Lead PMO Planner

Job Description

Lead PMO PlannerMedium-sized Digital Transformation ConsultancyOffice located in Moorgate, London. Role will move into hybrid after setup of schedule.Salary: £45,000-£50,000Are you an experienced PMO Scheduler Do you have experience working with MS Project Do you have a track record of working on IT transformation projectsProvide are hiring a Lead Scheduler on behalf of a medium-sized Digital Transformation Consultancy based in London to join their Project Management team. As the PMO Lead Scheduler, you will play a crucial role in ensuring effective project planning, scheduling,and coordination using MS Project. This position requires a deep understanding of project management principles, excellent communication skills, and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.Role responsibilities

• Ability to decompose scope into a work breakdown structure. Develops maintains, and updates project schedules using Microsoft Project, ensuring alignment with project goals, timelines, and resource availability.
• Work closely with project managers to understand project requirements, dependencies, and constraints building the project schedule using a consistent template to enable standardisation of schedules across a Programme/portfolio. As a component of this implementsand enforces schedule management best practice.
• Maintain the schedule weekly whilst conducting schedule analysis to identify critical paths, bottlenecks, and areas for optimisation.
• Registers, tracks and reports on the integration of external dependencies within schedules be they project to project/programme or external e.g. third parties
• Provides data based automated weekly reporting across schedules to identify quality and performance issues using MSP macros for weekly data extracts. . E.g. Milestone performance, cross project / portfolio dependency performance.
• Coordinates with project and portfolio managers to ensure timely delivery and adherence to quality standards. Identifies potential risks to schedule delivery and and drives resolution actions.
• Ensures resource allocation is optimized across all projects through resource planning in MSP, collaborating with resource managers if required.
• Supports the PM in impacting Change Requests, modelling scenarios, and working to mitigate delays
• Monitors resource utilization and proactively addresses any scheduling conflicts or resource constraints.
• Communicates across project teams, stakeholders, and leadership to ensure a clear understanding of project timelines and deliverables.
• Conducts training sessions and workshops to enhance the project teams proficiency in Microsoft Project.
• Identifies opportunities for process improvement in project scheduling and contributes to the enhancement of PMO methodologies.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Proven experience as a project scheduler with a focus on using MS Project and automation to aid reporting.
• Proven experience in leading schedule management development, integration and reporting in a large organization.
• Strong Excel experience - Past experience of Macros is essential.
• Knowledge of business change management principles.
• Familiarity with project management tools and methodologies. Strong understanding of Project / programme management principles, methodologies and best practices. Qualifications in Prince2, PMI, APM, or PMP are strongly considered.
• Experience in scheduling across a diverse portfolio of strategic projects.
• Understands the challenges and complexities of transformation projects involving integrated deliveries.
• Understands the application of scheduling to both waterfall and agile delivery
• Knowledge of IT Project/Programme Delivery and the application of Earned Value Analysis.

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