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    Programme Planner - Fen End, United Kingdom - Jaguar Land Rover

    Jaguar Land Rover
    Jaguar Land Rover Fen End, United Kingdom

    1 week ago

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    Description
    Fen End

    JLR is harnessing technology to make driving smarter, safer and cleaner. You can help create a world in which responsible, sustainable vehicles revolutionise the driving experience for generations. Our vision is to leverage the incredible potential of technology to build vehicles that not only offer a premium, all-encompassing digital experience, but that also make our customers lives better.

    The Opportunity

    JLR delivers some of the most desirable vehicles in the world. There is an opportunity to join Accessories team to be part of something exceptional. Enhancing the values of the core vehicle and providing additional options to suit the customers lifestyle

    Within Accessories produce modern, luxurious, innovative, products and services that delivers choice for our customers, added value to our core brands and increased revenue to our business.
    Although this is delivered through close cooperation with other JLR business units, we go further and deliver faster using our size and expertise.
    Vital to our delivery is a cohesive team that performs in an agile way in line with the creators code.

    You will be integral to delivery of Accessories, which all drive significant revenue within JLR. Our Strategy, Engineering and Programme Management teams collaborate with the main vehicle programmes to deliver unique, personalised features and vehicles to our customers.

    This Programme Planner role will hold responsibility for the development and programme management of projects from initial concept through to Launch. It provides un-parallel experience and development opportunity to work with multiple functions across the full Strategic, development and Launch activities. As the Programme planner you will collaboratively lead a teams to deliver projects.

    WHAT TO EXPECT

  • Responsible for the collaborative creation and successful delivery of Programmes
  • Planning to ensure programme gateways are delivered within scope and achieve to cost, timing and quality
  • Effective Risks and Issues or impediments management
  • Appropriately report issues and collaboratively manage them to timing plans
  • Maintain budget control and meet the financial targets established at programme gateways
  • Effectively chair and manage meetings with clear actions and minutes

    • Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

  • Enterprise level collaboration to ensure the wants and needs of the brands are delivered to the customers.
  • Achievement of gateways and milestones
  • Achieve cost, timing and quality amending the scope where necessary via change management
  • Robust planning to ensure activities take place at the right time in advance of milestones and gateways maintaining a clear critical path
  • Run and chair weekly programme management meetings producing clear minutes and actions
  • Support the Programme with planning activities such as chairing Timing / Planning attribute teams, leading Planning Workshops, coordinating programme content, prebuild ordering and setting up Credible Planning Governance sessions with key stakeholders.
  • Proactively monitor programme health through metrics, risks and issues and initiate corrective action where required.
  • Support the Deferral process in presenting timing changes to the Senior Management team.
  • Support the development and delivery of the VP Planning Strategy in accordance with the Cycle Plan.
  • Maintain deliverables and timing as required.
  • Maintain a positive and constructive environment ensuring all stakeholder inputs are considered to support credible decision making.
  • Support the internal and external teams with planning expertise in forums such as Escalation reviews, Group and Domain level meetings and Gateway Approval sessions.
  • Report progress of the programme at defined intervals to the Programme Director.
  • Support continuous improvement of Programme Management processes, to enable successes to be repeated and lessons to be learnt.
  • Efficiently report to management key messages and actions
  • Present clearly to forums delivering key messages and decisions / direction
  • Undertake any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested from time to time
  • Carry out Agile roles such as scrum master and Product owner

    • Key Interactions

  • Programme Management – Support the Strategy, Delivery and Launch interactions to maintain on-time programme delivery utilising the Agile toolset
  • Purchasing – reviewing the Sourcing status v commodity lead times, establish cost targets and achieve them
  • Engineering – understanding commodity timing to support the programme, establish cost targets and achieve them
  • Design – aligning the design and surfacing timing, risks and issues with engineering checkpoints and key gateways
  • Vehicle Engineering – awareness of the Virtual Series process and Verification Test plan
  • Launch & STA – Ensuring the Pre-Production launch phase is planned effectively towards a robust PSW plan and accessories are 'stock in bin'
  • MS&S – Support all pre-build and Comms activity – Parts ordering and communicate volume and pricing
  • Finance – Liaise with finance to deliver on budget, managing any risks

    • WHAT YOU WILL NEED

    Essential

  • Degree qualified or equivalent experience.
  • Conversant with Microsoft Office (particularly Excel and PowerPoint)
  • Experience of planning and project management (ideally with accredited qualification)
  • Experience of risk management & planning.
  • Experience of stakeholder alignment.
  • An effective team player, actively leads, develops and supports team members.
  • An individual with a customer first mind-set who is easy to do business with and makes people feel special, driven to deliver experiences that are personalised, transparent and dependable.
  • An individual who is results driven, demonstrates tenacity, drive and perseverance, with the ability to deliver in a complex, highly demanding environment.
  • An individual with the ability to combine a short term, pragmatic focus with longer term planning.
  • An individual who is resilient, energetic and enthusiastic, able to deliver results under pressure, whilst responding constructively to challenging new ideas and inputs.
  • An individual who is able to challenge existing thinking in a positive way whilst building credibility and trust through experience and personal style.
  • A good communicator who can deliver in a number of forums at different levels.
  • An individual who enables speed in decision making through establishing alignment, clarity, appropriate resources and sense of urgency whilst bringing others along.
  • An achiever, motivated by delivering results by establishing realistic plans and proactively driving delivery with a can do attitude.
  • Performs well under pressure and demonstrates composure.
  • Structured but with experience of working in a changing and fast paced environment.
  • Maintain overall integrity and impartiality towards the delivery of key programme milestones.