Beschreibung
We are currently in need of an experienced Programme Planning Manager to support our client in Frankfurt.Main Activities and Responsibilites
The planning manager is responsible for the programme’s roadmap and sub-ordinated programme plans. In this role, he/she develops, maintains and adjusts schedules and ensures alignment with budget and resource planning. He/she takes responsibilty for tracking and reporting progress and programme status.
Key tasks include:
Planning
- Develop, maintain and adapt the programme roadmap and sub-schedules (high level plans, medium level plans)
- Identify programme milestones, decision points, cross-project dependencies and the critical paths and reflect these in the programme schedule
- Establish the planning approach and standards on programme level, in accordance with company standards
- Coordinate project estimation and planning activities across the programme
- Support project managers in aligning low level plans to medium and high level plans
- Ensure alignment with programme resource planning
- Identify and assess risk in the programme roadmap
- Preferred: Backup and work with the ‘Programme HR Manager’ (including e.g.: consolidation of resource demands, resource planning, acquisition and reporting)
- Preferred: Perform and support with generic programme office tasks, such as Planning and/or Documentation / Reporting
Progress Monitoring & Control
- Monitor progress against plan on programme level
- Track and get involved in project issues as they relate to project schedules
- Develop and deliver progress and status reporting for programme management and various stakeholder groups
- Communicate and present programme roadmap and sub-schedules to stakeholders
- Facilitate regular schedule reviews
Requirements
Education, Work Experience
- Minimum 8 years of professional experience
- Minimum of 3 years in a multi-project/programme planning function in large scale transformation programmes, preferably with an end-to-end software implementation focus
- Preferred: project mangement certification
Functional
Experience with
- Development, maintenance and updating of complex and integrated master schedules (high level, medium level)
- Use and adaption of alternative project estimation techniques
- Schedule development in traditional (e.g. waterfall) and modern (agile) project environments
- Development of programme roadmaps, preferrably in a large organisational transformations
- Set-up, implementation and execution of programm-wide progress tracking and reporting (high level, medium level)
- Preferred: experience of industry or platform specific project delivery methods (e.g. ASAP from SAP)
Technical
- Very good skills in MS Excel, PowerPoint and Word; Visio preferred
- Excellent Project Management toll knowledge of MS Project, preferably with Microsoft Project Blue Belt certification (MS Project 2010 or higher) and Atlassian stack
- Experience with agile project methodologies
Languages
- German: fluent (min. competence level C1 CEFR)
- English: fluent (min. competence level C1 CEFR)
Personal
- Strong organisational capabilities
- Focused and effective in problem solving
- Strong social competence and communicative skills
- Self-motivated, ability to pick up things quickly
- Agile mindset
- Ability and willingness to support changing needs during programme lifecycle
- Constructive and pro-active attitude in working with other programme governance roles, project managers and line management
Start: Mai 2017
Duration: 9 MM++
Location: Frankfurt / Main
Project: #2628
Are you interested and currently available?
Then please feel free to contact us anytime.
Kind regards,
Isabel Single
Recruiting Manager
Constaff GmbH
Langer Anger 3
D - 69115 Heidelberg
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http://www.constaff.com