Project Planner (French Speaker)

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About this opportunity:

The Project Planning Manager (PPM) is the key support role to the Project Manager, responsible for the comprehensive planning, monitoring, and analysis of a project. The core mandate is to ensure accuracy across all project plans and tools to enable proactive decision-making and highlight performance issues.

What you will do:

• Ensure right project planning & Config management through
  • Implementing the E-2-E planning methodology to ensure alignment of all panning objects inclusive of operational activities, resource plans, material plans, spending plans , NS, CoS and billing plans
  • Continuous update of the plans to map the latest realities on the ground together with close follow up on the required CRs for the changes on the project
  • Ensure all the related planning tools are updated to facilitate the readiness of the organization to serve the project accordingly
  • Interface with project financial manager, Resource demand manager, Approved Service provider manager and Order & Delivery manager to align on financial planning, resource planning, Service provider planning and material planning
  • Ensure documentation configuration management of the project is structured according to E/// process
  • Drive documentation control center process to ensure all documentation are abiding E/// process
  • To be involved in pre-sales planning activities ensuring alignment between pre-sales plans and execution
• Ensure right project performance enhancement through
  • Structuring the right project reporting setup internally and with the customer to achieve maximum transparency on the project progress on all areas (operational, material, resources, spending, NS, CoS & Billing)
  • Supply the project manager with the right information together with analysis to enable the right / on-time decisions from the project manager based on ground facts
  • Ensure continuous update of stakeholders on multiple levels (Internal & within customer) with the project updates status (on total project level) related to project progress and challenges
  • Follow up on SLA and activity timelines and highlight issues related to continuous misalignment with the SLAs
  • Follow up on customer deliverables and ensuring ( through DCC ) that all documentation is in place

The skills you bring:

• Education: M.Sc., preferably in engineering
• Min years of experience: 4 years
• Domain experience: Telecom Network Rollout / Construction projects / Power line projects
• Experience with E/// project management and rollout management tools is an asset
• Good understanding of Service Delivery process, models, and strategy
• Strong communication including writing reports and presenting
• Financial acumen and skills
• Time management and planning
• Organized and methodological approach
• High Attention to detail
• Excellent IT skills and relevant knowledge of Planning software suites
• Ability to remain calm under pressure
• Strong Problem solving
• Good Budget and financial management
• Work as part of a team and individually

Plus experience

• Experience with any dataviz tools: Tableau, SAP Analytics, Power BI, …
• Knowledge with relational SQL databases, including SAP HANA, SQL Server, Access, …