Job Title: Programme Planner
Location: Havant
Duration:6 months
Work Model: 2-3 days onsite
Description:
Key Responsibilities
Planning & Scheduling
1. Develop, own, and maintain the integrated master schedule covering incumbent supplier exit plans, new contract supplier transition plans, and client's internal readiness activities.
2. Break down complex multi supplier scope into clear work packages, milestones, and dependencies.
3. Map cross party obligations, commercial dependencies, contractual triggers, and regulatory constraints.
4. Maintain schedule baselines and track any variance, slippage, or critical path shifts.
5. Support scenario planning (., staged vs. fixed commercial switchover dates, alternative transition routes).
6. Ensure that planning reflects regulated operating constraints and commercial commitments.
Transition Readiness & Coordination
7. Collaborate with incumbent and new suppliers to validate activity durations, resource expectations, and sequencing.
8. Work with Client technical and operational teams to confirm internal dependencies, readiness criteria, and hand-offs.
9. Facilitate multi-stakeholder planning workshops to align timelines, identify potential conflicts, and confirm ownership.
10. Support cutover planning, contingency planning, fall-back strategies, and readiness reviews.
11. Ensure the IMS reflects current supplier delivery plans and contractual boundaries.
Monitoring & Reporting
12. Manage daily schedule updates, ensuring accuracy of progress, actuals, and forecast impacts across all parties.
13. Perform critical path analysis, highlight broken or at-risk dependencies, and escalate impacts early.
14. Produce regular dashboards, timelines, and exception reports for programme leadership and senior stakeholders.
15. Provide clear insight and challenge where supplier or internal slippage threatens key commercial or regulatory dates.
16. Maintain high-quality, audit-ready schedule reporting consistent with regulated industry expectations.
Governance & Assurance
17. Ensure all schedules comply with Compass PMO standards, reporting cycles, audit requirements, and governance forums.
18. Document planning assumptions, constraints, and supplier obligations.
19. Support commercial checkpoints, stage-gates, assurance reviews, and transition readiness assessments.
20. Maintain RAID artefacts related to schedule risks, ensuring linkages into the IMS and programme reporting.
Stakeholder Management
21. Work closely with Group IT Services, the seven business units, incumbent suppliers, new supplier teams, service transition, and operations.
22. Communicate timelines, impacts, and risks clearly across both technical and senior stakeholder groups.
23. Manage competing priorities across multiple delivery organisations, ensuring alignment and transparency.
24. Coordinate cross-team dependencies, particularly where exit and transition plans interact with internal readiness activities.
25. Build trusted relationships with PMs, architects, commercial teams, and supplier leads to drive proactive scheduling discipline.
Skills & Experience
Essential
26. Proven experience as a Project Planner/Scheduler in large scale IT transformation or multi supplier transition programmes.
27. Strong proficiency with planning tools such as MS Project, Project Online, or Primavera P6.
28. Experience managing schedules across multiple suppliers, including exit and transition planning.
29. Strong understanding of service transition, cutover planning, dependency mapping, and readiness gating.
30. Ability to interpret complex technical and commercial information and translate it into actionable plans.
31. Excellent communication and stakeholder management, including senior leaders.
32. Ability to work proactively in fast-moving, high pressure environments with competing priorities.
33. Demonstrable ability to challenge constructively and highlight risks early.
Desirable
34. Experience in regulated industries (energy, utilities, financial services).
35. Familiarity with IT outsource contracts, service models, or commercial transition triggers.
36. Exposure to ITIL, service transition, SIAM, or large-scale multi-supplier operating models.
37. Understanding of Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery environments.
38. 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.