PMO Planning Support - Plan/Risk Management/RFP/Process/Greenfield/Resource/Procurement An exciting opportunity to work as an Planning Support / Procurement Analyst for a leading mobile telecom company based in Berkshire. The Planning Support is one of the members of the Sourcing & Supplier Insight & Planning Team and will be entirely accountable for managing all planning management documentation and process on behalf of the Procurement and Contract management team Key Responsibilities: * To collect, collate, store safely and manage the team's suite of plans and ensure plans remain representative of latest developments in workload and resource commitments. * Negotiations. To support those leading negotiations with suppliers to achieve a contracted solution that meets the expectations of business stakeholders by ensuring plans are in place and relevant risks have been identified and are being managed appropriately. * Problem solving. * To analyse problems affecting or involving multiple parties, coordinate the effort to determine swiftly and accurately the root cause(s) and then implement appropriate remedial binding actions to address the problems. * To resolve the problem in ambiguous circumstances to the satisfaction of all parties. * Coach and role model, To act as a role model for good practice planning and risk and issue management; coaching the other members of the procurement and contract management staff in the development and application of good risk and issue management and planning practice. Key Skills * A background of compiling and maintaining multiple, integrated or inter-related plans (minimum of 3 workstreams) which show dependencies between tasks, intelligent logic and work breakdown, resource commitments and earliest and latest start/finish constraints. * History of identifying, categorising, analysing, recording, tracking and presenting risks and issues with regard to procurement and / or project delivery situations. * A proven background within procurement and the ability to analyse information and process it. * Strongly preferable is a history of Process Mapping particularly the ability to create from scratch in a greenfield. All Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK If you're interested in this opportunity please forward your CV to Matt Hood at Matt.Hood@Projectpeople.com or call at 01189 140 766 Project People Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.