Planning Manager: Major Projects

Circa £89,000 + 5% Welcome Bonus* + £4,750 flex allowance + Up to 20% bonus + Benefits

Great journeys happen at London Gatwick. Where will your career take you?

The buzz, the energy, the sheer magic of travel… You can feel it in the air all around you. Here, you'll be part of an energetic team and a vibrant community. We can help you thrive in a career that's a world away from the everyday.

This role takes an office first hybrid approach here at London Gatwick, with three days a week in the office, two days remote, managed around the needs of the business.

What is the role?

We are searching for a Planning Manager to join the world's most efficient single-runway airport. As part of a collaborative team, you'll have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the delivery of a substantial investment plan, aimed at developing and enhancing our airport infrastructure and facilities.

You'll be instrumental to our airport's future success, working closely with our Programme Manager to achieve the strategic aims and objectives of the business. Your primary focus will be on developing, implementing, and delivering effective planning and assurance processes across a programme of projects typically valued in excess of £150m.

Reporting to the Lead Planning Manager, you'll take a key role in leading the planning of projects across all stages of their lifecycle, from concept approval to delivery and closeout. Your mission is to make sure performance targets are not just met but surpassed consistently and on time.

What will you do?

• Creating and maintaining schedules for the entire project journey, including internal and external interfaces. This will include managing the control programmes from project concept to closeout, managing contract programme evaluations, assessing compensation events, conducting delay analysis and helping to drive schedule improvements through to our supply chain
• Playing a major role in leading and managing planning teams for the programme. You'll expertly apply your knowledge and skills across multiple projects, to help us achieve our strategic goals.
• Lead all programme schedule reporting, contributing to the development of programme metrics and dashboard. Lead in reporting the schedule information to the cost estimating database for Construction, ensuring that tender timescales and actual out-turn activity durations are correctly identified and classified to continuously improve the quality of the planning and estimating database.
• Assisting in trend and change processes and finding ways to be more efficient that might positively affect programme outcomes and your teams' performance.
• Support the management of the Programme/Project Risk and Opportunity Register to identify and deliver efficiencies and value the likely time consequence of each risk/opportunity.
• Support the production, and delivery to, Monthly Cost Forecasts using the cost plan, activity schedules and referencing the project/programme schedule. Support formal programme cost reviews to ensure alignment of the cost plan and programme, action and investigate deficiencies.
• Helping the GAL planning function to grow by contributing to the development of standards, managing, motivating, coaching and mentoring team members. You'll be excited about helping talented individuals reach their potential.
• Continuously developing and upholding world-class health, safety, and environmental standards across the programme and its contractors. We aim to achieve health, safety and environmental excellence.