Portfolio Planning Manager

4 weeks ago

Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom CRA GROUP LIMITED Full time
Job Title: Planning Manager/Lead P30

About the Role:
As a key member of our Portfolio Office team, you will play a vital role in developing and implementing planning capabilities that drive business success. Your expertise will be instrumental in building and maintaining a portfolio of projects and programmes, ensuring effective leadership and championing best practice project planning standards, tools, and processes.

Key Responsibilities:
  1. Develop and implement planning strategies to drive business growth and success.
  2. Lead the introduction of best practice planning processes, tools, and templates, using industry-standard best practice as a benchmark.
  3. Manage dependencies across the portfolio of work, ensuring seamless delivery of projects and programmes.
  4. Provide specialist planning advice and support to ensure successful delivery of projects and programmes.
  5. Collaborate with stakeholders to identify areas for improvement and develop solutions to drive business success.
  6. Build and maintain external networks to access technical and professional best practice, ensuring our team stays ahead of the curve.

Requirements:
  1. Substantial experience of leading planning for progressively larger and more complex projects and programmes, and supporting the production of associated artefacts such as scoping statements, WBS, RAMs, etc.
  2. Excellent knowledge and demonstrable experience of creating integrated master schedules across multiple projects and programmes in a portfolio.
  3. Experience of identifying and managing pan-programme dependencies.
  4. Ability to drive best practice through excellent communication skills that emphasize both clarity and engagement, and show a proven ability to work well as a member of a team.
  5. Adept at presenting insights and trends in a variety of formats and levels of detail to suit different audience requirements.
  6. Substantial experience of using project schedule tools, preferably MS Project, as well as other MS tools including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, and SharePoint.

Desirable Criteria:
We encourage you to apply if you believe you meet our essential criteria, but your application will be even stronger if you have:
  • A project/programme management qualification, such as PRINCE2 Practitioner, Agile Project Management Practitioner, APM Project Management Qualification, APM Practitioner Qualification, or Project Leadership Programme.
  • Experience of working in Agile, hybrid, and waterfall project/programme delivery environments, with varying levels of maturity.
  • This role will be supporting the incumbent Portfolio Office Lead Planner in the discharge of the responsibilities outlined above, allowing the Lead Planner to focus on developing our portfolio-level plans and dependency management.

Company Information:
CRA GROUP LIMITED is a leading organization in the industry, and we are committed to providing our employees with a challenging and rewarding work environment. If you are a motivated and experienced professional looking to take your career to the next level, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

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