Project Planner (M&A)

Location: Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom; hybrid workplace

Company

Business technology solutions provider serving the energy, public, and finance sectors through platforms, data, and business applications.

What you will do

• Create, manage, and update detailed project schedules in Microsoft Project.
• Define tasks, durations, dependencies, milestones, critical paths, progress, forecasts, and baselines.
• Integrate project schedules into programme- and portfolio-level plans while maintaining resource plans.
• Apply PMO standards, reporting cycles, stage-gate processes, and quality assurance checks.
• Produce schedule reports, dashboards, highlight reports, RAID logs, and PMO reporting packs.
• Identify schedule variance, slippage, and delivery risks, and present planning insights to project and programme stakeholders.

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Project Desktop or Online, including dependencies, baselines, resource sheets, and tracking Gantt views.
• Understanding of project management methodologies such as PRINCE2 and Agile.
• Experience managing complex project or programme schedules, preferably in project controls or PMO environments.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organisational, and attention-to-detail skills.
• Ability to communicate schedule impacts and insights clearly and collaborate with cross-functional teams and multiple project managers.

Culture & Benefits

• Initial 3-month contract supporting a significant M&A programme.
• Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance.
• Personalised career development plans and learning opportunities.
• Annual leave, enhanced family-friendly benefits, pension scheme, private health and wellbeing schemes, insurance schemes, employee assistance programme, and discounted cash plan.
• Inclusive and equal-opportunity workplace with support for accessibility adjustments during hiring.