Senior Planning Manager in London

Location: London

Salary: Hidden

Recruiter: Mace

Date Advertised: 2024-06-28

The opportunity - Senior Project Planner (P6) - London and South East

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfil all of the criteria below, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organization. We are also open to discussing part time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role.

Project: Mace Consult Central Government team to lead key projects across our MoJ account. We have an exciting pipeline of work and the successful candidate will be responsible for delivery at all project stages, ensuring relevant stakeholders and professional team members are engaged throughout. We are looking to grow our business by bringing in passionate individuals who will see challenges as opportunities to improve, innovate and exceed expectations. The Central Government sector is responsible for developing our business across MoJ vast estate. Our multidisciplinary service offer across the built environment is comprehensive. Collaborating with working practices across our business gives us the capability and capacity for wide-ranging opportunities, from transformative business change to delivery of estate rationalisation programmes.

The purpose of the role is to support project managers in the delivery of projects by providing high level planning service for the preparation of project plans, producing baseline scheduled tasks, resource profiles and financial models. The successful candidate will be involved in improving the consistency, predictability and efficiency of the programme / project delivery capability and provides leadership in best practices and is highly customer-focused - outward and upward and that these are consistent with customer expectations.

Your responsibilities will include: 

  • Directing application of specific planning/scheduling methods, techniques and tools.
  • Providing good working knowledge of planning/scheduling, EVM, project controls and QSRA methodologies
  • Supporting on complex requirements.
  • Being able to manage planning/scheduling delivery of medium/high complexity projects/programmes.
  • Being able to provide effective & timely advice to clients.
  • Understanding data management.
  • Influencing client and other stakeholders to accept proposals and recommendations.
  • Creating and delivering persuasive presentations to large audiences.

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