Strategic Programme Planner - Bristol, United Kingdom - Expleo

Expleo

Verified Company

Bristol, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Overview:
Expleo is a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation. We help businesses harness unrelenting technological change to successfully deliver innovations that will help them gain a competitive advantage and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe

We are seeking a highly organised and motivated Strategic Programme Planner to join our proactive and innovative team

Responsibilities:

Provide programme and portfolio level awareness to the organisation.
Senior experts in planning and planning integration of embedded software and data analytic.
Visualisation approaches and techniques outside of P6. For example using Power BI.
The solution for this will include the nearer term project portfolio as well as integrating this with the more strategic long term high level programme
Define and implement a practicable and realistic way of managing key programme dependencies and integration aspects of ~1000 P6 project plans, in order to allow programme/portfolio awareness/control.
Influencing project frameworks where needed to set mínimal useful standards to allow the business at programme and portfolio level to discharge decision making and create awareness
Delivery of a clear and wellarticulated portfolio integrated plan(s) layered through the programme and portfolio level. It will include methods of showing dependencies, programme risks and alignment/misalignment of dependencies, delivery performance, and drivers and timing for executive decision making.

Skills:

Gravitas to operate with and present to all levels of the organisation including executive.
Must be a selfstarter than can turn aims and objectives into real and implementable solutions.
Bedside manner, diplomacy, effective communication skill (oral and written) and influencing and negotiating skills to work across a broad and diverse set of stakeholders to develop technical and process/governance solutions for programme/portfolio level planning.
Natural charisma and confident and able to form productive relationships with diverse individuals.

Experience:

Although it is not the scope of the role in this instance, they need to have a solid P6 planning background that shows the ability to work with a project or programme organisation to plan.
Focuses on understanding the activities they are planning, makes effort to validate planning data from stakeholders in the project, and constructively challenge the logic of the plans to improve its veracity.
Careful thought process in doing the technical construction of plans on the content.
Experience in Microsoft project would be very beneficial.

What do I need before I apply:

Will need to work in office regularly to access IT systems at SECRET level. Based in BTC in Bristol.
Steady state 35 days per week onsite every week ( working from home is probably 1/2 days a week only.)
This role will only be achieved by face to face team working in north Bristol with line manager and immediate team
Sometime business demand will be full week. Some aspects will be on our SECRET network which can only be accessed at our south Bristol site.
Building relationships initially will only work with visits to planning stakeholders in Clyde and Plymouth.
Needs to be a UK national and already cleared at SC.

Benefits:

Collaborative working environment we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

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