The Planning Manager is responsible for managing the assigned project level monitoring, control, scheduling activities. He/she develops the capability and supervises the performance for all program planning / scheduling development, analysis, reporting and progress evaluation

• Creating Baseline cost and resource loaded schedules from first principles using Primavera P6
• Reporting on the progress of the schedules using reporting practices such as Earned Value techniques
• Presenting Schedule updates to the management team, and preparing visual presentations of the schedule
• Reporting on project progress, KPIs monitoring and PP presentations updates for reporting.
• Presenting solutions to Schedule slippages to the management team
• Assist the wider project team in Project Management duties – this could be in the form of preparing visual reports or presentations or chasing actions from the wider stakeholders.
• Assist with the completion of Client Ad-Hoc Requests
• Coordinate and liaise with strategic partners to incorporate schedule updates to master schedule.
• Auditing schedule received from strategic partners, within the required time frame to avoid any reporting or schedule discrepancies.
• Help in establishing business cases timelines, taking into consideration various inputs for client, strategic consultants and advisors.
• Presenting the schedule in a visually friendly manner and producing necessary diagrams to accommodate the schedule report and updates.
• Help in drafting Requests for proposals, specifically the time schedule and the schedule reporting requirements.
• Drafting the time (schedule) management plan, discussion and agreeing with the client, the plan to include schedule levels, coding, schedule general accepted standards.
• Establish and agree schedule levels and tasks coding and break down.
• Attend planned and schedule meetings representing the client with various strategic partners
• Ensure cross functional cooperation and visibility among other departments to ensure alignment on deadline and critical activities.
• Run sensitivity analysis for various schedule changes, showing the time and cost implications for various changes.
• Flag any issues or concerns to management to help reducing the probability and impact of any schedule related risks.

• Ability to meet cost, time and quality objectives when delivering projects
• Deliver solution milestones delivered against plan
• Adoption of Project Management processes and governance across the key business areas
• Production of consistent project artefacts such as project plans, status reporting and financial reporting
• Experience in mega-project/program in the GCC and KSA
• Advanced level user of Primavera
• PMP certified is a plus
• Professional accreditations