Project Planning Lead

Vestas; Almada; Híbrido; EUR 55.000 - 75.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Vestas is seeking a senior planning professional to join the T&O Project Planning team in Porto. The role focuses on connected planning, visibility, and reliability of One Plan across Vestas, enabling end-to-end planning with Place and digital solutions.

You will collaborate with Business Units and stakeholders to ensure aligned plans, provide coaching and training, and drive adoption of common planning practices. This hybrid position requires up to 20% travel and is based in Porto, Portugal.

Formación

• University degree in Engineering, Business Administration or a related field.
• Solid professional experience in project, program, portfolio, or integrated planning.
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies and planning practices.

Responsabilidades

• Act as a trusted planning partner for Business Units, building relationships and providing direct support to improve planning quality and effectiveness.
• Coordinate integrated planning across T&O, connecting Business Units, product and value-chain areas, PMOs, Project Excellence, Digital Solutions, and other key stakeholders to ensure alignment and visibility across plans.
• Advance Place adoption and user enablement, engaging, motivating, coaching, and supporting users to improve planning capabilities.
• Shape the next waves of Place development by staying close to Business Units, translating needs into clear requirements, and prioritizing improvements that deliver business value.
• Contribute to the evolution of Flow Agile methodologies and processes, ensuring integration with the T&O planning environment, tools, and ways of working.
• Ensure planning quality, connectivity, and reliability, supporting teams in maintaining up-to-date plans and identifying cross-organizational dependencies.

Conocimientos

Planning

Stakeholder management

Communication

Coaching

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Administration or a related field

Herramientas

SAP PPM

JIRA

Place

Descripción del empleo

Do you seek collaboration, innovation and impact?

Technology & Operations >
Product Line ONS >
Project Planning

The VTO Project Planning team supports the visibility, transparency, and reliability of One Plan across Vestas by:

Connecting value-chain areas, product areas, PMOs, T&O Project Excellence, Digital Solutions, EPMs and other key stakeholders to enable aligned and connected planning

Enabling end-to-end planning through the right planning tools, primarily place, bringing together plans, milestones, dependencies, and performance in a shared environment

Acting as a planning partner for T&O organizations through training, coaching, guidance, and user support

Promoting the adoption and continuous improvement of common planning practices, capabilities, and ways of working

Promoting transparent, collaborative, and efficient planning across T&O

Ensuring plans are connected, trustworthy, and maintained as a single source of truth, enabling informed decision-making across product lines

Responsibilities

Act as a trusted planning partner for Business Units, building close relationships, understanding their needs and challenges, and providing direct support to improve planning quality and effectiveness

Coordinate integrated planning across T&O, connecting Business Units, product and value-chain areas, PMOs, Project Excellence, Digital Solutions, and other key stakeholders to ensure alignment and visibility across plans

Advance cplace adoption and user enablement, closely engaging, motivating, coaching, and supporting users to improve their planning capabilities and get the most value from the platform and common ways of working

Shape the next waves of place development by staying close to Business Units, identifying real user needs and pain points, translating them into clear requirements, and helping prioritize improvements that deliver tangible business value

Contribute to the evolution of Flow Agile methodologies and processes, ensuring close integration and connectivity with the overall T&O planning environment, tools, and ways of working

Ensure planning quality, connectivity, and reliability, supporting teams in maintaining accurate and up-to-date plans, identifying cross-organizational dependencies, and making the planning environment a trusted source of information

Advance continuous improvement and communication of planning capabilities, developing and delivering practical guidance, training, communication materials, and best practices that help users adopt common approaches and continuously improve how they plan.

Qualifications

University degree in Engineering, Business Administration or a related field

Solid professional experience in project, program, portfolio, or integrated planning, within a complex, cross-functional organization is valuable

Solid understanding of Agile methodologies and planning practices, with the ability to connect Agile ways of working with broader project and portfolio planning

Experience with digital planning and portfolio management tools, with specific knowledge of SAP PPM, place, or JIRA considered valuable

Effective customer and business-partnering mindset, with the ability to understand Business Unit needs, build trusted relationships, and translate those needs into practical improvements

Demonstrated ability to engage, motivate, and enable users, with a practical approach to coaching, training, and supporting teams in improving their planning capabilities and adopting new tools and ways of working

Effective communication and facilitation skills, including the ability to develop clear and engaging training, guidance, and communication materials for different audiences and organizational levels.

Solid stakeholder management and collaboration skills across business and digital organizations

Ability to bridge business planning needs with technical tool development and governance

Solid communication, facilitation, and training skills

Well‑developed structured and problem‑solving capabilities with a focus on simplification and continuous improvement

Ability to implement adoption, standardization, and change across a global organization

Organized, structured, and results‑oriented mindset

Deep focus on transparency, data quality, and creating trusted planning solutions

Ability to build communities, encourage knowledge sharing, and promote best practices

Collaborative mindset and ability to work effectively in a global and diverse environment

What We Offer We offer an exciting opportunity to shape and improve connected planning across Vestas. As part of T&O Project Planning, you will work with stakeholders across the organization to enhance the visibility, transparency, and reliability of One Plan, enabled through modern planning capabilities and digital solutions, primarily place.

You will join a highly professional and collaborative environment with great opportunities for personal and professional growth. We value initiative, ownership, continuous improvement, and teamwork, while offering the chance to support a trusted, connected, and transparent planning environment across Vestas.

Additional information This is a hybrid position based in Porto, Portugal and requires up to 20% of travel per year.

We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis, therefore, early applications are encouraged.

Please note: We reserve the right to amend or withdraw this job posting at any time.

Our commitment to a fair hiring At Vestas, we evaluate all candidates solely based on their professional experience, education, and relevant skills. To support a fair recruitment process, we kindly ask that you remove any photos, dates of birth or graduation, gender pronouns, marital status, or other personal information not relevant to the role before submitting your CV/resume. Your CV/resume should focus on your professional and educational background, along with the necessary contact details (email and phone number). We train our hiring teams in inclusive evaluation and regularly review process outcomes to ensure fairness.

DEIB Statement At Vestas, we recognize the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion in driving innovation and success. We strongly encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply, particularly those who may hesitate due to their identity or feel they do not meet every criterion. As our CEO states, "Expertise and talent come in many forms, and a diverse workforce enhances our ability to think differently and solve the complex challenges of our industry". Your unique perspective is what will help us powering the solution for a sustainable, green energy future.

About Vestas Vestas is the energy industry's global partner on sustainable energy solutions. We are specialised in designing, manufacturing, installing, and servicing wind turbines, both onshore and offshore. Across the globe, we have installed more wind power than anyone else.

We consider ourselves pioneers within the industry, as we continuously aim to