Website Brookwood Recruitment
Planning Lead – ERP, Jira, and MS Project
We are supporting a global organisation.
This is initial 12 months contract.
The daily rate is negotiable Inside IR35.
This role requires travel to London around once to twice per month.
- Develop a sophisticated planning framework aligning it with the Methodology and Deliverable Responsibility Matrix.
- Establish global planning standards, ensuring precision and consistency across multifaceted project plans and interdependent cross-Workstreams.
- Collaborate closely with Project Managers and Workstream Leads to harmonize planning and ensure their plans are being maintain to the requisite quality.
- Integrate risk assessment methodologies within the planning framework, enhancing anticipatory risk management across workstreams, refining the RAID Management approach to fully integrate management of risks and issues within plans.
- Strategically forecast resource needs across the Resource Supply/Demand plans, optimizing allocation for seamless execution across transformation endeavors.
- Define and embed performance metrics within the planning framework, facilitating continual progress tracking and informed strategic adjustments.
- Manage and maintain the high-level Programme Roadmap and Integrated Roadmap, aligning top-down strategic direction and managing the interface with bottom-up detailed scheduling.
- Manage the interface between Programme Leadership and detailed scheduling, including leading what-if scenario planning in re-planning efforts, and providing summary planning formats for Leadership and SteerCo-level review.
- Partner with Workstream Leads, E2E Leads, BPT BP Leads, Project/Programme Managers, and the Systems Integrators to coach, advise, and guide on the planning best practices.
- Manage all cross-programme interdependencies, ensuring a cohesive Integrated Programme Plan
- Facilitate cross-Workstream and cross-Project cohesion by defining requirements for and implementing a high-quality planning platform.
- Maintain flexibility for real-time adaptations, ensuring alignment with dynamic project landscapes.
- Instill stringent quality benchmarks within the framework, working with the Delivery Director to drive meticulous execution.
Skills:
- English language proficiency
- Ability to work in Matrix organization
- High degree of stress resistance/resilience
- University degree in business management or comparable course of studies. Advanced degree preferred.
- Proven record leading planning on complex, multi-year transformation programmes comprising multiple interdependent workstream and component projects
- Technical specialism in project/programme planning best practices, coupled with a deep understanding of leading toolsets, including Jira and Microsoft Project Online
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