Project Planning Manager

About the Role As a member of the Project Core Team, you will develop and maintain the project schedule (internal and customer) to manage time commitments across tender, contract or program execution. You will liaise with the project team and external partners to ensure aligned planning and timely delivery. What You'll Do

• In tender: Analyze the Customer's schedule management requirements (contractual tool, schedule structure, reporting constraints), define tender preparation schedule and monitor until submission, detail the tender schedule based on Reference Library templates, gap analysis, Metiers commitments, and PXO tender strategy; highlight the critical path and risks linked to the project schedule and propose optimization & mitigation actions; contribute with the project schedule to the project strategy in compliance with the contractual requirements; participate to the definition of the project schedule interfaces with the partners and the Customer; deliver on time all schedule deliverables down to the requested level; estimate the cost of Scheduling management effort.
• In contract or program execution: Define and maintain the Project Time Management Plan; in case of a multi-Unit project, the lead Unit PrPM coordinates the project scheduling community (meetings, MoMs…), detail and update the project schedule based on the contractual targets and data provided by all stakeholders; propose the project baseline, and ensure its acceptance (internally and by the Customer); ensure the consistency of all internal and external Stakeholders commitments, and manage the schedules interfaces; organise and lead periodic project schedule sessions; actively participate to project core team meetings; provide a timely updated schedule situation highlighting the gap between the actual and the baseline; focus on early identification of potential delays; prepare schedule and progress reports for Customer or Lead Unit or Partners; provide support to Project Manager on all issues related to projects schedule; for Reference Library, develop and maintain the schedule templates; for all: apply the Project Scheduling Process; contribute to the return of experience (REX) and improvements, share best practices. What We're Looking For
• EDUCATION Engineering Graduate
• EXPERIENCE Project management and industrial background 10-12 years of exp. Is used to work with internal processes: Tenders, Projects, Engineering, Industrial, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Quality and their interfaces
• TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES Good overall knowledge of railway products and systems; Agility to juggle with schedules (internal and customer schedules) simulations and various scenarii; Rigorous, structured and sense of anticipation; Be able to challenge project team and highly proactive in proposing solutions; Comfortable in an international and a multi-cultural environment; EHS awareness
• BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES Good communication/presentation skill; People Management skills; Conflict management and multi-tasking, Collaborative management; Able to Adapt to a changing hypothesis environment; Financial Knowledge
• LANGUAGE SKILLS: Proficient in English Nice to Have
• None explicitly stated in the posting Compensation & Benefits
• Not specified