Beschreibung
Task: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; 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
Requirements (Must have):
- 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
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: MS Project, preferably with Microsoft Project Blue Belt certification (MS Project 2010 or higher); Atlassian stack
- Experience with agile project methodologies
Languages
- German: fluent
- English: fluent
Personal
- Strong organisational capabilities
- Focused and effective in problem solving
- Strong social competence and communicative skills
- Self-motivated, ability to pick up things quickly
- Ability and willingness to support changing needs during programme lifecycle
- Constructive and pro-active attitude in working with other programme governance roles, project managers
Environment/Miscellaneous:
Your Contact Person:
Liesa Schmidt - Senior Recruiter
Telefon - Mobil
Beginn: 08.05.2017
Dauer: 31.12.2017
Branche: Luft- und Raumfahrt