Lead Programme Planner

📋 Description

• • As Lead Programme Planner at Capita Pensions Solutions, you will provide expert planning and scheduling support across complex programmes and portfolios, operating at programme and portfolio level to create robust, integrated plans that deliver clear visibility of delivery progress, risks, and dependencies for senior internal and external stakeholders.
• • Day to day, you will develop, maintain, and assure programme and portfolio-level plans and schedules; collate, analyse, and challenge schedules at multiple levels to provide a consolidated ‘helicopter view’ of delivery status; produce high-quality executive reporting; identify, capture, and track dependencies; facilitate planning workshops with senior stakeholders; coach colleagues in effective planning techniques; act as a subject-matter expert for MS Project; and contribute to defining, improving, and embedding planning and scheduling standards across Capita.
• • Capita Pensions Solutions is a division of Capita plc specialising in pensions services for over 50 years, managing pension schemes of various shapes and sizes, and supporting over 450 schemes and more than 7 million members with end-to-end pension solutions across administration, data remediation, software, actuarial services, investments, scheme management, and member communications.
• • In this role, you will deepen your expertise in complex programme planning, enhance your leadership in planning standards and best practices, develop advanced stakeholder management and coaching skills, and play a pivotal role in shaping Capita’s approach to resilient and responsible pension strategy delivery.