Portfolio Planner

Job Description: Working in partnership with the TPO Portfolio Delivery Office Team to establish and maintain good portfolio governance, including but not limited to the following : Working as part of the Portfolio Planning team to lead Portfolio planning activities in collaboration with projects or programmes to develop and maintain a Portfolio Plan to identify, track and report delivery against key milestones in support of achieving Portfolio benefits and outcome s.Challenging and assessing assumptions to ensure plans, schedules and dependencies are complete, realistic, achievable and meet project delivery standard s.Working as part of the Portfolio Planning team to identify, monitor and report interdependencies across change initiatives raising risks and issues as necessary in support of delivery of Portfolio benefits and outcome s.Engage with a wide range of stakeholders of all different levels in the organisation. Ensure stakeholder needs and responsibilities with regards to planning and scheduling are understood and incorporated into reporting arrangement s.Maintaining Portfolio baseline and ensuring change control processes are adhered to in updating the baselin e.Oversee reporting from initiatives in the Compliance Portfolio and analyse performance. Leading and / or supporting the production of key reports and briefing documents in relation to planning, scheduling and change control to support effective governance, assurance and decision makin g.Use digital tools to analyse data from across the Compliance Portfolio to provide insights into progress against the portfolio plan that inform decision making and to identify potential risks/ delays and opportunitie s.Support the development of a sound risk management culture, including identification of emerging trends and working with TPO Risk lead and other key stakeholders to monitor and resolve these through mitigating actions and escalation as appropriat e.Promote portfolio standards as best practice and offer expert advice throughout the End2End Change lifecycle, supporting capability building and the use of best practices in planning and schedulin g. Essential Criter ia:Experience of leading end-to-end project planning & schedule developm entExperience of working in a project/programme with medium/high complexi ty.Experience of using Planning & Scheduling IT software such as Service Now, MS Project, Oracle or Primavera P6Evidence of analysing and challenging data, identifying trends, drawing insights and presenting these to senior leaders to inform decision maki ng.