Senior Planner

Linesight; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global project management consultancy is seeking a Senior Planner in the Pharmaceutical Sector. This role involves developing comprehensive project schedules, leading meetings, and managing a high-performing team. Candidates should have extensive experience in construction project planning, proficiency in Primavera P6, and exceptional communication skills. The position offers an agile environment with opportunities to impact major projects and contribute to a sustainable built environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in construction project planning and scheduling.
• Proficiency in using Primavera P6 to build, manage, and analyze project schedules.
• Confidence leading meetings with effective facilitation skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed, end-to-end project schedules using critical path methodology.
• Lead and facilitate meetings with clients and suppliers to discuss timelines.
• Deliver regular progress reports to stakeholders, highlighting variances.

Skills

Construction project planning

Primavera P6

Verbal and written communication

Leading meetings

Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA)

Earned Value Management (EVM)

Education

Degree in Project Management, Construction, Engineering, or related field

Job description

Overview

As a Senior Planner (Pharmaceutical Sector) at Linesight you will play a key role across the business, working in an agile and collaborative environment. You’ll serve as the primary point of contact for the Planning & Scheduling service line within your assigned Division of Responsibility. Acting as a representative of Linesight across all regional business activity, you will bring technical expertise, leadership, and a commitment to excellence. This role also involves leading and managing a high-performing team.

The Opportunity

In this role you will:

• Enjoy freedom in managing your own priorities, deadlines, and client engagements.
• Develop detailed, end-to-end project schedules using critical path methodology, covering full project scope, milestones, and timelines.
• Apply Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) methodology to define roles, responsibilities, and deliverables.
• Align all scheduling with the project execution plan, contracting, procurement, and control strategies.
• Establish a robust method for schedule baselining and manage ongoing updates.
• Maintain a fully integrated project schedule viewable at multiple levels of detail and abstraction.
• Lead and facilitate meetings with both clients and suppliers to discuss timelines, progress, and dependencies.
• Negotiate and resolve interdisciplinary and inter-party schedule conflicts to achieve optimal outcomes for the client.
• Deliver regular progress reports to stakeholders, highlighting variances, risks, and mitigation strategies.
• Review and validate supplier and third-party schedules, ensuring alignment with industry best practices.
• Apply working knowledge of Earned Value Management (EVM) to support integrated schedule and cost performance tracking, when required.
• Experience of CQV process is required for some projects.

We would love to hear from you if you have:

• Extensive experience in construction project planning and scheduling.
• Proficiency in using Primavera P6 to build, manage, and analyse project schedules.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills and can convey complex schedule data in a clear, concise, and persuasive manner.
• Confidence leading meetings and are able to command attention, facilitate productive discussions, and drive decisions.
• Demonstratable experience with Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA), including the ability to interpret and clearly communicate findings to stakeholders.
• Excellent technical understanding of planning processes in complex, high-value construction projects.

• A degree or equivalent experience in Project Management, Construction, Engineering, or a related field.

All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required

About us

Linesight isa highly successfulglobal project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You seewe’renot like the others.We’redifferent. Unique.It’sour fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment.We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team!

Diversity,inclusionand accessibility

Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability areprovidedreasonable accommodation toparticipatein the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If yourequireassistanceor accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you!