Technical Planning Manager

Role Title: Technical Planning Manager
Location: Sheffield (Hybrid- 3 days in office mandatory)
Start Date: ASAP
3 Months
-495

The Technical Planning Manager is responsible for managing a large complex plan to urgent timescales, working as part of a large programme team. No candidates will be considered to be put forward unless they have proven experience of creating and managing plans of more than 10k rows with a high number of dependencies in Microsoft Project.

Essential Skills:

• Proven track record of managing the plan for large complex projects/programmes and ensuring that the plan stays on schedule working with numerous stakeholders.
• Accountability for plan quality. Very strong attention to detail required.
• Confident and assertive to hold other managers accountable for delivery to plan.
• Strong planning and organisation skills.
• Strong dependency management.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Project.
• Self-motivated and able to work without supervision.
• Good understanding of technical language and solutions (sufficient level for managing a technical plan).
• Positive and proactive team player working as part of a large programme.

Desirable skills:

• Experience of working with global teams.
• Experience of PAM tools.