Microsoft Planner SME
Microsoft Project Planner SME
Market rate
Contract - 1 month
Remote working
Start Date: ASAP
We are looking for a Microsoft Project Planner SME to support a live programme by consolidating multiple existing plans into a single, accurate, and baseline-ready view. This is not a greenfield role—you will be working with plans already in place, improving quality, strengthening dependencies, and ensuring a clear, realistic path to completion.
Key Responsibilities
Market rate
Contract - 1 month
Remote working
Start Date: ASAP
We are looking for a Microsoft Project Planner SME to support a live programme by consolidating multiple existing plans into a single, accurate, and baseline-ready view. This is not a greenfield role—you will be working with plans already in place, improving quality, strengthening dependencies, and ensuring a clear, realistic path to completion.
Key Responsibilities
- Consolidate external partner and internal plans into a single MS Project schedule
- Define and validate the critical path, dependencies, and milestones
- Challenge and validate updates from workstream leads, ensuring impacts on timelines are understood
- Identify planning gaps, inconsistencies, and risks, and address them proactively
- Ensure plans are accurate, current, and baseline-ready
- Engage with delivery teams to extract key information and clarify assumptions
- Provide clear, concise updates and insights back to the programme team
- Strong expertise in Microsoft Project (essential)
- Proven experience managing and improving complex programme plans
- Ability to analyse dependencies and understand impact of schedule changes
- Confident in challenging stakeholders and driving accountability
- Excellent communication skills—able to extract information and present key messages clearly
- Ability to hit the ground running and deliver value quickly
- Fully remote with occasional in-person sessions
- Immediate start required
- Fast-paced environment requiring proactive, hands-on delivery