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We are looking for a Planning Management Lead to work on one of our major projects in Qatar.

The main duties of the Planning Management Lead include, but are not limited to:

Key Responsibilities & Duties:

- Overall responsibility for the management of the planning discipline within the PMO

- Accountable for the visibility of the interfaces between programs and inform senior management of potential issues.

- Responsible for the management of the planning strategy and standards across the program, providing planning governance for the business.

- Responsible for administration of the QRDP Master Schedule

- Accountable for the critical path analysis and recommend mitigation to the business.

- Accountable for working with Cost & Budget function (PMO), Commercial and Finance, to provide a coherent approach for period reporting program costs.

- Accountable for working with Commercial and Finance to provide program information for future budget forecasting (Ministry of Finance).

- Accountable for period data feed (planning data) into PMIS

- Responsible for the data extracts to external stakeholders for the on-going national logistical exercise.

- Accountable for the data extract to the Risk Management team within the PMO

- Accountable for assisting the contract administration department in claims assessment (forensic planning)

- Provide leadership and direction to the planning function.

- Provides support to Qatar Rail at external stakeholder forums

- Supports the PMO Delivery Director at board level.

- Facilitate the planning forum (includes the PMCs).

- Accountable for harmonized P6 reporting throughout the business

- Accountable for schedule review analysis

- Accountable for the recommendations prepared with regards to schedule mitigation measures with respect to schedule risk, clashes and impacts

- Accountable (where assigned) for database synchronisation with respect to reference data (calendars, project codes, resource codes etc.....)

- Accountable to support the Program Systems Management Lead for tuning Primavera.

- Accountable to support the Program Systems Management Lead to ensure that all Primavera and Tilos upgrades are conducted seamlessly.

- Accountable to support in application performance is monitored so that it does not impact the business.

- Accountable to support to the Program Systems Management Lead with respect to Primavera interfaces and other business systems