Provide consultancy advice on planning and scheduling best practice
Facilitate workshops as well as building, analysing, and maintaining schedules on behalf of the schedule owner
Provide quality assurance across the delivery landscape in line with the chosen methodology and against approved planning standards
Ensure alignment of critical milestones aligned to strategic objectives
Provide training and coaching to our wider Project Management community where appropriate to help upskill colleagues
Advise and support clients and colleagues on planning best practice and delivery methodology
Create, review, maintain and administer Portfolio/ Programme/Project schedules
Identify and maintain dependencies across the delivery environment
Conduct analysis and assurance activities
Lead/facilitate planning workshops and training sessions
Proactively identify and progress opportunities to add value to strategic and tactical decision making
Support resource utilisation and planning analysis where appropriate

Planning and scheduling experience in transformation and/or engineering/infrastructure markets such as defence, security, government and critical national infrastructure is essential
A solid understanding of one or more project and programme management methodologies
Practical and formal experience of both waterfall and Agile planning principles and methods
Consultancy and communication skills to ensure clarity in all situations and to effectively influence and advise
A current understanding and working knowledge of the latest trends in planning practices, including one or more planning methodologies
Primavera (P6) and / or Microsoft Project and / or Jira to an advanced level (formal and/or comparable experience)
An understanding of Agile delivery tools
An analytical thinker with creative and innovative problem-solving skills
Experience or knowledge of concepts such as resourcing and resource levelling, progress measurement, earned value analysis, completion forecasting and status reporting
Demonstrable report writing and presentation skills
Ability to develop effective communication channels with key stakeholders
Work as part of a team, sharing ideas and aiming for planning excellence
Ability to deliver effective training and coaching sessions to aid adoption and maturity of planning practices

Enjoy competitive salaries
Employee rewards
Brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices
Opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise
Hybrid working culture
Flexible holiday allowances

PMO Planning Consultant

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