Planning Manager

We are currently looking for a Planning Manager consultant experienced leading planning teams on international oil and gas projects.

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.

Contract period: 05.01.2026(as soon as possible) – 31.12.2026

Work location: Asker

Please contact Grethe Borg, 905 21 929, grethe.borg@vegaconsultants.no, for more information about this role.