CNL’s document management system and other applications.
  • Highly self-motivated and team player.
  • Comfortable performing duties based on broad general direction and minimal oversight and willing to work cooperatively with others.
  • Knowledge of strategic and operational planning processes, balanced scorecards and performance management.
• Security Clearance Eligibility Required

  • Reliability Status with Site Access Security Clearance (SASC), which has a minimum requirement of 3-5 years of verifiable history in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United States and/or the United Kingdom. CNL implements security screening in accordance with the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat's “Standard on Security Screening” and the “Policy on Government Security.”

Working Conditions:

• Working schedule: Five (5) days per week, seven and a half (7.5) hours per day for a thirty-seven and a half (37.5) hour work week.

Why CNL?

Does the idea of working with a dynamic team across Canada to advance nuclear science and technology for a clean and secure world excite you? At CNL, we’re reinventing ourselves to be industry leaders—pioneering solutions to the problems that matter most.

From building the next generation of clean nuclear and hydrogen energy technologies, to developing targeted cancer treatments, to continuing our global leadership in environmental remediation—we are driven by impact, innovation, and purpose.

What We Offer: A Total Rewards Package

We believe in taking care of our people. Here’s what you can expect as part of our team:

• Paid time off: vacation, sick, personal, and floater days
• Benefits effective Day One – no waiting period
• Tuition support to help you keep learning and growing
• A defined-benefit pension plan or a defined-contribution pension plan, depending on your employee group, to support your long‑term financial security

Do Our Priorities Resonate with You?

• Delivering clean energy for today and tomorrow
• Restoring and protecting the environment
• Contributing to the health of Canadians

If so, you’ll feel right at home at CNL!

Location: Onsite

Located in the heart of the Ottawa Valley, our Chalk River site offers a beautiful natural setting with forests, lakes, and wildlife, right at your doorstep. Surrounded by welcoming communities such as Deep River, Petawawa, and Pembroke, you’ll have access to unparalleled outdoor adventures and a fantastic work-life balance.

Please note: This is a fully on-site position based at our Chalk River Laboratory in Ontario.

Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

At CNL, we are committed to fostering an environment that promotes equity, diversity, and inclusion. We celebrate and welcome employees, stakeholders, and partners of all backgrounds and identities. Click here to read all about it!

We are proud to uphold a workplace culture grounded in our Core Values:

• Respect
• Teamwork
• Accountability
• Safety
• Integrity
• Excellence

These values drive our employment practices and ensure meaningful career development opportunities and accommodations for all employees.

CNL is an equal opportunity employer. If you require accommodation during any phase of the hiring process, please let us know via [email protected]. All requests will be handled with confidentiality.

CNL operates on sites located on the traditional lands, waterways and ceded and unceded territories of Indigenous peoples. CNL recognizes and affirms all First Nations, Métis communities and Inuit in this land we now know as Canada. We acknowledge, respect and seek to better understand Indigenous history, rights and title on the lands where we work and develop projects. We honour and respect the importance of the relationship between Indigenous peoples and their lands, waters and territories.