Planning Lead

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking an experienced Planning Lead to support a large-scale digital transformation programme. The role will oversee integrated planning, scheduling, and progress reporting across multiple workstreams using enterprise planning tools. This is initially a 12 month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role based in London.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and management of the integrated programme plan across all transformation workstreams.
• Maintain and track milestones, dependencies, and critical paths to ensure programme delivery alignment.
• Use Planview to manage portfolio-level planning and reporting (Practitioner level experience of Planview is essential).
• Coordinate with delivery teams using Azure DevOps for sprint and release tracking (Working level knowledge of Azure DevOps is desired).
• Produce and maintain dashboards and reports using Planview, ADO, Excel and PowerPoint for stakeholder communication.
• Provide insight and recommendations to improve forecasting, resource utilisation, and delivery confidence.
• Support governance forums with accurate, timely progress and risk information.
• Ensure planning standards, templates, and processes are consistently applied across the programme.
• Collaborate with TMO, Delivery Leads, Product Owners, and Technical Leads to maintain data integrity and schedule accuracy.
• Drive continuous improvement in planning practices and tool adoption.

• 8 years of experience in a similar role
• Planview (Practitioner level experience required)
• Azure DevOps (Working level knowledge desired)
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Dashboarding tools (Planview, ADO, Excel)

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 2,500 Employees. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.

Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.

Why join us

• Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
• Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
• Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field
• Annual leave and work-place pension