Project Planner (Assumptions

Your new company

You will be working for a known organisation working remotely but with the occasional travel into the London office as and when required. The rate is up to £550 per day inside scope of IR35 and the role does require someone with active SC Clearance with a government body. Anyone without this will not be considered.

Your new role

Lead programme planning, assumptions management and planning assurance, ensuring the programme maintains a credible, integrated and assured view of delivery. Provide constructive challenge to delivery areas on the quality, completeness and credibility of plans, assumptions, forecasts and delivery positions. Provide constructive challenge to delivery areas on the quality, completeness and credibility of plans, assumptions, forecasts and delivery positions.

• Lead the operational programme planning capability.
• POAP production/coordination and transition to sustainable process.
• Assured Integrated Programme Plan.* Maintain oversight of the Integrated Programme Plan, milestones, and planning baseline in conjunction with the Head and Senior Analyst.
• Assumptions data cleanse and establishment of ownership/review cadence.
• Established assumptions lifecycle and governance.
• Ensuring Programme Internal/External Dependencies are captured within the Integrated Programme plan for scenario modelling.
• Planning data-quality and assurance review.
• Regular schedule-health/planning assurance reporting.
• Establish and apply planning standards, quality criteria and assurance checks.
• PPPT PDCF/PRAF planning inputs where applicable.
• Critical-path and forward-look planning analysis.
• Lead planning reviews, schedule assurance, workshops, replanning and rebaselining activities.
• Support transition of MS Project activity from Head.
• Defined planning/rebaselining standards.
• Maintain oversight of programme milestones, critical path, dependencies and cross-workstream planning impacts.
• Establish planning assurance criteria/checks.
• Integrated assurance of MSP/PftW planning information.
• Own the programme assumptions management process, ensuring assumptions are clearly defined, owned, reviewed, validated and retired/escalated appropriately.
• Reduced manual POAP/reporting activity.
• Assess assumptions for potential impact on milestones, dependencies, risks and delivery confidence.
• Coordinate planning assurance reviews and provide challenge to Delivery Leads.
• Identify planning gaps, inconsistencies, unrealistic forecasts and emerging schedule pressures/conflicts between workstreams.
• Ensure planning information across reporting platforms, and governance product is aligned, accurate and auditable.
• Support impact assessment, recovery and scenario-planning activities.
• Coordinate PPPT/PPD planning assurance requirements and submissions where appropriate.
• Escalate material planning or assumption concerns to the Head.
• Define repeatable planning and assurance processes to reduce reliance on manual intervention.

What you'll need to succeed

If you meet the spec and have active SC please forward me your CV

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