22nd July 2025
Technology Project Planner
Project Management
London
£75,000 - £80,000 per annum + annual discretionary bonus
Technology Project Planner
London, Docklands (Hybrid)
£75,000 – £80,000 per annum + annual discretionary bonus
On behalf of a Leading financial services organisation, I am seeking an experienced Project Planner to play a key role in supporting projects and improving the quality of plans within the Technology Project Management area.
The company operates hybrid working where you will be expected to commit to a non-negotiable 2 days a week in their London office, therefore applicants must be based within a reasonable commuting distance.
Responsibilities:
- The Project Planner will be a key role in supporting projects and improving the quality of plans within the Technology Project Management area. This role will report to the Senior Planner. Key responsibilities include:
- Creates and embeds plan governance in-line with program/project governance and reporting.
- Follows due processes and procedures to support the plan management and governance including change management and status reporting.
- Assures the quality and technical robustness of plans in line with the standard.
- Develop a set of plan reporting metrics to drive escalations and determine if go-live at risk.
- Leverages planning guidance from ePMO to support the definition of project plans and reporting.
- Contribute and own wider planning improvement initiatives.
Experience/Skills required:
- 5+ years of project project planner experience ideally within the technology space.
- Significant experience as a planner for large change programs and/or complex projects across an end-to-end project lifecycle gained within a large organisation within a regulated financial services envrionment.
- Extensive hands-on experience of maintaining and managing plans in a fast-moving organisation (waterfall, iterative and agile).
- Experience of working in a PMO with a solid understanding of project management best practice and methodology.
- Experienced in creating well-structured and good quality project documentation with excellent skills in the use of the MS Office suite of tools, Microsoft SharePoint and MS Project.
- Experience of using Microsoft Project. PPM Pro or similar tools to produce and maintain high quality project plans.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Proven ability supporting the delivery of projects in a fast paced, complex, demanding environment.
- Owns and maintains the project plan for the project/program.
- Provides planning support to PM community including Planning tools (MSP and PPM Pro) skills development as required.
- Ensures plans are set up with appropriate logic to identify a clear Critical Path.
- Drives plan reporting including variance analysis; overdue and at-risk reporting; contingency management; critical path escalations; and plan metrics to support key stakeholders, look ahead dashboards.
- Facilitates the management of internal/external plan dependencies.
- Ensures the high level delivery plan’ is maintained and reflects the plan status.
- Displays ownership of activities assigned to them and can drive ownership of plans and required improvements from key stakeholders.
- Experienced at managing stakeholders ensuring strong communication and governance is in place.
Consultant - Brendan Connolly
Telephone: 0207 392 7512
Email: brendan.connolly@spencer-rose.com
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