Senior Project Planner W/M

Company

We connect the world, We connect people.

With more than 700 000 km of optical underwater systems around the world, Alcatel Submarine Networks’ stands for adventure and daily innovation for one’s career. Our teams’ synergy drives our innovative high-tech solutions and lets us develop our exceptional know-how. Joining us means joining a collective, joining us means connecting the world! So, are you ready for your next adventure?

Post description

Purpose of the Job:
The Senior Project Planner is responsible for managing (creating, updating, verifying coherence etc.)
Project schedules by reviewing and compiling various project elements from different departments,
with the support of the ASN Project Team. The Senior Project Planner is also responsible for measuring
the project’s progress by verifying, for each Work Package of the agreed project plan, the progress of
the planned figures with the actual ones. This includes scenario development and analysis, risk
identification, and proposing mitigation measures to the Project Team where appropriate. This
position aims to support the Project Team members to ensure a common understanding of the
project’s progress and risks such that they can develop a plan to successfully execute their part of the
work. It is likely that two concurrent plans (internal and external) may be required.

Responsibilities:
 Preparation and coordination of the project plan (Plan of Work/POW - the detailed project
schedule);
 Verifying to the extent possible the integrity of the data inputs for the POW and checking
consistency between the tasks;
 Documenting and monitoring of progress inside the POW or by using additional tools such as Excel
or PowerPoint for project metrics;
 Preparing and presenting updates of project schedules to Customers as required by project teams;
 Identifying changes and recommending preventive and/or mitigation actions;
 Analysis of risks and assessment of impact of delays;
 Monitoring adherence of a project’s schedule with the agreed plan(s) both internal and external
(Customer focused);
 Collaborating with the project team to maintain and update the project schedule on a regular
basis;
 Identifying the critical paths, dependencies across projects and alerting Project teams to areas of
conflict, priority issues, bottlenecks and associated consequences;
 Supporting project teams in monthly reporting of costs, progress, and related metrics;
 Proposing and acting with the Project planning team for internal improvement projects.
 Supporting internal Project reporting processes and proposing/managing improvements. 

Wanted profil

Requirements:
 Experience of project planning within high-value ($100M+) multidisciplinary projects, preferably
with undersea/telecoms relevance
 Meticulous attention to detail
 Able to develop and make presentations both internally and externally to Customers that often do
not have English as a first language
 Ability to analyse, synthesise, summarise and present concisely
 Good interpersonal skills: persuasiveness, maturity and tact
 Excellent team player, but also self-motivated and adaptable
 Ability to work proactively to tight deadlines in a high-pressure environment
 Accountability, creativity, pro-activity and problem solving
 Ability to quickly develop a technical appreciation of submarine cable projects
 Very strong IT skills, especially in the management of complex and non-numerical data
 Competence in another language (especially French and/or Spanish) would be advantageous
 Occasional overseas travel as required, possibly at short notice
 Project Management tools: strong knowledge of MS Project (including macro programming) and
MS Office (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) including macro programming. Experience of Primavera
useful but not mandatory.
 Project Management knowledge (contract, change management, risk analysis)
 Documentation management (information management & documentation control methodology)

Qualifications:
 Degree in business, business administration, project management or equivalent
 PMI or Prince 2 certification preferred but not essential 

Réf: 2557053c-d97d-47a8-86e9-0f7184b78929