Separation Programme Planner

Project Planner / PMO

Remote (some occasional travel)

£450-500 p/d Inside

emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm Specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector, we power progress, solve challenges and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.

We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication in delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients but we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

We are looking for a Project/Programme Planner is responsible for developing, maintaining, and reporting on the integrated programme schedule for a separation programme (technology and business). The role ensures that project timelines, dependencies, milestones, and critical paths are accurately captured to support successful delivery of separation activities.

Main Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the integrated programme plan across multiple workstreams.
• Work with project managers, workstream leads, SMEs and external partners to gather schedule information and updates.
• Identify and manage dependencies, risks, assumptions, and critical path activities.
• Track progress against key milestones and escalation points.
• Produce regular schedule reports, dashboards, and planning insights for programme governance forums.
• Support project managers with scenario planning for impact assessments to baseline plans.
• Ensure planning standards and programme controls are consistently applied.
• Facilitate planning workshops and schedule review sessions with stakeholders.
• Maintain alignment between programme objectives, workstream plans, and delivery milestones.

Key Requirements

• Experience working as a Planner within large-scale technology, transformation, or separation programmes in financial services.
• Strong scheduling and planning skills using tools such as Microsoft Project.
• Highly proficient in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience managing integrated plans across multiple projects and workstreams.
• Strong understanding of programme governance, dependencies, and critical path analysis.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and complex programme environment.
• Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, or technology separation programmes.
• Knowledge of PMO and programme management methodologies (e.g., MSP, PRINCE2, PMI).
• Experience working with infrastructure, applications, data, cybersecurity, or business separation workstreams.

Our people

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle.

We pride ourselves on;

• Providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose.
• Promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development.
• Providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model
• Investing in employees’ growth through ongoing training and development
• Autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise
• Providing an transparent performance and career management experience.

Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients’ most pressing business challenges, and build lasting value in disciplines such as:

• Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction
• Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs
• Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation