Project Planner

About the job you're considering

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Project Management Team supporting the Cloud and Infrastructure business in the UK. As part of the Engagement Management Community, you’ll be leading planning sessions and creating detailed project plans for the delivery of technology enabled transformation projects across many sectors and environments, including our ever-growing Cyber practise.

Hybrid working

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including: identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service).

Your role

We’ll give you access to the training and support needed to continue developing as a Project Planner and grow your career. You’ll have a hugely positive impact in this role and will be responsible for all aspects of project planning from.

• Outlining the scope of projects against contracts
• Creating project plans using MSP
• Identifying and evaluating risks
• Ensuring that the Project Management team with comprehensive project data to help them deliver more effectively.
• Acting as a Subject Matter Expert in Project Planning and Microsoft Project
• Providing mentoring and advice to Project Managers and PMO on the subject of Project Planning.

Disability Confident Employer

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who: Declare they have a disability, and Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Your skills and experience

You’ll be driven and committed with a strong team ethic plus a passion for technology and its power to transform the way organisations work and behave. Skills and Experience

• Significant demonstratable experience using planning software such as Microsoft Project
• Build plans to support complex Projects and Programmes through Sales/Bids and Delivery and maintain and track activities on complex Project and Programme through the delivery lifecycle.
• Be able to create a plan(s) that contain tasks, milestones, Phases, Summary tasks and be able to outline level all the previous mentioned items.
• Be able to create a Master Plan that contains constituent project plans that are linked dynamically.
• Be able to identify key deliverables and dependencies
• Be able to customise a plan using filters, views and groups to assist delivery.
• Be able to create visuals based on the plan to show 1 page views.
• Lead Planning sessions and identification and design of appropriate work breakdown structures.
• Promote Planning Best Practice standards on all engagements
• Scenario Planning, Critical Path Analysis, Milestone Reporting, Inter-dependency tracking and impact analysis.
• Promote a standard approach to planning using templates and best practices.
• Produce required resource profiles from Microsoft Project to support resource onboarding and tracking.
• Peer review of existing plans against standards and best practice and provide guidance to colleagues on planning and use of Microsoft Project and assist Engagement Managers in risk identification.
• Confidence and gravitas in front of clients, project team and 3rd parties and experience of preparing and presenting project reports for internal and external stakeholders.

Your security clearance

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including: identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service). To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements. Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality. Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

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