Lead/Account Planner

7 days ago


City Of London, United Kingdom ALSTOM Gruppe Full time
Job Description

Job Title: Lead/Account Planner

Company: ALSTOM Gruppe

Location: Remote

Job Type: Full-time

Industry: Transportation, Rail

About Us:

ALSTOM Gruppe is a leading global provider of rail infrastructure and transportation solutions. We are committed to delivering innovative and sustainable solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers.

Job Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Lead/Account Planner to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the preparation and maintenance of integrated and coordinated project programmes, enabling resource and material requirements to be forward planned to meet project deliverables.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop comprehensive, logic-linked project programmes for UK SS&I projects incorporating resource planning, materials planning, cost-loading, and earned value forecasting and reporting.
  • Continuously monitor the programmes prepared to accurately reflect progress and maintain accurate earned value and resource data for internal and external purposes.
  • Identify critical paths and ensure action plans are developed and implemented to maximize project quality, cost, and delivery objectives.
  • Through accurate reporting on Work Package progress, coordinate all functional activity on the project and ensure that problems and bottlenecks are anticipated and resolved in a timely manner to prevent negative impact on the project.
  • Provide regular reports and feedback to management on project progress and critical issues.
  • Provide sufficiently accurate data to enable the Work Package Managers and Project Managers to ensure that coordinated project activity complies with and delivers company financial and business targets on cash and project margins.
  • Through active dialogue with Work Package Managers and the Project Manager, ensure that the project programmes will deliver customer and contractual requirements to time and cost.
  • Conduct regular project coordination meetings on the status of the project with specific reference to engineering activity, sourcing, quality, cost, and delivery.
  • Support the Planning Manager with business requests and auditing the programmes against the planning procedure/work instruction.
  • Manage/mentor a small team (1-3 Planners/Assistant/Graduate Planners) to successfully deliver projects assigned to the team.
  • Ensure all programmes under their control are updated and reviewed in line with the planning procedure/work instruction.
  • Ensure all reports from their planning team are produced to a high quality and to deadlines.
  • Undertake all staff management duties for their team, including undertaking relevant Performance Management and People Review activities.
  • Travel when required to other sites across the country.
  • Occasional weekend/bank holiday cover for any major commissionings.

Requirements:

  • Extensive experience in a project planning/scheduling role, including resource and cost-loading/forecasting.
  • Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
  • Extensive experience and expert knowledge of Primavera P6 Planning Software.
  • Knowledge and experience of working in a business process environment with an emphasis on project delivery (Contractor side).
  • Understanding and experience of Earned Value Management, SPI & CPI.
  • Knowledge and experience of the Rail Industry.
  • Knowledge and experience of Rail Signalling.
  • Demonstrable people management skills and experience.
  • Expert knowledge of MS Excel.
  • Extensive experience of Earned Value Management.
  • Experience of Primavera Risk/Quantitive Schedule Risk Analysis (QSRA).

What We Offer:

ALSTOM Gruppe offers a highly competitive remuneration package, 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy or sell holiday. Contributed healthcare, life assurance, an excellent company-contributed pension scheme, and a wide range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your lifestyle.

Equal Opportunities Employer:

ALSTOM Gruppe is an equal opportunities employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local law.



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