Strategy & Planning Associate
- Do you have an interest in planning and portfolio management?
- Do you currently work as a project coordinator or similar role?
We have a brand-new growth opportunity for a Planning Associate to join our Strategy & Planning team in our ICT division. This team is responsible for managing and understanding the incoming funnel of business projects that ICT manage. This is a large and exciting portfolio of work, that will offer you plenty opportunity to learn and grow.
About the Role
A key responsibility for this role is to assist with the administration, coordination and analysis and reporting of the incoming funnel of projects received from the business. Having a good understanding of the problem we are trying to solve will ensure that each project is appropriately framed for our delivery teams to pick-up and implement. This will require you to proactively engage with relevant parts of the team to facilitate the understanding of project scope and intended use where required.
Key duties
- Assist with the development of templates and tools for project and business planning processes.
- Assist with the preparation of monthly and on-demand reports to update management on progress against the business plan.
- Assist with project administration as required.
- Support and train team members in using Continuous Improvement to achieve business outcomes.
- Contribute to the implementation and monitoring of process improvements across key business planning and project delivery procedures.
Skills and Experience
- Tertiary qualification in a project, planning, or strategy discipline or; 1-2 years’, Planning, or Project Management experience
- Experience with PPM, Project and Planning tools is advantageous
- Understanding of waterfall or v-model methodologies is highly advantageous
- Ability to work autonomously and self-direct where required
- Excellent communication, relationship building and stakeholder management skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Excellent attention to details
Why you should join Fisher & Paykel Healthcare
Our success is due to a supportive and friendly culture that fosters innovation and an achievement driven and focused team. We offer exceptional benefits and a commitment to developing our employees.
Aside from working for one of New Zealand's largest companies, doing meaningful work with some excellent people, we do have a few other things to bring to the table! We have a beautiful campus with free parking, several cafeteria's offering up amazing, subsidised food from New Zealand top chefs. We offer life insurance, income protection insurance and critical illness cover as well as other benefits like generous a parental support scheme, profit-sharing bonus and a discounted share purchase scheme.
We want to hear your ideas, so bring your passion and vision and we'll do a power of good together!