Planning Manager

Your role

As a Planning Manager, you will provide leadership, assurance and strategic direction across planning activities for complex programmes and multidisciplinary teams. You will:

• Lead and manage planning teams, providing coaching, direction and quality assurance across all scheduling outputs.
• Develop the overall planning strategy for programmes, including schedule structure, governance, reporting frameworks and integration requirements.
• Oversee development and maintenance of fully integrated project and programme schedules, ensuring robust logic, sequencing, critical path and change control.
• Provide authoritative schedule analysis, including scenario modelling, critical path evaluations, impact assessments and mitigation strategies for senior stakeholders.
• Lead schedule‑related elements of performance measurement, including Earned Value Management, trend analysis and schedule‑cost‑risk integration.
• Ensure effective baseline management and alignment with contractual and governance requirements.
• Provide leadership in planning reporting, producing clear, consistent and insightful status updates and narratives for clients and senior leadership.
• Build strong client and stakeholder relationships, representing the Planning Function at senior level and influencing strategic outcomes.
• Drive continuous improvement, standardisation and best practice across planning processes, tools and methodologies.
• Oversee compliance with relevant contract requirements (NEC, JCT, FIDIC etc.) and ensure planning obligations are met.
• Support bid and work‑winning activities, defining planning methodologies, estimating schedule requirements and presenting planning approaches.
• Champion the development of capability across the planning community and contribute to the growth of our service offering.