Strategic Planner

Responsibilities:

You are responsible for developing and monitoring project plans. You proactively gather the necessary information from the various project disciplines.
You initiate and facilitate interactive planning workshops with relevant stakeholders;
You work together with risk managers and various stakeholders to identify opportunities and bottlenecks in the planning, identify and assess risks, provide advice on possible solutions, ensure implementation in the system and monitor control measures;
You prepare the overall (probabilistic) project planning using Primavera;
You ensure integrity within the project portfolio by analyzing the interfaces and interdependencies with other projects and the mutual influence on the planning;
You support the project teams with regard to the overall (probabilistic) planning and translate the project planning into useful management information (progress and impact analysis) for the project team;
You assess and test detailed plans drawn up by internal and external parties and identify any bottlenecks and advise on adjustments;
You proactively communicate about the project status and report deviations in the lead times of critical activities.

Profile:

You have an MBO/HBO working and thinking level with 5 to 10 years of work experience;
You have demonstrable experience in successfully managing schedules within projects and in a portfolio, preferably in infrastructure-technically oriented organizations (e.g. the energy sector);
You are a connecting factor, professional, analytical, flexible, independent and a problem solver and therefore know how to organize and plan your work well;
You have a positive attitude, are environmentally aware and organizationally sensitive and can work well with project team members, internal and external stakeholders;
You have the ability to fulfil an advisory role even in challenging situations;
You have the skills to think about optimizations with regard to project planning, but also to implement these optimizations within the project teams;
You identify opportunities and act proactively. You prefer to take action on your own initiative rather than passively wait.
You have good communication skills and have an excellent command of Dutch and good spoken and written English.

Contract: 1 year/ ZZP
Location: Weert/Hybrid