Planning Manager

London Gatwick; Gatwick; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Welcome bonus

Bonus scheme

Employee parking

Job summary

London Gatwick is seeking a Planning Manager to lead planning for a major investment programme valued over £150m. This role combines office-based development with three days in the office and two days remote, to support a high-performance team focused on delivering on time and to budget.

You will manage schedules, lead a planning function, monitor risks, and collaborate with cost planning and governance to drive continuous improvement across the programme.

Qualifications

• Experience planning infrastructure projects on multi-year programmes.
• Proven leadership of small teams.
• Strong communication with stakeholders to explain complex ideas.
• Commercial awareness and risk management experience.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain schedules for the full project journey, including interfaces and contract programmes.
• Lead planning teams across multiple projects and drive programme goals.
• Lead programme schedule reporting and develop dashboard metrics.
• Support risk and change processes and identify efficiencies.
• Assist cost forecasting and align cost plan with programme schedule.

Skills

Scheduling

Planning

Stakeholder comms

Team leadership

Primavera P6

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Planning Manager: Major Projects

Circa £89,000 + 5% Welcome Bonus* + £4,750 flex allowance + Up to 20% bonus + Benefits

Great journeys happen at London Gatwick. Where will your career take you? The buzz, the energy, the sheer magic of travel… You can feel it in the air all around you. Here, you'll be part of an energetic team and a vibrant community. We can help you thrive in a career that's a world away from the everyday.

This role takes an office first hybrid approach here at London Gatwick, with three days a week in the office, two days remote, managed around the needs of the business.

What is the role?

We are searching for a Planning Manager to join the world's most efficient single-runway airport. As part of a collaborative team, you'll have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the delivery of a substantial investment plan, aimed at developing and enhancing our airport infrastructure and facilities.

You'll be instrumental to our airport's future success, working closely with our Programme Manager to achieve the strategic aims and objectives of the business. Your primary focus will be on developing, implementing, and delivering effective planning and assurance processes across a programme of projects typically valued in excess of £150m.

Reporting to the Lead Planning Manager, you'll take a key role in leading the planning of projects across all stages of their lifecycle, from concept approval to delivery and closeout. Your mission is to make sure performance targets are not just met but surpassed consistently and on time.

What will you do?

• Creating and maintaining schedules for the entire project journey, including internal and external interfaces. This will include managing the control programmes from project concept to closeout, managing contract programme evaluations, assessing compensation events, conducting delay analysis and helping to drive schedule improvements through to our supply chain
• Playing a major role in leading and managing planning teams for the programme. You'll expertly apply your knowledge and skills across multiple projects, to help us achieve our strategic goals.
• Lead all programme schedule reporting, contributing to the development of programme metrics and dashboard. Lead in reporting the schedule information to the cost estimating database for Construction, ensuring that tender timescales and actual out-turn activity durations are correctly identified and classified to continuously improve the quality of the planning and estimating database.
• Assisting in trend and change processes and finding ways to be more efficient that might positively affect programme outcomes and your teams' performance.
• Support the management of the Programme/Project Risk and Opportunity Register to identify and deliver efficiencies and value the likely time consequence of each risk/opportunity.
• Support the production, and delivery to, Monthly Cost Forecasts using the cost plan, activity schedules and referencing the project/programme schedule. Support formal programme cost reviews to ensure alignment of the cost plan and programme, action and investigate deficiencies.
• Helping the GAL planning function to grow by contributing to the development of standards, managing, motivating, coaching and mentoring team members. You'll be excited about helping talented individuals reach their potential.
• Continuously developing and upholding world-class health, safety, and environmental standards across the programme and its contractors. We aim to achieve health, safety and environmental excellence.

Do you have what we're looking for?

The live environment at Gatwick requires all our teams to have a flexible and adaptable approach, with problem solving skills and an innovative outlook. You'll have the opportunity to be significantly involved in delivering the strategic objectives of projects, as well as the opportunity to take the lead of your own projects from inception to completion. In addition, this role requires:

• Previous experience planning infrastructure projects as an experienced Senior Planner or Planning Manager on multi-year programmes within the construction or infrastructure sectors working on projects/programmes typically more than £100 million.
• Previous experience leading small teams.
• Extensive experience of Primavera P6 and related commercial acumen
• Demonstrable experience in communicating with a wide range of stakeholders to explain complex or abstract ideas straightforwardly.
• Proven leadership and influencing skills, along with the ability to motivate, coach, facilitate, and create learning opportunities for others.

What's in it for you?

We value our people and reward every employee fairly with a highly competitive package, enhanced by a discretionary annual bonus, free staff parking, discounted rail travel to work, share matching scheme and more. We offer a rewarding world of flexible benefits you can tailor to the things that matter to you most. There are also plenty of opportunities for career progression, as well as training to support your personal and professional development. At London Gatwick, we're also very well connected, just 30 minutes from central London and directly linked to over 100 towns and cities. Whether you prefer to travel by cycle, electric car, or train, we aim to make your journey to work as convenient and cost-effective as possible.

Our employees tell us that working here is something special and no day is like another, where our teams do something every day that other airports only dream of. Along with a competitive salary, our employees enjoy a range of personal, health and financial benefits, including:

• 5% Welcome Bonus
• Performance-based bonus scheme
• High street shops and restaurant discounts
• Healthcare scheme
• Life and disability insurance
• Professional training to develop
• Free holiday parking
• Discounted travel to work schemes
• Free on-site parking
• Volunteer days

What it's like to work at London Gatwick?

At London Gatwick, our people are our biggest asset. We want our people to thrive and have the best experience while working with us. We know we are all at our best when we feel comfortable and included.

We are an organisation that places diversity, equity and inclusion at its heart. Our aim; to create a place where everyone belongs and has a voice, and we recognise that we all play an important role in our success.

London Gatwick supports an inclusive recruitment process, enabling you to perform at your best. Please make us aware, as part of your application, should you require any reasonable adjustments.

Please note: The Welcome Bonus is intended to support the attraction of new Construction talent to London Gatwick. As such, it is available to new external hires only and does not apply to individuals returning to employment with the business or internal transfers.