Senior Project Planning and Strategy Coordinator (7830)

Are you looking for an opportunity with plenty of growth potential? Do you enjoy working in an exciting, fast-paced, collaborative environment? Are you interested in working with the world’s most innovative companies to create a more connected world? 

Connecting Continents. Impacting Communities. 

The backbone of the Internet is a series of high-tech subsea fiber optic cables deployed throughout the globe - SubCom has deployed over 50% of them. Our employees ensure data communications networks are engineered, manufactured, deployed to the highest standards, enabling faster and more reliable connectivity to communities worldwide. Every member of the SubCom team plays a role in an end-to-end process that is critical to enterprises, governments, big cities, and rural towns. 

We encourage, expect, and value creativity, thoughtful risk taking, openness to change, and diverse perspectives. Whether you’re a seasoned applicant seeking a new and exciting challenge, or you’re new to the workforce and looking for a flexible, rewarding, and fast-paced position with an innovative and stable organization (since 1953), SubCom has opportunities to advance your career. 

Position Overview 

The Senior Project Planner & Strategy Coordinator is responsible for developing, executing, and revising strategy-driven project plans to help the organization meet its long-term goals. This role involves managing complex project timelines, allocating resources, managing budgets, and facilitating communication between cross-functional teams and stakeholders. The ideal candidate ensures that projects are not only completed on time but are also strategically aligned with the company's overarching vision. This position reports to the Senior Leader of the project Planning and Strategy organization

Duties/Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning & Alignment: Collaborate with leadership to define project goals, scope, and objectives, ensuring they align with broader business strategies. Will lead working level discussions on vessel allocations per project based on overall company needs.
• Project Scheduling & Tracking: Create and maintain detailed project schedules (e.g., Gantt charts, WBS) to monitor progress against deadlines and milestones. Will be the main day-to-day interface with the factory as it relates to project loads and scheduling.
• Master Ship Schedule: Will maintain, update and control the Master Ship Schedule and Quilt. Will lead group discussions and provide concise mitigation plans to the broader team
• Resource & Budget Management: Estimate labor and material needs, allocate resources effectively, and track project expenditures to ensure they stay within budget.
• Risk Mitigation & Problem Solving: Proactively identify potential risks, technical hitches, or bottlenecks and develop contingency plans to keep projects on track.
• Communication & Liaison: Act as the central point of contact between project teams, stakeholders, and clients to ensure clear, consistent, and proactive communication.
• Documentation & Reporting: Maintain comprehensive project documentation, generate status reports for management, and document key decisions from meetings.
• Process Improvement: Analyze project data and workflows to recommend improvements in efficiency and performance
• Budget Management:
  • The Senior Planner collaborates to architect the Integrated Master Schedule, ensuring it is resources are aligned with the company and project goals
  • Baseline Establishment: They consolidate input from all functional groups to set the original cost and schedule baselines.
• Forecast & Risk Management:
  • Estimate at Completion (EAC): They calculate the project’s final cost based on current performance trends, providing "no-surprise" updates to leadership.
  • Risk Modeling: They run "what-if" simulations to determine how a delay in one department or project will impact other departments or projects to ensure we are prioritizing in line with executive and corporate goals.
  • Rolling Forecasts: They manage a dynamic, multi-month outlook that adjusts as market conditions or project realities change.
• Cost Control
  • The Senior Planner provides checks and balances for the project's health.
  • Scope & Change Control: They analyze the cost and schedule impact of any requested change before it is approved, preventing "scope creep" from eroding the budget.
  • Corrective Strategy: When a project drifts off-track, they design the recovery plan—re-sequencing work or re-allocating resources to bring the project back within financial limits.