Strategic Programme & Portfolio Planner

AtkinsRéalis; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working culture

Flexible holiday allowances

Training and professional development

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis is seeking a Consultant Programme and Project Planner in the UK. You will work with clients, suppliers and internal teams to enable benefits from digital transformation and operations.

Your role focuses on planning, scheduling and governance across complex portfolios and programmes, connecting milestones to strategic objectives and ensuring end-to-end visibility across waterfall, Agile and hybrid delivery.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable specialist knowledge in planning and scheduling within complex portfolio, programme or project environments.
• Planning should be a core specialism, not a secondary responsibility.
• Experience developing, baselining and assuring logic-linked schedules with milestones and dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist consultancy on planning, scheduling, controls and governance.
• Lead planning activities, resolve complex scheduling issues, produce high-quality outputs.
• Facilitate workshops, build and maintain credible schedules, assess integration and critical paths.
• Mentor colleagues and share knowledge across teams.
• Lead creation, baselining and assurance of integrated schedules across portfolio levels.

Skills

Planning

Scheduling

Portfolio planning

Project controls

Governance

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Jira

Agile

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Jira

Job description

AtkinsRéalis is seeking a Consultant Programme and Project Planner in the UK. You will work with clients, suppliers and internal teams to enable benefits from digital transformation and operations.

Your role focuses on planning, scheduling and governance across complex portfolios and programmes, connecting milestones to strategic objectives and ensuring end-to-end visibility across waterfall, Agile and hybrid delivery.