Senior Planning Manager

Overview

Join Mace to help deliver large-scale energy and infrastructure programmes aligned with net-zero goals. You will establish consistent scheduling standards, govern baselines, and drive data quality to support decision-making. You’ll model scenarios, assess risks, and provide visibility from lookaheads to milestones, enabling proactive delivery management. This role partners with senior stakeholders to align plans with sustainability objectives and client outcomes.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible and hybrid working options
• inclusive and diverse workplace
• wellbeing emphasis

Responsibilities

• Ensure consistent application of coding structures, planning standards, and risk-adjusted logic across schedule inputs
• Govern schedule updates, baseline control, and reporting cycles; drive contributor compliance and data quality
• Manage scenario modelling and impact assessments to support decision-making for major changes and emerging risks
• Provide clear visibility from short-term lookaheads through to key programme milestones to enable proactive management of risks and opportunities
• Develop reporting outputs that support planning across short, medium, and long-term horizons
• Maintain a robust, integrated planning baseline to support confident decision-making
• Improve alignment across stakeholders and contributors
• Enhance ability to identify, mitigate, and manage delivery risks

Key requirements

• Membership of APM, RICS, CIOB, ICE, AACE, IRM, IEMA or equivalent demonstrable professional or personal development
• Extensive experience in the successful planning of projects and programmes in the Energy/Utilities sector
• Deep property or infrastructure project management expertise
• Strong commercial and financial acumen
• Leadership and management experience of large, diverse teams
• Experience of managing relationships with key senior stakeholders
• Knowledge of how carbon and sustainability considerations will shape the outlook of the projects you are working on

• leadership
• stakeholder management
• collaboration
• project planning and scheduling
• scenario modelling
• risk management

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