Project Planning Manager

cw; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Cushman & Wakefield in India is seeking a Project Planning Manager to lead planning, scheduling, controls, and performance management for large-scale building projects. You will shape integrated schedules, baselines, and recovery programs to ensure timely delivery.

The role requires extensive experience with Primavera P6 and MS Project, strong leadership, and ability to coordinate multi-disciplinary teams across construction, engineering, procurement, and site operations to drive project success.

Qualifications

• 12–18 years of experience in project planning and controls for large-scale building construction projects.
• Expertise in Primavera P6 and MS Project.
• Experience on institutional projects such as universities, schools, hospitals, or airports.
• Strong understanding of project lifecycle, delay analysis, risk management, and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage integrated project schedules and baselines for large building projects.
• Monitor progress, critical paths, milestones, and performance metrics.
• Lead cost control, forecasting, cash flow, risk and change management.
• Prepare dashboards, MIS reports, and progress reviews for senior management and clients.
• Coordinate with construction, engineering, procurement, commercial, and site teams to drive performance.

Skills

Primavera P6

MS Project

Project scheduling

Resource planning

Cost control

Earned Value Management (EVM)

Progress measurement

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Team management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Job Title

Project Planning Manager

Job Description Summary

Lead the planning, scheduling, project controls, and performance management functions for large-scale building construction projects. The role is responsible for ensuring effective project monitoring, forecasting, risk management, progress tracking, and timely project delivery through robust planning and controls processes.

About the Role:

• Develop and manage integrated project schedules, resource-loaded plans, project baselines, and recovery programs for large building construction projects.
• Monitor project progress, critical paths, milestones, productivity, earned value, and performance metrics, ensuring alignment with project objectives.
• Lead cost control, forecasting, cash flow monitoring, risk analysis, delay analysis, and change management processes.
• Prepare and present project dashboards, MIS reports, executive summaries, and progress reviews for senior management and clients.
• Coordinate with construction, engineering, procurement, commercial, and site teams to drive project performance and timely project completion.

About You:

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering with 12-18 years of experience in project planning and controls for large-scale building construction projects.
• Strong expertise in Primavera P6, MS Project, project scheduling, resource planning, cost control, earned value management (EVM), and progress measurement systems.
• Proven experience working on institutional projects such as university campuses, schools, colleges, hospitals, commercial complexes, airports, or large mixed-use developments.
• Strong understanding of project lifecycle management, delay analysis, risk management, project reporting, and stakeholder management.
• Excellent analytical, communication, leadership, and team management skills with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders and project teams.

Why Join Cushman & Wakefield?

As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop and live, working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from:

• Being part of a growing global company.
• Career development and promote-from-within culture.
• An organization committed to Diversity and Inclusion.

We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment. We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion-from-within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent.

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That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.

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