Programme Planner

Job Description:

At DXC Technology, delivering excellence for our customers and colleagues is more than just a motto, it’s something we strive towards constantly through our work. Every day we deliver mission critical services in a secure environment whilst promoting our people first agenda, a real sense of community and a healthy work-life balance. Our consistently positive customer feedback and continuous growth helps us cement our place as one of the world’s leading IT solutions enterprises, helping us deliver services and solutions in both challenging and exciting situations.

We believe that hiring a diverse team is crucial to our success and our recruiting decisions are based on your skills and experience as an individual. We actively encourage consistent growth on our journey towards a culture of inclusion and recognise that the people we employ are vital to providing a great customer experience. As such, we have a variety of training, support, and tools available to aid in your continual personal and professional development. Our ongoing goal is to drive innovation and modernise operations across the board, which includes furthering the skills of our colleagues. At DXC, building a

better you, builds a better us.

We’re looking for a Programme Planner to build, maintain, and control integrated programme schedules that give delivery teams a clear, reliable view of progress. You’ll use evidence‑based planning to create a single source of truth for milestones, dependencies, risks, and delivery confidence.

What you’ll do:

• Develop and maintain programme and project schedules using DXC standard planning tools.
• Map milestones and deliverables to contract requirements and ensure alignment across the programme.
• Monitor progress, update plans, and produce reporting packs, dashboards, and schedule insights.
• Manage stage gates, baselines, and change control, ensuring governance standards are met.
• Facilitate planning workshops and engage closely with project teams, PMO, and senior stakeholders.
• Identify and manage schedule risks, issues, and cross‑workstream dependencies.
• Drive continuous improvement in planning processes, tools, and reporting.

What you’ll bring

• Experience in programme or portfolio planning in complex, multi‑project environments.
• Strong skills with planning tools (e.g., MS Project, Jira, PowerBI, Excel).
• Knowledge of project and programme methodologies (MSP, PRINCE2, Agile).
• Excellent communication, analytical ability, and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and work collaboratively.

What will make you stand out from the crowd over in addition to the above

• Professional project/programme management certifications.
• Experience in enterprise PMO environments and/or automated reporting.
• Familiarity with Agile planning techniques.

What success looks like: Reliable, accurate programme schedules; insightful reporting; strong dependency and risk management; and improved delivery confidence across the programme. Suitable candidates must be able to achieve UK National Security Vetting

At DXC Technology, we believe strong connections and community are key to our success. Our work model prioritizes in-person collaboration while offering flexibility to support wellbeing, productivity, individual work styles, and life circumstances. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.

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