Flexible / Hybrid

London - £42,836 to £59,488 per annum

National - £39,496 to £54,850 per annum

36 hours per week - flexible working patterns considered.

Permanent



Are you looking for your next opportunity?

If you have in depth planning and scheduling experience in complex delivery environments, at project and ideally at portfolio level, then we want to hear from you!

We're looking for a Portfolio Planner to join our team, responsible for leading production and maintenance of the Portfolio Plan. With excellent communication skills you'll engage with stakeholders for planning purposes and work on driving forward future development of the plan, planning approach and wider planning strategy.

You'll lead on the production and regular update of our Group Technology and Change Portfolio Plan using best practice and industry standard tools to ensure delivery schedules are accurately documented, realistic and executed. With a proven capability in building and maintaining productive stakeholder relationships with a wide range of organisations and people, you'll provide appropriate challenge of the practicality of such plans and will schedule, monitor and report on portfolio-related activities.

Able to translate complex issues into clear messages with the ability to adapt style and tone for different audiences, you'll need to engage confidently and effectively with senior management to explain complicated matters in a readily understandable way. You'll be expected to contribute to planning at programme and project level to create an integrated portfolio plan, ensuring breadth of plans include all elements of the project plan, such as including delivery activity from other programme and project contributors and ensuring their roadmaps are considered in the overall portfolio plan.

Assisting in project and programme governance, monitoring of performance against programme and project plans and milestones, and carrying out impact analysis of proposed changes means you'll need the ability to analyse planning data and present large volumes of qualitative and quantitative information in a concise and meaningful way, working alongside programmes and other portfolio functions.You'll identify inter-dependencies across projects and other organisational initiatives through engagement with project delivery staff and ensure that scheduling conflicts can be managed effectively.

You'll validate resource plans, identify risks and provide early notification of exceptions, produce regular variations of the plan, facilitate portfolio planning sessions and analyse the plan through regular workshops and one-to-one engagement with various programmes and enabling functions, working closely with the programme and change teams to link key portfolio milestones to benefits profiles and to improve insight around milestone movements through the change control process.

If you have a strong working knowledge of Excel, Visio and MS Project and a recognised project or programme management qualification/ certification along with excellent organisational the this could be the opportunity for you!

What you can expect from us

Here at Clarion we're dedicated to rewarding hard work and commitment and providing benefits that support you and your lifestyle. As standard we offer;-

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Competitive salaries that are benchmarked regularly against current market rates
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Initial 25 Days annual leave (plus bank holiday), increasing to 30 days after 3 years' service.
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A flexible benefit scheme tailored to you, inclusive of healthcare options, dental insurance, restaurant card and cycle to work along with 1% of your salary to spend on whichever approved benefit you like!
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Matched pension contributions of up to 7.5% of your salary with generous life assurance
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Flexible and agile working for the majority of our employees.

Other perks

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Company Bonus Scheme
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Eye care vouchers
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Holiday trading scheme allowing you to buy and sell leave
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Free counselling and legal advice scheme for you and your family
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Interest free loans for season ticket and study leave

Our commitment to equality and diversity means that we are keen to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance, including but not limited to part-time working and job share, enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, and compassionate leave.

Closing Date: Monday 12th December 2022 at midnight.

For further details on this vacancy and to download the role profile Portfolio Planner please visit our website or click 'apply'.

Occasional travel required.

You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy; Clarion are not able to offer visa sponsorship. You are required to reside in the UK for the duration of your employment.





Diversity and Inclusion

We want Clarion to be a workplace where everyone feels valued, can be themselves and know they can reach their full potential. We embrace and celebrate our differences through various initiatives and support colleagues through a number of staff networks.

We're committed to building a strong, diverse workforce and making Clarion an inclusive place to work.