Senior Planning Manager

1 month ago


Watford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Mace Full time
About the Role

Mace is seeking a highly skilled Programme Planning Specialist to join our team. As a key member of our Programme Management Office (PMO), you will play a critical role in ensuring the successful delivery of our capital programmes.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and maintain programme management schedules within our agreed corporate planning tools, ensuring a single programme view with our finance systems.
  • Enforce strong governance and reporting processes, providing full visibility and successful management of business deliverables, risks, benefits, and opportunities.
  • Provide challenge during programme development to ensure the quality of information is accurate and aligned with our business' strategic direction.
  • Initiate and develop good relationships with key stakeholders across the programme workstream and wider organisation, communicating at frequent intervals.
  • Align all budgeted and remaining cost forecasts for unbriefed funding and provide an overview of alignment for briefed funding.
  • Report actuals and forecast in line with governance and the Value of Work Done (VOWD).
  • Attend reviews with the quadrant programme manager and reporting manager to agree cost profiles and baseline comparisons to update and align the baselines to be captured across the business.
  • Work with the benefits and change leads to ensure compliance and maintenance of benefits forecasts and tracking across all projects, effectively prioritising objectives and agreed regulatory commitments to give full transparency to reported results.
  • Provide business excellence support and training, particularly where there are compliance issues or skills shortages within the PMO and wider teams.
Requirements
  • Significant experience in applied programme delivery planning experience.
  • Membership of a recognised body (e.g. APM/Practitioner MSP/Prince2/P3O/PPSO/ITIL).
  • A track record in hands-on delivery planning, utilising various planning tools, with Oracle Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project as a minimum.
  • The confidence to manage teams and communicate at all levels, driving commitments and improvements to meet commercial and technical objectives and deadlines.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to analyse data and present findings to senior teams.
About Mace

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. We are committed to creating places that are responsible, bringing transformative impact to our people, communities, and societies across the globe.

We are also open to discussing part-time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role.



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