Manchester, United Kingdom Hybrid Employment

AECOM is hiring an Associate Director - Planning

Responsibilities

  • Promote and ensure overall team integration
  • Establishes partnerships with external employers to develop recruitment strategies and enhance internal and external relationships
  • Implement and lead collaborative planning workshops to ensure buy-in from overall project team
  • Perform impact analysis and monitors schedule variance
  • Lead application of specific planning/scheduling methods, techniques and tools
  • Advise on complex requirements and communicate analysis and corrective measures effectively
  • Manage planning/scheduling delivery of medium/high complexity projects / programmes
  • Play key role in multidisciplinary teams and take lead role in creating plans or analysing trends using numerical and statistical techniques
  • Lead and manage a team of professionals delivering planning/schedule management services and responsible for staff development
  • Mastery in setting up effective planning / schedule management systems & procedures
  • Expert knowledge of schedule management tools & software
  • Managing resourcing, growing & developing the team
  • Manage activities with significant uncertainty of solution or outcomes
  • Support to senior management in deal negotiations, contract development, due diligence & other business development or alliance development projects
  • Excellent attention to detail & able to validate & check schedule management inputs, recording & reports produced, providing basic commentary & analysis
  • Looking to future to create a vision and set strategy
  • Persuading and influencing colleagues
  • Identifying and analysing business risks
  • Building and leading a high performing team
  • Very high political and cultural acuity
  • Creating and delivering persuasive and engaging presentations to wide range of audiences in our industry
  • Spotting, developing and coaching talented individuals
  • Selling and promoting the business and winning work

Requirements

  • Excellent knowledge of Scheduling Best practice and associated software
  • Good working knowledge of planning/scheduling, EVM, project controls methodologies
  • Ability to advise on complex requirements and communicate analysis and corrective measures effectively
  • Able to manage planning/scheduling delivery of medium/high complexity projects / programmes
  • Ability to play key role in multidisciplinary teams and take lead role in creating plans or analysing trends using numerical and statistical techniques
  • Leads and manages a team of professionals delivering planning/schedule management services and responsible for staff development
  • Mastery in setting up effective planning / schedule management systems & procedures
  • Expert knowledge of schedule management tools & software
  • Managing resourcing, growing & developing the team
  • Able to manage activities with significant uncertainty of solution or outcomes

Additional Information

  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Able to validate and check schedule management inputs, recording and reports produced
  • Providing basic commentary and analysis
  • Support to senior management in deal negotiations, contract development, due diligence & other business development or alliance development projects
  • Looking to future to create a vision and set strategy
  • Persuading and influencing colleagues
  • Identifying and analysing business risks
  • Building and leading a high performing team
  • Very high political and cultural acuity
  • Creating and delivering persuasive and engaging presentations to wide range of audiences in our industry
  • Spotting, developing and coaching talented individuals
  • Selling and promoting the business and winning work
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AECOM
AECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering solutions in water, environment, energy, transportation, and buildings. The company partners with public- and private-sector clients to solve complex challenges and build legacies through advisory, planning, design, engineering, and construction management. A Fortune 500 firm with $16.1 billion revenue in fiscal year 2025.
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Department DCS
Category management
Posted 11 days ago