Senior Leader of Project Planning and Strategy (5771)

SubCom•Newington, NH

19h•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Leader of Project Planning & Strategy bridges the gap between detailed execution and long-term business goals. This role requires a unique blend of high-level strategic alignment and technical mastery of complex project timelines. This role will bridge across the functional organizations to ensure execution alignment, efficiency and ensure the cross-functional integration of project schedules and financial baselines to ensure organizational alignment. This position is a critical link between high-level business goals and ground-level project execution. Their role focuses on ensuring that project timelines align perfectly with budgetary constraints and resource availability as well as forecasting risk and the delivery of predictive forecasts that drive executive decision-making to ensure we are operating and executing in the most effective manner. They turn the Project Schedule into a Financial Strategy, ensuring the project remains profitable and predictable from inception to completion.

Requirements

Minimum of 5-7 years in large scale management of project controls or scheduling, with a significant portion specifically in marine construction, subsea cable installation, or offshore engineering.
Ability to synthesize complex data into actionable long-term plans.
Proven ability to coach project teams and influence executive decision-making.
Proven capacity to align competing priorities from different departments toward a single master plan.
Competence using industry-standard software, such as Microsoft project, excel, power point, adobe, word and AI as a tool.

Responsibilities

Align all projects within a portfolio with the company’s long-term mission and financial objectives.
Drives the development of a resource-loaded Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) that accounts for dependencies across all organizational programs.
Conduct resource loading and capacity analysis to forecast future staffing needs and identify potential bottlenecks.
Perform Schedule Risk Analysis (SRA) and develop contingency "what-if" scenarios to mitigate impacts on profitability and timelines.
Facilitate high-stakes planning meetings between project managers, technical leads, and stakeholders to resolve conflicts and synchronize efforts.
Standardize scheduling procedures across the organization and mentor junior project leads
Act as the architect of the Integrated Master Schedule, ensuring it is resources are aligned with the company and project goals
Consolidate input from all functional groups to set the original cost and schedule baselines.
Calculate the project’s final cost based on current performance trends, providing "no-surprise" updates to leadership.
Run "what-if" simulations to determine how a delay in one department or project will impact other departments or projects to ensure we are prioritizing in line with executive and corporate goals.
Manage a dynamic, multi-month outlook that adjusts as market conditions or project realities change.
Provide checks and balances for the project's health.
Analyze the cost and schedule impact of any requested change before it is approved, preventing "scope creep" from eroding the budget.
Design the recovery plan—re-sequencing work or re-allocating resources to bring the project back within financial limits when a project drifts off-track.