Job Description
Job Title: Programme PlannerLocation: HavantDuration:6 monthsWork Model: 2-3 days onsiteDescription:
Key Responsibilities
Planning & Scheduling
* Develop, own, and maintain the integrated master schedule covering incumbent supplier exit plans, new contract supplier transition plans, and client's internal readiness activities.
* Break down complex multi supplier scope into clear work packages, milestones, and dependencies.
* Map cross party obligations, commercial dependencies, contractual triggers, and regulatory constraints.
* Maintain schedule baselines and track any variance, slippage, or critical path shifts.
* Support scenario planning (e.g., staged vs. fixed commercial switchover dates, alternative transition routes).
* Ensure that planning reflects regulated operating constraints and commercial commitments.
Transition Readiness & Coordination
* Collaborate with incumbent and new suppliers to validate activity durations, resource expectations, and sequencing.
* Work with Client technical and operational teams to confirm internal dependencies, readiness criteria, and hand-offs.
* Facilitate multi-stakeholder planning workshops to align timelines, identify potential conflicts, and confirm ownership.
* Support cutover planning, contingency planning, fall-back strategies, and readiness reviews.
* Ensure the IMS reflects current supplier delivery plans and contractual boundaries.
Monitoring & Reporting
* Manage daily schedule updates, ensuring accuracy of progress, actuals, and forecast impacts across all parties.
* Perform critical path analysis, highlight broken or at-risk dependencies, and escalate impacts early.
* Produce regular dashboards, timelines, and exception reports for programme leadership and senior stakeholders.
* Provide clear insight and challenge where supplier or internal slippage threatens key commercial or regulatory dates.
* Maintain high-quality, audit-ready schedule reporting consistent with regulated industry expectations.
Governance & Assurance
* Ensure all schedules comply with Compass PMO standards, reporting cycles, audit requirements, and governance forums.
* Document planning assumptions, constraints, and supplier obligations.
* Support commercial checkpoints, stage-gates, assurance reviews, and transition readiness assessments.
* Maintain RAID artefacts related to schedule risks, ensuring linkages into the IMS and programme reporting.
Stakeholder Management
* Work closely with Group IT Services, the seven business units, incumbent suppliers, new supplier teams, service transition, and operations.
* Communicate timelines, impacts, and risks clearly across both technical and senior stakeholder groups.
* Manage competing priorities across multiple delivery organisations, ensuring alignment and transparency.
* Coordinate cross-team dependencies, particularly where exit and transition plans interact with internal readiness activities.
* Build trusted relationships with PMs, architects, commercial teams, and supplier leads to drive proactive scheduling discipline.
Skills & Experience
Essential
* Proven experience as a Project Planner/Scheduler in large scale IT transformation or multi supplier transition programmes.
* Strong proficiency with planning tools such as MS Project, Project Online, or Primavera P6.
* Experience managing schedules across multiple suppliers, including exit and transition planning.
* Strong understanding of service transition, cutover planning, dependency mapping, and readiness gating.
* Ability to interpret complex technical and commercial information and translate it into actionable plans.
* Excellent communication and stakeholder management, including senior leaders.
* Ability to work proactively in fast-moving, high pressure environments with competing priorities.
* Demonstrable ability to challenge constructively and highlight risks early.
Desirable
* Experience in regulated industries (energy, utilities, financial services).
* Familiarity with IT outsource contracts, service models, or commercial transition triggers.
* Exposure to ITIL, service transition, SIAM, or large-scale multi-supplier operating models.
* Understanding of Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery environments.
* Professional planning or project management certifications beneficial (APM, PMI-SP, PRINCE2)
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.