Manager Planning, Scheduling and Project Controls

KPMG International Cooperative; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent consulting firm is seeking a Manager for its Commercial Advisory and Assurance team in Birmingham. This role involves leading planning, scheduling, and project controls for major projects, requiring strong management and communication skills. The firm offers flexibility in working arrangements and values candidates with a background in consulting, particularly within infrastructure projects. Successful candidates will engage with high-profile clients and tackle significant challenges in the infrastructure sector.

Qualifications

• Significant post-qualification experience in planning and project controls.
• Experience in consulting or advising clients.
• Strong experience in managing teams and implementing project controls.

Responsibilities

• Apply tailored solutions for clients while managing relationships.
• Lead tasks including monitoring, reporting, scheduling, and cost control.
• Conduct risk identification and analysis for major projects.

Skills

Project controls experience

Strong problem-solving skills

Communication and presentation skills

Ability to build relationships

Proficiency in Excel

Proficiency in MS Project

Proficiency in Oracle P6

Education

Relevant professional certification (e.g., APM PMQ/PPQ; MoP; MSP; PRINCE2)

Job description

Overview

Manager, Commercial Advisory and Assurance - Planning, Scheduling and Project Controls. With 20 sites across the UK, we can potentially facilitate office work, working from home, flexible hours, and part-time options. If you have a need for flexibility, please register and discuss this with our team.

What you’ll do

As one of the senior consultants on the ground, you’ll apply your experience daily, bringing to life tailored solutions for our clients while managing important relationships. This role requires strong post-qualification planning and project controls experience, primarily in planning, scheduling and project controls for major projects and programmes. This could be as a contractor, consultant, or within a government role. Your track record should evidence:

• Strong experience in leading and managing tasks that include monitoring, reporting, scheduling, cost control, risks management, change control, opportunities for improvement and implementing project controls best practices
• Experience in a consulting environment or advising clients, either for another consultancy or in an advisory role in industry or government
• Experience in major projects and programmes, ideally in infrastructure in transport, defence, power and utilities or nuclear
• Familiarity with delivery of major projects and programmes within the UK public sector
• Strong experience of managing teams and applying project and programme controls
• Experience in the implementation of earned value management in accordance with relevant national standards
• Developing tools and reporting for Project Controls
• Risk identification and analysis
• Project and programme performance monitoring and assurance
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to build and maintain great relationships and a desire to network across our firm
• Communication and presentation skills
• A desire to learn and develop new skills within planning and project controls
• Proficiency in using Excel, MS Project and Oracle P6

Amazing extras

• Delay and scenario analysis
• Dispute advisory or expert witness experience
• Supporting the delivery of advisory services such as organisational design and governance optimisation
• Performance and efficiency improvement
• Enhancing project and programme controls
• Troubled project/programme reviews
• A relevant professional certification – e.g. APM PMQ/PPQ; MoP; MSP; PRINCE2

Base Location

London, Manchester and Birmingham. Plus network of 20 offices nationally: www.kpmg88careers.co.uk/experienced-professional/#LeBlender.OfficeLocations

About the team

KPMG's Major Projects Advisory (MPA) team works with industry-leading organisations, helping to solve some of the biggest challenges in infrastructure. As a true market leader, we work with an impressive client base across the commercial and public sectors, delivering lasting results on projects and programmes which are household names. Our Infrastructure Advisory Group provides in-depth advice on strategic, economic, financial and commercial issues driving infrastructure projects across transport, power and utilities, social infrastructure and government departments and private sector bodies in the UK and internationally. We have a diverse team with deep construction industry experience, joining one of the fastest growing areas of the firm at a time of real significance.

What you’ll be doing

This role is for an innovative professional at manager level, who can work alongside our existing team to use their lived experience of planning, scheduling and project controls in construction to solve complex problems. Managers in our team are client-facing and at the forefront of delivery. This role requires strong post-qualification experience ideally from several infrastructure-related projects and programmes, but we’ll happily consider candidates with experience in other relevant fields.