Work Planning Project Manager

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Job Title: Work Planning Project Manager

Location: Warwick Hybrid/Remote

Contract Type: 6 months

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Work Planning Project Manager to play a pivotal role in a major planning transformation programme. This position will act as the delivery engine behind the programme, ensuring strategic objectives are translated into executable plans and delivered effectively across multiple workstreams.

Working closely with the Programme Lead, you will take ownership of programme planning, mobilisation, governance, stakeholder coordination, and delivery tracking. The role requires a highly organised and proactive professional who can drive accountability, maintain momentum, and ensure successful delivery in a complex transformation environment.

Key Responsibilities

Programme Planning

• Develop, maintain, and manage integrated programme plans across multiple workstreams.
• Translate strategic objectives into actionable delivery plans and work packages.
• Define milestones, dependencies, critical paths, and key delivery outcomes.
• Coordinate activities across teams to ensure alignment and successful execution.
• Develop delivery approaches aligned with Lean Portfolio Management and SAFe Agile principles.
• Maintain programme roadmaps and implementation plans.

Delivery Management

• Monitor progress against agreed commitments, milestones, and deliverables.
• Identify risks, issues, dependencies, and potential delivery challenges.
• Drive actions through to completion by proactively engaging stakeholders.
• Hold workstream leads accountable for agreed actions and commitments.
• Escalate delivery concerns where appropriate and facilitate timely resolution.
• Ensure delivery remains focused on achieving measurable business outcomes.

Governance and Reporting

• Coordinate programme governance activities and forums.
• Organise steering committees, working groups, and leadership review meetings.
• Maintain RAID logs and ensure effective management of risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
• Track actions, decisions, and commitments through to completion.
• Prepare concise, high-quality reporting materials for senior leadership and executive stakeholders.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as a central coordination point across the programme.
• Build strong working relationships with senior stakeholders, project teams, and delivery leads.
• Facilitate collaboration and alignment across functions and departments.
• Manage interdependencies across projects and initiatives.
• Influence stakeholders constructively to drive delivery and accountability.

Transformation Delivery

• Support the mobilisation and implementation of pilots, experiments, and improvement initiatives.
• Coordinate readiness and implementation activities.
• Ensure outputs from workshops, discovery sessions, and design activities are translated into action.
• Drive the execution of agreed transformation initiatives and process improvements.

Benefits Realisation

• Monitor and track programme outcomes, benefits, and value delivery.
• Support the development of business cases and benefits tracking frameworks.
• Ensure delivery activities remain aligned to strategic objectives and measurable outcomes.
• Provide visibility of programme performance and achievement against transformation goals.

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience delivering complex programmes and projects.
• Strong planning, scheduling, and organisational skills.
• Experience using Jira and Microsoft 365 Planner.
• Proven ability to manage and influence stakeholders at multiple levels.
• Experience coordinating multiple workstreams within a transformation or change environment.
• Strong experience maintaining integrated plans, RAID logs, and governance processes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Confidence in constructively challenging stakeholders to drive accountability and results.
• Exceptional attention to detail and follow-through.

Desirable

• Experience supporting business transformation programmes.
• Experience within utilities, infrastructure, engineering, or large-scale project environments.
• Experience operating within matrix organisations.
• Change management and adoption experience.
• Knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Familiarity with Lean Portfolio Management and SAFe frameworks.

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