Senior Planner

3 weeks ago


Manchester, United Kingdom ISG plc Full time

**Division**: Construction North

**Location**: Manchester

Role purpose
To provide a timely, effective and professional total planning service for proposals and projects within a specific division or allocated live project(s). Dealing with internal and external clients and advising on a regular consultative basis. As expected of a senior role, development of strategic relationships with clients, consultant together with suppliers and contractors is required.

Key Accountabilities
- Provide total planning service for proposals and projects within a specific business unit or allocated to live project(s) to work at site or office location.
- Ensure company best practice and protocols are adhered to.
- Leads programme-related meetings and forums for planning staff within the specific division.
- Provide input to maintain divisions planning database and input into the Regional database.
- Challenge and review processes to enhance planning best practice that can aide and improve performance and consistency across the business unit and wider planning community.
- Provide support and comfort to all echelons of management that planning related risk is mitigated, adopting a strategic and proactive approach to highlighting and resolving issues and taking an active part in ensuring ongoing review and continuous improvement.
- Form robust links with all key stakeholders by working closely with senior management and functional directors.
- Ensure that planning standards become a key strategic advantage to the business unit and that is being a distinct competitive advantage both internally and externally.

Skills & experience
- In-depth knowledge of the pre-construction and construction process
- Has in-depth, specialist knowledge over a wide number of areas.
- Experience or exposure to forensic planning techniques and contract law
- Has in-depth knowledge of the whole project process from inception through consultant scheme, and detail design/production, procurement, shop drawings and approvals, lead-in, construction, furniture and migration.
- Possesses conceptual planning abilities.
- Wealth of construction technology knowledge and experience
- Conversant in value management and exponent of buildability
- Leads meetings in programme related matters.
- Develops strategic relationships with consultants and specialists
- Expert in planning related software literacy and solutions for programmes/schedules etc.
- Has ability to trouble shoot and act as” radar” early warning system.

Our workplace strategy ‘Work for You’ includes flexible working practices such as hybrid working where employees can split their working time between work and home. We also recognise that some roles lend themselves to flexible options more than others, so if this is important to you please discuss this with your recruiter, during the hiring process.



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