Microsoft Planner

Term: 6-month contract initially

Location: Working remotely, occasionally working from the Wiltshire office

Rate: £competitive rate of pay

“Our client is a well-established Nationwide Rail company whose professionalism and well-respected name have been instrumental in their success. They provide an exceptional service to their customers and are focused on continually improving this”.

They are looking for a Microsoft Planner to be accountable for building, analysing and reporting on Microsoft Project Plans - adding value with experience and skills, challenging where required and being able to liaise and report with site Managers.

Responsibilities and Skills

• The successful applicant will have strong and recent MSP expertise.
• Support project teams with an understanding of the activities across more than one workstream in a programme.
• Demonstrate a clear level of planning control, governance, and reporting
• Provision of Recommendations for Key Management reports from Plans
• Management of Plan Tracking and Progress Reporting Production and ongoing maintenance of Standard output reports
• One to One Planning Support to assist Workstream Managers in creating and maintaining fully resourced and meaningful project plans in accordance with our processes
• Plan resource levelling to smooth out resource overloads, future forecasting of resourcing and the generation of cost models based on plan contents.
• Microsoft Project 2016/2019 experience required. Enterprise edition experience desirable
• Microsoft Office 365 suite of products experience required
• Developing and maintaining detailed real-time schedules for single projects across multi-discipline and multi-functional teams
• Combining multiple project schedules to develop a resource levelled portfolio view containing committed and forecast work
• Providing consistent and high integrity schedules to be used for day-to-day tasking, resource allocation, progress reporting and long-term planning

Our client is looking to move quickly with this position. If you have the relevant skills and are looking for your next exciting opportunity, please get in touch asap!

Amy Naden at Vital:

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