Senior Leader Of Project Planning And Strategy (5771)

Are you looking for an opportunity with plenty of growth potential? Do you enjoy working in an exciting, fast-paced, collaborative environment? Are you interested in working with the world's most innovative companies to create a more connected world?

Connecting Continents. Impacting Communities.

The backbone of the Internet is a series of high-tech subsea fiber optic cables deployed throughout the globe - SubCom has deployed over 50% of them. Our employees ensure data communications networks are engineered, manufactured, deployed to the highest standards, enabling faster and more reliable connectivity to communities worldwide. Every member of the SubCom team plays a role in an end-to-end process that is critical to enterprises, governments, big cities, and rural towns.

We encourage, expect, and value creativity, thoughtful risk taking, openness to change, and diverse perspectives. Whether you're a seasoned applicant seeking a new and exciting challenge, or you're new to the workforce and looking for a flexible, rewarding, and fast-paced position with an innovative and stable organization (since 1953), SubCom has opportunities to advance your career.

Position Overview

The Senior Leader of Project Planning & Strategy bridges the gap between detailed execution and long-term business goals. This role requires a unique blend of high-level strategic alignment and technical mastery of complex project timelines. This role will bridge across the functional organizations to ensure execution alignment, efficiency and ensure the cross-functional integration of project schedules and financial baselines to ensure organizational alignment. This position is a critical link between high-level business goals and ground-level project execution. Their role focuses on ensuring that project timelines align perfectly with budgetary constraints and resource availability as well as forecasting risk and the delivery of predictive forecasts that drive executive decision-making to ensure we are operating and executing in the most effective manner.

They turn the Project Schedule into a Financial Strategy, ensuring the project remains profitable and predictable from inception to completion.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Integration: Align all projects within a portfolio with the company's long-term mission and financial objectives.

• Master Schedule Ownership: Drives the development of a resource-loaded Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) that accounts for dependencies across all organizational programs.

• Resource Strategy: Conduct resource loading and capacity analysis to forecast future staffing needs and identify potential bottlenecks.

• Risk Management: Perform Schedule Risk Analysis (SRA) and develop contingency "what-if" scenarios to mitigate impacts on profitability and timelines.

• Cross-Functional Leadership: Facilitate high-stakes planning meetings between project managers, technical leads, and stakeholders to resolve conflicts and synchronize efforts.

• Process Leadership: Standardize scheduling procedures across the organization and mentor junior project leads

• Budget Management:

• This role acts as the architect of the Integrated Master Schedule, ensuring it is resources are aligned with the company and project goals

• Baseline Establishment: They consolidate input from all functional groups to set the original cost and schedule baselines.

• Forecast & Risk Management:

• Estimate at Completion (EAC): They calculate the project's final cost based on current performance trends, providing "no-surprise" updates to leadership.

• Risk Modeling: They run "what-if" simulations to determine how a delay in one department or project will impact other departments or projects to ensure we are prioritizing in line with executive and corporate goals.

• Rolling Forecasts: They manage a dynamic, multi-month outlook that adjusts as market conditions or project realities change.

• Cost Control

• Provides checks and balances for the project's health.

• Scope & Change Control: They analyze the cost and schedule impact of any requested change before it is approved, preventing "scope creep" from eroding the budget.

• Corrective Strategy: When a project drifts off-track, they design the recovery plan-re-sequencing work or re-allocating resources to bring the project back within financial limits.