Planning Manager

Contract period: ASAP - 31/12/2026
Location: Asker

Tasks and responsibilities

• Lead and manage the planning group.

• Translate the plan and schedule strategy into the execution plan with all schedule owners.

• Ensure that all plans are aligned with the contract and administrative requirements, including key interfaces with partners, sub-contractors, suppliers, and third parties.

• Proactively control, monitor, analyse, and report the performance of the work to all relevant stakeholders.

• Proactively communicate trends, critical path analyses, and consequences of scope changes, variations, risks, and opportunities to key internal and external stakeholders.

• This role formally reports to the Business Manager; however, is expected to collaborate across the project and enable all project stakeholders to deliver on their scheduled scope.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in business administration or technical discipline or equivalent experience.

• +10 years’ experience in leading planning teams on international oil and gas projects.

• +10 years of proven experience with strategic planning, providing planning insights for decision-making, and simplifying schedules for internal and external stakeholders.

• Offshore or construction experience is a plus.

• Product planning and scheduling experience for system solutions is a plus.

• Excellent communication, analytical, and technical skills.

• Proven experience in leading people through change and ensuring schedule ownership with key stakeholders.

• Ability to translate complex changes into predictable outcomes.