Programme Planner

A global law firm is currently seeking an experienced Programme Planner to support a large multi‑year transformation programme. This role will take full ownership of planning, scheduling, progress tracking and cross‑workstream integration across a wide and complex delivery portfolio, ensuring senior stakeholders have a clear and proactive picture of programme performance. Job Details: Start date: ASAP Duration: until 31st March 2027 initially Rate: up to £650pd Inside IR35 via Umbrella Location: London Hybrid: 3 days in the office (mandatory) Key Requirements: Extensive experience as a Programme Planner, with deep expertise in integrated planning, scheduling, dependencies, critical path analysis and progress tracking. Ability to work across 12-14 active workstreams, consolidating plans into a single, unified schedule and producing accurate and timely reporting for senior leadership. Strong capability to proactively identify blockers, slippage, risks, and misalignment and escalate early with clear, actionable insights. Skilled in creating and maintaining robust programme schedules, including cross‑workstream dependencies, resource demand profiles and sequencing constraints. Strong knowledge of MS Project, with hands‑on experience managing large, multi‑layered MPP files. Able to challenge stakeholders constructively, interrogating plan quality, assumptions, estimates and the realism of timelines. Comfortable presenting progress updates, dashboards and milestone reporting at C‑suite level, with strong visual communication and data interpretation skills. Highly proactive, solution‑oriented mindset, someone who drives the planning agenda rather than waits to be directed. Experience supporting complex, multi‑region transformation programmes; ideally large technology migration experience What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at (url removed)