[Hiring] Lead PMO Planner @Capita

Role Description

We have a great opportunity for a Portfolio/Programme Planner to join Capita Public Services – Central Government as part of our team of PMO professionals. Reporting into the Head of Portfolio Office, this role will work as part of a team of Lead Planners supporting the definition and delivery of a planning function that enables the successful delivery of large, complex transformation programmes.

Working within the Portfolio Office planning team, you will work closely with Senior Portfolio and Programme stakeholders to develop, maintain and assure integrated plans across complex programmes. The role will help ensure planning coherence, support effective governance, and enable robust monitoring and control of delivery across the portfolio.

You will help champion planning and scheduling best practice, providing assurance over plans and guidance to team members on the application of planning standards across Portfolio and Programme environments.

This role will require Security Clearance to be put in place that will need to remain valid throughout the entire duration of the role.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and assure integrated plans across complex programmes.
• Support complex programmes and portfolios in managing various levels of plans and schedules.
• Collate, analyse and challenge schedules at varying levels to create a ‘helicopter’ view for internal and external consumption.
• Quality assure schedules, coach colleagues in best practice, and maintain portfolio and programme level schedules to reflect delivery progress.
• Provide planning and schedule insight for executive-level reporting, including measurement of progress against schedule and highlighting key delivery risks, dependencies and milestones.
• Identify, capture and track dependencies, milestones, critical paths, resource constraints and risk impacts within plans, schedules and reporting.
• Facilitate planning workshops with senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Contribute to PMO maturity and continuous improvement by supporting the definition and adoption of consistent planning and scheduling frameworks at divisional level as part of the P3O Profession.

Qualifications

• Expert level experience of planning and scheduling within complex delivery environments.
• Expert-level proficiency in MS Project.
• Experience in managing complex schedules (>£5m projects) and cross-functional dependencies.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Experienced in defining planning & scheduling best practice.
• Knowledge of planning maturity, planning governance and schedule quality standards.
• Experience using planning approaches such as critical path analysis, dependency mapping and milestone management.
• Ability to coach or support colleagues in applying consistent planning disciplines.
• Experience working in a portfolio, programme or enterprise PMO environment.

Benefits

• A competitive basic salary.
• Work from home.
• 23 days’ holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave.
• The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice.
• Auto-enrolment to our company pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks…and plenty more.
• Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology.
• Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform.