Planning Consultant
- Employer
- Pareto People Ltd.
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Salary
- A competitive salary based on experience and pension contributions & holiday entitlement
- Closing date
- 14 Jul 2021
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- Clearance Level
- SC
- Sector
- Central Government, Defence, Nuclear, Public Sector, Space
- Job Type
- Permanent
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On behalf of our leading consultancy client in the UK, we are looking to recruit a Planning Consultant (Project, Programme and Portfolio Planner). The role will perform remotely.
Responsibilities
- Maintain existing project schedules and create further schedules where required that align with the requirements for the scope of work and execution policy.
- Responsibility for schedule quality, accuracy, and completeness
- Support the Project Manager providing proactive and predictive information and solutions.
- Ability to align the schedule to the risk and cost tools and work hand in hand with these functions.
- Reviewing and commenting on technical reports.
- Support of customer and stakeholders – being able to identify the stakeholders and provide relevant accurate data for their consumption.
- Adherence to the local policy and process whilst using individual and the company’s collective functional knowledge to challenge complexity and add value.
Requirements
- Proficient use of office suite of programmes
- Demonstrable working knowledge of Planning software such as Microsoft Project and Primavera planning tools.
- Awareness and/or proficiency in Schedule Risk Analysis tools.
- Experience in reporting Management Information
- Ability to obtain SC level security clearance.
- Driving Licence
Skills & Attributes
- A clear and effective communicator
- Ability to work independently on own your own initiative.
- To be a driven individual who wants to make a positive impact daily, either leading or being part of a high-performance team.
- Someone for whom collaboration and working in partnership comes naturally – brave, adaptable, and respectful.
- Can Share knowledge and work collaboratively, work to motivate those around you not just by direct leadership but by using your influence; Be a role model.
- Ba a critical thinker and problem solver. The key objective is to discover, adapt and overcome.
Desirable to have the following:
- PRINCE 2 Practitioner
- APM PPC
- APM PFQ/PMQ/PPQ
- Awareness of Agile practices
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