Mace
Delivery consultants & construction experts transforming visions into built reality.
Associate Director - Planning
Lead planning function across portfolios, delivering schedules, controls, and team development.
Job Highlights
About the Role
The role is accountable for the planning function across defined portfolios, ensuring effective planning, scheduling and monitoring of projects and tenders, and driving consistent deployment of planning and project controls procedures across complex projects and business units. Mace promotes safety, client focus, integrity, and opportunity, fostering a safe, diverse, and inclusive environment, delivering quality outcomes, acting ethically, and encouraging continuous improvement. • Manage planning delivery across assignments and business areas aligned to strategic objectives. • Influence negotiations, governance and long‑term functional strategy with integrity and commercial rigour. • Develop and retain high‑performing, inclusive teams through mentoring and talent development. • Plan and schedule delivery across medium to high complexity projects, programmes and portfolios. • Provide expert project controls, Earned Value Management and data‑driven analysis for corrective actions. • Inspire and develop planning teams via performance management, coaching and technical leadership. • Support senior management in negotiations, business development and net zero carbon delivery. • Confidently manage activities with significant uncertainty of solution or outcome.
Key Responsibilities
- ▸planning delivery
- ▸earned value
- ▸project controls
- ▸data analysis
- ▸schedule management
- ▸team development
What You Bring
Mace combines construction expertise with consultancy to unlock potential in every person or project and redefine the boundaries of ambition. Our values shape the way we consult and define the people we want to join us on our journey. • Hold a degree or equivalent with professional experience in construction, programme, project or commercial management. • Demonstrate expert knowledge of schedule management tools and software. • Proven ability to establish effective planning and schedule management systems and procedures.
Requirements
- ▸degree
- ▸construction management
- ▸schedule tools
- ▸planning
- ▸consultancy
Benefits
Mace is an inclusive employer that welcomes diverse candidates, encourages applications even if not meeting all criteria, and is open to part‑time, flexible, and hybrid working arrangements.
Work Environment
Hybrid