Senior Planner

Manager

Job Title- Senior Planner

• As a Senior Planner within the xxx Programme you will be reporting to the xxx Programme Director, and will work closely with Technology, project, and business teams to ensure high quality deliverables, maintaining strong 3rd party vendor and stakeholder relationships at all times.
• Your specific role will be to actively work with project managers to track project progress, maintain critical paths, control milestones and project baselines, manage interdependencies and provide management reporting across complex projects and programmes.
• Following the in-house project lifecycle and quality standards you will work with other functions within Enterprise-Wide Technology to ensure key project components are put in place with a key focus on strict change control. You will need an eye for detail, ability to shape and drive key activities forward and to think outside of the box with new innovative ways of workin

• Maintenance of multiple project plans in collaboration with project managers and workstream leads. Planning duties will include: running weekly programme update sessions to progress project plans, maintaining project plan logic; controlling project and programme milestones and baselines; and impacting the changes of task delivery to overall project and programme timelines.
• Subject Matter Expert for all planning related matters in accordance with the TTC planning standards.
• Point of contact for project managers and workstream to troubleshoot MS Project Online tooling issues.
• Support the collation of the Programme, Working Group and SteerCo packs – producing the necessary planning MI (including milestone forecast and baseline dates and RAG status) in the required format (such as ‘plan on a page’ views)
• Utilise existing MS Office based automated reporting tools to quality check MS Project plans and run automated POAP reports.
• As part of plan updates will spot potential emerging risk and issues and to act as critical friend and challenger to Project Managers during delivery. Will act as a touch point between project managers with independent tasks across different projects and programmes of work.
• Ensure plans align to broader governance requirements inside / outside of TTC (i.e., Stage Gates, TAG, Security etc)
• Input and respond to Risk, Issue and Dependency meetings. Will ensure that dependencies are represented in project plans and support impact analysis of risks and/or issues as required.
• Organising and running planning workshops across the programme. These will be necessary at project start up, during re-baselining, and during significant changes to project scope or approach.
• Perform the necessary QA checks to ensure that all project plans are maintained to the necessary quality and conform to organisation planning standards.
• Support any programme plan assurance checks and audits.

• Expert level MS Project planning skills with experience of having supported large and complex projects from conception to closure using the MS Project application.
• Excellent knowledge of MI tooling including advanced Excel skills with the ability to present detailed and fast-moving information in an effective manner.
• Excellent Stakeholder management skills and experience at all levels, and capable of developing and maintaining effective working relationships, with the ability to inspire confidence in project management and programme stakeholders.
• Necessary seniority to be able to take on the responsibilities required of the role
• Highly organised, confident, self-starter who can help shape the role
• Being able to understand the wider programme and firm objectives as well as the workstream aims
• Good knowledge of project management approaches
• Ability to find innovative ways of solving or pre-empting problems
• Driven and enthusiastic with a ‘can-do’ attitude and a strong sense of ownership to get the job done in a practical and pragmatic fashion without upsetting others
• A strong problem solver with a pragmatic and tenacious attitude to seek out resolutions
• Effective team working skills with the ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of individuals towards shared goals

Experience Level

Mid Level