Strategic Project Planner

Position overview

As a Strategic Project Planner you will monitor, review and integrate project schedules across the portfolio and provide strategic planning, scheduling and project-control insights to support the successful delivery of the 2GW Program within the Hitachi & L&T portfolio. You will translate scheduling data into strategic recommendations, scenario analyses and management reports to support decision-making.

Key responsibilities

• Review and assess contractor programmes against contractual requirements.
• Monitor project progress and perform schedule deviation analyses.
• Support development and implementation of mitigation and recovery measures with project teams.
• Evaluate schedule deviations reported by contractors and assess impacts on projects and the overall portfolio.
• Forecast potential schedule shifts and evaluate impacts on key delivery milestones.
• Support preparation and substantiation of claim defense dossiers.
• Provide periodic planning reports, KPI dashboards and schedule scenario analyses.
• Act as primary point of contact for planning-related questions between contractors and project teams.
• Support implementation, visualization and reporting of planning datasets using Microsoft Excel and Power BI.
• Contribute to the growth and implementation of the Scheduling Maturity Model (SMM) and continuous improvement of planning, scheduling and project control methodologies.
• Deliver strategic schedule analyses and management reports to support informed decision-making.
• Support risk managers by integrating planning data into project risk assessments and registers.

Experience & qualifications

• Education: Completed Bachelor's or Master's degree in Economics, Engineering, Project Management or a comparable discipline.
• Experience: Minimum of 3 years relevant experience in project scheduling and planning, preferably within large and complex infrastructure projects.
• Tools: Proven experience with Oracle Primavera P6 (minimum 3 years). Experience with Microsoft Excel and Power BI preferred.
• Contract & claims: Proven experience with contract strategies and claim situations in project environments.
• Domain knowledge: Experience within large-scale energy, infrastructure or engineering projects preferred; knowledge of HVDC projects is a strong advantage.
• Other: Willingness to travel when required; living in the Netherlands.

Competencies

• Strong analytical and structured thinking skills.
• Ability to independently assess complex planning and scheduling issues.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong reporting and presentation capabilities.
• Proactive, solution-oriented mindset with a hands-on mentality and focus on results and continuous improvement.
• Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary and international project teams.
• Fluent in English (spoken and written); Dutch language skills are an advantage but not mandatory.

Additional information

• Focus: Strategic planning, schedule integration and portfolio-level analysis, including contractor schedule reviews, delay analyses and claim-related matters.
• Working language: English.
• Working model: Hybrid.

Eisen

• Completed Bachelor's or Master's degree in Economics, Engineering, Project
  Management or a comparable discipline
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in project scheduling and
  planning, preferably within large and complex infrastructure projects
• Proven experience with contract strategies and claim situations in project
  environments
• Strong knowledge and practical experience with Oracle Primavera P6 (minimum
  3 years)
• Living in the Netherlands
• Fluent in English, both spoken and written
• Please submit both the candidate's motivation and CV in English
• Pre-Employment Screening (PES) is mandatory before commencement and may
  take up to six weeks
• The candidate may only start after successful completion of the screening
  process

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