Demand Planner jobs in United Kingdom

Location: London or Abbey Wood • Duration: Up to 31st March – likely to extend subject to funding • Rate: Market Rates (Inside IR35)

The programme planner will work with the central programme delivery team to develop and build workstream specific programme plan in full alignment with the overall integrated programme plan. This will involve working with the workstream programme directors to establish, maintain and actively use workstream plans to manage and control workstream and overall programme delivery.

• Documenting key milestones, programme and workstream dependencies, assumptions and constraints and produce all reference documentation.
• Produce weekly progress against the plan for their respective workstreams and report to the central planning team on deviations and their impact.
• Work on RAIDS with respective RAIDS managers and ensure that risks and dependencies are managed from delivery schedule angle and pro-actively highlight schedule variances.
• Produce change impact assessment from schedule and plan perspective as part of regular change control process.
• Develop, maintain, and manage plan on a page as well as detailed MSP plan and ensure alignment of planning elements within JIRA and MSP plans.
• Ensure that all planning confirms the overall objectives, scope, high level deliverables/product (including acceptance criteria) and stage gate exit criteria for the programme and workstreams.

• Experience working in complex ERP enabled transformation programmes.
• Experience working on enterprise level Oracle Fusion Cloud implementation.
• Raid Management experience required.
• Highly proficient in the use of project planning software e.g., MS Project Professional plan and proficient in agile software development and implementation tools e.g., JIRA.
• Ability to analyse complex programmes and projects and report information in a range of formats.
• Excellent communication skills, written and oral, and be able to present complex or sensitive information effectively.
• Ability to produce quality written documents.
• Ability to support teams in breaking down complex delivery into manageable work packages and activities.
• Ability to effectively lead and support teams using a range of methodologies in planning.
• Knowledge and experience in applying risk management processes and in supporting others to apply risk management methodologies is highly desirable.
• Experience of managing complex stakeholder landscape.
• Proficient in using PowerPoint, Excel, Word.
• Ability to work independently.

Candidates should hold or be willing to undergo SC Clearance.