Programme Planner

3 weeks ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom National Highways Full time

**Your new role**

National Highways has an exciting opportunity for a Programme Planner to join the MP Change Team, within the Major Projects (MP) directorate based out of our Birmingham Offices.

The Programme Planner will play a leading role in supporting the Programme and Project teams in managing scheduling updates and assuring supplier information within the Transformation Management Office (TMO). You will work with a range of stakeholders to ensure that programme information is produced in line with the required standards and is of the highest quality. You will report back to key stakeholders on performance and provide recommendations to support and enhance the project journey.

**What you will be leading on**
- Establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with key stakeholders such as project teams and supply chain. Engage with the supply chain to ensure planning and scheduling processes and best practices are being applied and adhered to in the submission of programmes.
- Gain a full understanding of baseline project control framework products and handbooks to provide advice and guidance on monthly reporting requirements and provide technical support to the teams.
- Creating and maintaining programme plans that are of a high quality, logic, format and content to enable robust interrogation and can support informed decision making at project and programme level.
- Engage with Project Controls managers, risk and cost colleagues to support monthly programme integration, forecasting activities and data alignment. Enabling credible monthly reporting for the programme through data quality assurance.
- Develop and enhance monthly reporting to advise on programme status, performance and the anticipated achievement of milestone dates. Provide recommendations to mitigate potential programme delays and support in the identification of risks and opportunities.
- Drive the change identification process, ensuring that it is aligned to documented processes and the required governance is applied to ensure that all required changes to baseline are managed effectively, communicated and documented.

**To be successful you will have**:

- Experience of working in a complex programme and project environment.
- Great presentation skills with the ability to provide stakeholders with programme / project updates.
- Data analysis experience with demonstrable evidence of interrogating project programmes and providing recommendations for mitigation actions to support improvements to the delivery of milestones.
- Excellent stakeholder management experience and ability to build and maintain collaborative relationships to influence relationships for positive outcomes

**A bit about us**

Major Projects delivers large, complex multi-million-pound projects that improve England’s strategic road network. Our Change Division is the focal point for improving how Major Projects operates. It is a relatively small, agile team that is aspiring to have a big impact on how our infrastructure projects and programmes deliver. Through effective team working, building collaborative relationships across the sector and a disciplined approach to making change happen, we will improve the efficiency, effectiveness and outcomes of those infrastructure projects.

We exist to enable our business and our supply chain to deliver the objectives of “Road Investment Strategy 2” and beyond.

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