PMO Planner

Our client, based in Paarl, Western Cape, is a global leader in convenient foods and beverages, and is a major player in the FMCG industry has a contract vacancy for 12 months with the possibility of renewal for a PMO Planner. The position is Office based/Hybrid (2 - 3 days a week)

The purpose of the role is to plan and monitor the program and its constituent projects to ensure it remains on track.

**PLEASE NOTE ONLY SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES WILL BE CONTACTED. ONLY APPLY IF YOU QUALIFY IN FULL**

At least 5 years experience in a similar planning role
Previous direct involvement in an SAP Transformation project
FMCG experience.

A project management qualification.
Certification in Agile.
Certification as a PMI scheduling professional (PMI-SP).
- MS Office Suite.
- MS Projects.
- MS SharePoint.
- Azure DevOps.
- Clarity PPM Software.
- Zoom Platform.
- Define planning standards for the program to enable ease of roll-up of milestone data and dependencies.
- Facilitate the design and development of project and workstream plans, providing estimating support, ensuring that all milestones, internal and external dependencies are identified, logged and monitored.
- Ensure all plans include activities, time and resource estimates for risk mitigation.
- Ensure quality review and deliverable acceptance activities and associated time have been allocated realistically.
- Develop and maintain the overall program plan.
- Establish and operate mechanisms to track delivery against the program plan and regularly update progress against the plan.
- Identify and analyze interfaces and dependencies between projects and recommend appropriate actions where anomalies exist or there are areas of concern.
- Develop milestone and dependency charts to create visibility for the team.
- Track and maintain dependencies
- Advise on missed milestones, missed dependencies and assess the impact.
- Report deviations and/or changes to the original plan that can lead to serious delays and budget overruns.
- Monitor planning assumptions and take appropriate action where assumptions do not hold true.
- Advanced proficiency in MS Projects able to plan and schedule multiple projects that roll-up into a master program schedule.
- Good interviewing and listening skills.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Good networking skills.
- Good analytical skills.
- Good communication skills.
- Team orientation.
- Ability to establish and maintain a sense of discipline.
- Self-starter, resourceful.
- Self-confidence and influence.
- Bias for action, drive.
- Attention to detail.
- Resilience.