Integrated Planning Lead

Job Description

Job Title: Integrated Planning Lead

Rate: £550 - £650 per day inside IR35

Location: Remote with occasional travel to client site

Essential: Live SC Clearance

Role Overview We are seeking an experienced Integrated Planning Lead to drive the development and execution of robust, standardised planning practices across multiple concurrent programmes. This role is critical in ensuring alignment, visibility, and coordination across complex delivery environments, enabling successful milestone-driven outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead integrated planning activities across multiple programmes within a complex delivery landscape
• Design and implement standardised planning frameworks, establishing consistent approaches from the ground up
• Facilitate large-scale cross-programme planning events, such as PI planning, big room planning, or equivalent forums
• Oversee programme planning cycles, ensuring alignment with key milestones and effective critical path management
• Identify, map, and actively manage cross-programme dependencies, driving timely resolution of risks and conflicts
• Operate effectively across organisational boundaries, ensuring collaboration and holding senior stakeholders accountable for planning commitments
• Embed sustainable planning disciplines and governance that continue to deliver value beyond initial implementation
• Support the integration of both agile and traditional plan-driven delivery methodologies where appropriate

Skills and Experience

• Significant experience leading integrated planning across complex, multi-programme environments
• Proven track record in designing and implementing planning frameworks from inception
• Strong understanding of planning cycles, dependency management, and milestone-driven delivery
• Experience facilitating large-scale planning events involving diverse stakeholder groups
• Demonstrated ability to influence and engage senior stakeholders across organisational silos
• Comfortable working within both agile and traditional delivery methodologies
• Experience in defence, government, or similarly regulated environments is highly desirable

Personal Attributes

• Strong leadership and facilitation skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities
• Highly organised with strong attention to detail
• Proactive, resilient, and solution-oriented mindset

Outcome The Integrated Planning Lead will play a pivotal role in driving coherence, transparency, and delivery confidence across programmes, ensuring planning practices are not only implemented effectively but sustained over the long term.

Reasonable Adjustments:

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