Planning Manager
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Role Overview
Support planning, scheduling, and programme coordination across major projects during the pre-contract phase.
Lead programme, portfolio, and project-level planning for large-scale developments in a PMC or client-side environment.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role Overview
Support planning, scheduling, and programme coordination across major projects during the pre-contract phase.
Lead programme, portfolio, and project-level planning for large-scale developments in a PMC or client-side environment.
Strategic Planning and Integration
- Develop integrated master programmes for complex portfolios, programmes, and projects.
- Establish planning standards, scheduling methods, governance processes, and reporting frameworks.
- Prepare roadmaps, delivery strategies, and schedule hierarchies aligned with client objectives.
- Coordinate schedule interfaces among consultants, stakeholders, and delivery teams.
- Assess programme risks, dependencies, and delivery constraints.
Pre-Contract Planning
- Prepare planning inputs for feasibility studies, design development, procurement strategies, and tendering.
- Develop baseline, procurement, and design schedules and critical path analyses.
- Review consultant and contractor schedules during tender evaluations.
- Assess compliance, deliverability, resource requirements, and schedule risks.
- Support value engineering and delivery optimization studies.
Programme Controls
- Consolidate schedule information across projects to provide a portfolio-wide delivery view.
- Monitor schedule governance, progress measurement, forecasting, and risk analysis.
- Analyse critical paths, schedule health, float consumption, and milestone achievement.
- Develop recovery scenarios and planning solutions for delivery challenges.
Digital Reporting
- Develop and maintain digital dashboards using Power BI and other reporting platforms.
- Produce portfolio performance reports, KPI dashboards, trend analysis, and planning updates.
- Prepare presentations and briefing materials for senior management and client leadership.
- Support reporting automation and improvements to planning analytics and data quality.
Stakeholder Management
- Work with clients, project directors, programme teams, and technical disciplines to maintain planning alignment.
- Facilitate planning workshops, schedule reviews, and programme coordination meetings.
- Provide planning advice and schedule recommendations to project stakeholders.
- Support governance reviews by communicating programme status, risks, and milestones.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
- A master's degree is advantageous.
- PMP, PSP, AACE, PMI-SP, or equivalent certification is desirable.
- Minimum 15 years of planning and project controls experience.
- Significant PMC or client-side programme management experience.
- Experience with major programmes, portfolios, mixed-use developments, infrastructure, buildings, or giga-projects.
- Experience in pre-contract planning, tender support, procurement planning, and programme development.
- Experience preparing executive-level reporting.
- Advanced Primavera P6 expertise.
- Experience with Power BI or similar dashboards and PMIS environments.
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