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Planning Manager
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Company information
- Company
- unfold.
- Location
- India India
- Posted
- 2 months ago
Job description
About the role
The Planning Manager will be responsible for developing, monitoring, and controlling project schedules across all interior design-and-build projects. The role requires close coordination with design, procurement, project execution, vendors, and client stakeholders to ensure project milestones are achieved efficiently.
Key Responsibilities
1. Project Planning & Scheduling
- Own and publish comprehensive baseline project schedules for all active design-and-build projects, covering design, procurement, execution, and handover phases.
- Develop detailed, activity-level schedules that clearly identify critical path, dependencies, and float.
- Build master schedules and rolling look-ahead plans that surface risks and constraints weeks in advance, enabling proactive recovery.
- Maintain and update all schedules as actuals roll in, keeping them alive and credible as the project's source of truth.
2. Schedule Monitoring & Control
- Track actual progress against planned schedules on a weekly basis; flag delays, acceleration, and deviations immediately.
- Conduct detailed variance analysis, dig into the why behind every slip: is it design approval, procurement, execution, or resource constraints?
- Produce weekly project status reports and monthly scheduling reviews for management; articulate impact on project delivery dates and cost implications.
- Ensure zero misses on timelines, hold the line on milestones and escalate deviations that threaten delivery.
3. Risk & Recovery Management
- Proactively identify schedule-related risks, design delays, vendor lead times, resource constraints, site conditions, and develop clear mitigation strategies.
- Monitor inter-dependencies between projects and functions to flag conflicts and resource contention early.
4. Cross-Functional Coordination
- Partner closely with Design, Procurement, Execution, and Site teams to understand realistic timelines, identify bottlenecks, and drive schedule alignment.
- Facilitate monthly planning review meetings and weekly progress tracking calls; be the voice for timeline realism and early warning.
- Work with vendors, subcontractors, and suppliers to understand delivery windows and manage external dependencies.
- Support client communication on project timelines, change impact, and schedule recovery plans.
5. Planning Tools & Analytics
- Maintain accurate project records, schedule baselines, change logs, ensuring data integrity and traceability.
- Spot trends and anomalies: unusual delays, recurring bottlenecks, missed forecasts, and bring structured recommendations to close them.
Academic & Professional Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related field.
- PMP, PRINCE2, or Project Planning certifications are a strong advantage.
Experience
- 6-10 years of hands-on experience in project planning, scheduling, and project controls, not just project support.
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple complex projects simultaneously in design-and-build, commercial interiors or workplace fit-outs.
- Prior exposure to investor-facing or stakeholder reporting roles is valued.
Technical Skills
- Deep, confident command of MS Project.
- Advanced proficiency in MS Excel, dashboards, pivot analysis, data visualization, and dynamic reporting.
- Experience building project dashboards in Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent is a strong differentiator.
- Familiarity with construction methodologies, interior fit-out processes, and project lifecycle management.
Required skills
- ms excel
- engineering
- subcontractors
- project management
- power bi
- trends
- technical skills
- procurement
- risk management
- interior design
- ms project
- hands-on experience
- architecture
- bachelor's degree
- tableau
- data integrity
- analytics
- cross-functional coordination
- prince2
- construction management
- vendor management
- critical path
- pmp
- suppliers
- project planning
- forecasts
- project records
- data visualization
- professional qualifications
- variance analysis
- client communication
- dashboards
- project controls
- project scheduling
- delivery dates
- traceability
- recommendations
- project execution
- stakeholder reporting
- planning tools
- anomalies
- constraints
- commercial interiors
- mitigation strategies
- project milestones
- resource constraints
- project status reports
- bottlenecks
- dependencies
- construction methodologies
- schedule control
- pivot analysis
- float
- master schedules
- schedule monitoring
- delivery windows
- cost implications
- project lifecycle management
- site conditions
- client stakeholders
- academic qualifications
- design-and-build
- look-ahead plans
- proactive recovery
- scheduling reviews
- inter-dependencies
- resource contention
- schedule alignment
- planning review meetings
- progress tracking calls
- timeline realism
- early warning
- external dependencies
- change impact
- schedule recovery plans
- schedule baselines
- change logs
- project planning certifications
- multiple complex projects
- workplace fit-outs
- investor-facing reporting
- dynamic reporting
- interior fit-out processes
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