PMO - Planner

Job title: PMO - Planner

Location: Basingstoke - Customer site

Target Start Date ASAP

Target End Date 31/05/2027

Recruitment Type: Contractor

Clearance Required: Active DV clearance or eligibility

Our purpose is to make the world more sustainable by building trust in society through innovation. As an PMO planner, you will deliver value for our customers by exploring new technologies within a team that values collaboration and constantly changing dynamic environment to build a better service.

Your role will involve:

The PMO Planner provides planning and scheduling expertise to support effective delivery of the programme. The role is accountable for maintaining integrated, accurate and assurance ready plans, providing clear visibility of progress, dependencies, milestones and risks, and enabling informed decision making by Programme and PMO leadership.

The PMO Planner works closely with Project Managers, Programme Managers and other PMO specialists (e.g. Finance, Risk, Change) to ensure planning standards are consistently applied and embedded across the programme lifecycle.

Planning & Scheduling:

• Develop, maintain and assure integrated project schedules in line with agreed planning standards and governance.
• Establish and manage baseline plans, including scope, milestones, dependencies and critical paths.
• Maintain alignment between master programme plans and individual project schedules.
• Ensure schedule logic is robust and supports effective impact analysis.

Progress Tracking & Reporting

• Track progress against plan, identifying variance, slippage and emerging risks.
• Produce schedule performance metrics and planning inputs for programme reporting, governance forums and customer reviews.
• Support the preparation of planning views for performance packs, dashboards and assurance activities.

Standards, Quality & Assurance

• Apply and promote planning best practice, ensuring compliance with PMO standards, contractual requirements and audit expectations.
• Support planning assurance activities, including schedule health checks and internal reviews.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of planning processes, templates and tools.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a trusted partner to Project and Programme Managers, providing planning expertise and challenge where required.
• Support recovery planning activities as needed.

Key skills and experience:

• Proven experience in a PMO planning or scheduling role within complex project or programme environments.
• Strong understanding of programme and project lifecycle planning.
• Experience maintaining integrated schedules across multiple workstreams or projects.
• High attention to detail and a strong commitment to data accuracy and governance.
• Ability to communicate planning information clearly to both technical and non technical stakeholders.
• Planning and scheduling tools (e.g. MS Project or equivalent)
• Microsoft Excel (advanced), PowerPoint, Word
• SharePoint and programme document repositories

Personal Attributes:

• Highly organised and methodical, with strong analytical capability
• Proactive, with the confidence to challenge constructively
• Collaborative and customer focused
• Professional, resilient and delivery oriented

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