SAP Project Planner

• Champion consistent planning practices across all workstreams, waves, towers, and deployments
• Provide clear guidance on minimum planning standards, reporting expectations, and plan visualisation formats for different governance levels
• Own and govern the Programme’s single ‘source of truth’ integrated delivery plan, ensuring accuracy and version control
• Continuously improve planning and reporting guidelines based on lessons learned and evolving delivery requirements
• Manage formal “air traffic control” of all programme wide interdependencies, ensuring full visibility and control of critical path items
• Maintain and track key external dependencies affecting overall programme timelines
• Assess and assure downstream dependency management across projects and programmes that influence the integrated critical path
• Conduct critical path analysis, including progress vs. plan and risk assessments, escalating issues to delivery leadership
• Assess health, completeness, and compliance of individual wave, tower, and project plans
• Lead weekly planning governance reviews for all critical path Microsoft Project plans (Levels 3 and 4)
• Ensure accuracy and integrity of Level 0 (Roadmap) and Level 1 (Wave) plans
• Integrate dependencies into the end to end Level 1+ Integrated Delivery Plan
• Provide planning, dependency, milestone, and progress insights into relevant governance forums
• Liaise with the Transformation Governance Office, addressing planning queries and ensuring alignment with programme governance frameworks
• Build strong, trusted relationships with senior internal stakeholders (including C suite and direct reports) and external vendors

• Proven experience governing and managing critical interdependencies across multiple projects or programmes with shared delivery outcomes
• Demonstrable expertise managing complex plans with internal and external portfolio dependencies
• Strong understanding of the full end to end IT programme lifecycle, across Waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Prior experience operating in global, fast paced FTSE 250 scale environments
• Successful senior stakeholder engagement up to CIO level
• Expert proficiency in Microsoft Project and enterprise planning tools such as PlanView and Jira
• Experience creating dependency visualisations (e.g., tube maps)
• Rapid learner able to quickly understand complex programme structures
• Highly organised with exceptional attention to detail
• Confident in constructively challenging stakeholders to uphold planning integrity
• Self starter able to work proactively and independently
• Comfortable handling sensitive information

Experience supporting or remediating in flight programmes requiring strengthened planning discipline