Job Description:

We're currently recruiting for Programme and Portfolio Planners to join our Change Function to support large complex programmes and portfolios of work, in a variety of area's including Finance and Actuarial. This involves working closely with senior delivery leads and SMEs in complex environments to develop implementation plans, from a Plan on a Page, to detailed Level 3 or Level 4 Microsoft Project plans. The Planner will have ownership of plans, ensuring key controls and measures are in place to drive timely and appropriate decision making.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Ability to build relationships, partnerships and networks and ability to maintain these effective relationships to drive projects forward.
• Planning and organisational skills to delegate work activities to efficiently accomplish tasks and meet objectives.
• Able to interpret and influence both the external and internal environments by creating positive relationships with stakeholders, through the appropriate management of their expectations and agreed objectives.

Core Responsibilities:

• Work with a number of senior delivery leads and project managers to define ownership for the development of detailed (Level 3 or 4) plans within Microsoft Project, ensuring consistency and alignment to standards
• Provide oversight, guidance and support to project and programme managers on plan development and plan management, ensuring appropriate governance is effectively in place
• Create and maintain and present executive-level MI for senior internal and external stakeholders, including, but not limited to, programme / portfolio roadmap, Life Management Board milestone tracker, steering group and board reporting.
• Create and maintain the relevant critical path(s) and other plan outputs to produce MI to inform and advise governance forums as appropriate.
• Create and manage dependency maps that can feed into the wider Portfolio and/or Enterprise dependency map. Ensure intra-project and external dependencies are identified by project managers and agreed and tracked through to completion with the dependent party. Provide oversight - challenge and validity of dependencies.
• Where required, provide development to Project Managers on the use of Microsoft Project for the development and maintenance of complex project and programme plans.
• Capture planning lessons learned, ensuring these are incorporated into planning standards and templates, where appropriate.
• Provide guidance and oversight for the identification and tracking of milestones and planning assumptions in SmartCore (PPM tool).
• Where you will be line managing, you will provide day to day support and guidance to individuals including performance reviews and development

Benefits:

• A highly competitive salary
• Wider Benefits package

Core-Asset Consulting is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital/civil partner status or pregnancy.

Job reference: 14375

To apply for this vacancy applicants must be eligible to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

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