Programme Planner
Pay rate : £500-£520 per day inside IR35
Location: Hampshire
1. Job Description Summary
We are seeking a Programme Planner to create, maintain, and control integrated programme schedules that provide delivery teams with a clear, accurate, and trusted view of progress. You will use evidence-based planning to establish a single source of truth for milestones, dependencies, risks, and delivery confidence. The Programme Planner ensures alignment across projects and enables effective decision-making by maintaining integrated schedules that reflect true programme status.
2. Project
Supplier personnel will deliver services on a Time and Materials basis for approximately 3 months to support programme planning activities for the account.
3. Services
- Develop and maintain programme and project schedules using standard planning tools.
- Align milestones and deliverables with contractual requirements and ensure consistency across the programme.
- Track progress, update plans, and produce reporting packs, dashboards, and schedule insights.
- Manage stage gates, baselines, and change control processes in line with governance standards.
- Facilitate planning workshops and work closely with project teams, PMO, and senior stakeholders.
- Identify and manage schedule risks, issues, and dependencies across workstreams.
- Support continuous improvement in planning processes, tools, and reporting.
4. Experience Required
- Experience in programme or portfolio planning within complex, multi-project environments.
- Strong proficiency in planning tools such as MS Project, Jira, Power BI, and Excel.
- Knowledge of project and programme methodologies including MSP, PRINCE2, and Agile.
- Excellent communication skills, strong analytical ability, and high attention to detail.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively in a collaborative environment.
- Relevant professional project/programme management certifications.
- Experience working on complex programmes within BPO contract environments.
- Experience within enterprise PMO environments and/or automated reporting frameworks.
- Familiarity with Agile planning methods.
5. Background and Screening Checks Requirements
All candidates must successfully complete the following checks:
- Criminal History Check: Required (covering the last 5 years)
- Employment Verification: Required (covering the last 5 years)
- Education Verification: Required
- National ID Verification: Required