Senior Planning Manager - SMR

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and scheduling function across major programmes, portfolios, or business areas.
• Establish and maintain integrated programme schedules, planning governance, and performance management frameworks.
• Provide strategic schedule leadership and oversight to support programme delivery and organisational objectives.
• Ensure planning standards, methodologies, processes, and controls are consistently applied across all projects and programmes.
• Deliver high-quality schedule analysis, forecasting, critical path assessment, and performance reporting to senior leadership.
• Lead the identification and management of schedule risks, opportunities, constraints, and interdependencies.
• Support executive decision-making through scenario modelling, schedule optimisation, and strategic planning recommendations.
• Act as the senior planning authority for programme reviews, governance forums, and stakeholder engagements.
• Collaborate with Project Controls, Risk, Cost, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Delivery teams to ensure integrated project performance management.
• Assess and manage the schedule impacts of change, ensuring forecasts remain accurate and aligned with programme objectives.
• Lead, mentor, and develop planning teams, creating a culture of continuous improvement and professional excellence.
• Drive improvements in planning capability, tools, systems, and organisational maturity.

Key Attributes

• Extensive experience in project planning, scheduling, and project controls leadership.
• Strong strategic thinking and ability to manage planning across large, complex programmes and portfolios.
• Excellent leadership, coaching, and team development capability.
• Advanced analytical skills with the ability to translate complex data into actionable business insights.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with experience engaging executive and director-level audiences.
• Ability to influence decision-making and drive delivery performance across multidisciplinary teams.
• Deep understanding of programme governance, risk management, change control, and integrated project controls.
• Experience within major engineering, infrastructure, energy, nuclear, defence, or other highly regulated sectors.

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