Our premium brand Automotive client is currently recruiting for the following role:

Senior Programme Planner (Special Vehicles) - £45.50/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire (hybrid potential) - 12 Months (maternity cover)

The Opportunity
Vehicle Personalisation is an exciting and diverse function which delivers some of the most desirable vehicles in the world. This Senior Programme Planner role is responsible for delivering assigned Bespoke & Limited-Edition programmes from initial concept through to Launch. It provides un-parallel experience and development opportunity to work with multiple functions across the full Strategic, development and Launch activities. As the Programme planner you will collaboratively lead a team to deliver projects.

Key Performance Indicators
- Responsible for the collaborative creation and successful delivery of Programmes - Planning to ensure programme gateways are delivered within scope and achieve to cost, timing and quality.
- Effective Risks management.
- Appropriately report issues and collaboratively manage them to timing plans.
- Maintain budget control and meet the financial targets established at programme gateways.
- Effectively chair and manage meetings with clear actions and minutes Key

Accountabilities and Responsibilities
- Responsible for on-time & robust achievement of gateways and milestones.
- Responsible for delivering programmes to cost, timing and quality.
- Responsible for robust planning to ensure activities take place at the right time in advance of milestones and gateways maintaining a clear critical path.
- Responsible for running and chairing weekly programme management meetings producing clear minutes and actions.
- Support the Programme with planning activities such as chairing Timing / Planning attribute teams, leading Planning Workshops, coordinating programme content, prebuild ordering and setting up Credible Planning Governance sessions with key stakeholders.
- Support the development and delivery of the VP Planning Strategy in accordance with the Cycle Plan.
- Support look-back activities capturing all lessons learnt to ensure the success of future programme delivery.
- Responsible for maintaining Risk Register to ensure management of mitigation plans by stakeholders.
- Maintain deliverables and timing through Programme Central as required.
- Maintain a positive and constructive environment ensuring all stakeholder inputs are considered to support credible decision making.
- Support the internal and external teams with planning expertise in forums such as Escalation reviews, Steering meetings and Gateway Approval sessions. - Report progress of the programme at defined intervals to the Programme Director.
- Support continuous improvement of Programme Management processes, to enable successes to be repeated and lessons to be learnt.
- Efficiently report to management key messages and actions
- Undertake any other work as directed by their line manager in connection with their job as may be requested from time-to-time

Key Interactions
- Programme Management: Support the Strategy, Delivery and Launch interactions to maintain on-time programme delivery.
- Purchasing: Review the Sourcing status v commodity lead times, establish cost targets and achieve them.
- Engineering: understanding commodity timing to support the programme, establish cost targets and achieve them.
- Design: aligning the design and surfacing timing, risks and issues with engineering checkpoints and key gateways.
- Vehicle Engineering: awareness of the Virtual Series process and Verification Test plan
- Launch & STA: Ensuring the Pre-Production launch phase is planned effectively towards a robust PSW plan and accessories are ‘stock in bin’.
- MS&S: Support all pre-build and Comms activity: Parts ordering and communicate volume and pricing.
- Finance: Liaise with finance to deliver on budget, managing any risks.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Essential:
- Degree qualified or equivalent experience.
- Highly driven individual with proven project management, communication and leadership skills, able to integrate and act as pivotal player within a cross functional team to resolve cross-functional issues.
- Previous evidence of techniques for planning, monitoring and controlling programmes, including risk management - Conversant with Microsoft Office (particularly Excel and PowerPoint), essential

Desirable:
- Experience working in Programme, Project management, Planning and Strategy type functions.
- Presentation skills
- Risks and issues management
- Problem solving
- Experience of working in Agile methodology ideally as a scrum master or product owner Personal Profile
- An individual with a customer first mind-set who is easy to do business with and makes people feel special, driven to deliver experiences that are personalised, transparent and dependable.
- An individual who is results driven, demonstrates tenacity, drive and perseverance, with the ability to deliver in a complex, highly demanding environment.
- An individual with the ability to combine a short term, pragmatic focus with longer term planning.
- An individual who is resilient, energetic and enthusiastic, able to deliver results under pressure, whilst responding constructively to challenging new ideas and inputs.
- An individual who is able to challenge existing thinking in a positive way whilst building credibility and trust through experience and personal style.
- A good communicator who can deliver in a number of forums at different levels.
- An effective team player, actively leads, develops and supports team members. - An individual who enables speed in decision making through establishing alignment, clarity, appropriate resources and sense of urgency whilst bringing others along.
- An achiever, motivated by delivering results by establishing realistic plans and proactively driving delivery with a can-do attitude.
- Performs well under pressure and demonstrates composure.
- Structured but with experience of working in a changing and fast paced environment.
- Maintain overall integrity and impartiality towards the delivery of key programme milestones.

Additional information:
This role is on a contract basis and is Inside IR35.
The role is based at Fen End, Kenilworth in Warwickshire.
The role is for 12 months covering maternity leave.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment Business.
Premea is a specialist IT & Engineering recruitment consultancy representing clients in the UK and internationally within the Automotive, Motorsport and Aerospace sectors.

The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment business.