Company Description Working in partnership with our clients, we deliver major projects and programmes with skill and precision, by focusing on outcomes and driving high performance.  Delivering innovative solutions and exceptional outcomes across our sectors, we drive the success of our client’s projects and programmes through effective planning, highly skilled teams, and rigorous controls.
Our capabilities include asset management, controls and performance, cost and commercial management, digital, procurement and supply chain, programme advisory, project management and sustainability. Backed by our extensive experience, we focus on outcomes to transform client’s projects and programmes. With over 133 offices across 47 countries, we are an organisation of over GBP 1.5 billion turnover and 12,000+ talented team members across the world.  In 2025, we are combining with CBRE’s Project Management business to create the premier, differentiated programme, project, and cost management capability globally.  Through this change, our profile in Asia will scale significantly, comprising a team of over 4000 staff across all major countries in region.  The combination of our programme management and project management and commercial management capabilities will provide a unique opportunity to do things for our clients.  In Asia, we bring more than 4000 talented colleagues together across ten locations, supporting the region’s most iconic and critical projects and programmes.
Our local track record includes high-profile projects such as Marina Bay Sands, Osaka Expo and offshore wind farms, as well as oversight of major property portfolios for major local and global brands. Job Description The Senior Planner owns the programme dimension of every data centre opportunity, challenging whether proposed service dates are genuinely achievable and identifying the path to Ready for Service from day one.  This is not a reporting role.
The Planner interrogates developer schedules, tests assumptions, validates critical paths, and translates complex programme risks into clear recommendations for client decision makers. They provide independent schedule assurance throughout the pre lease lifecycle, ensuring commercial decisions are based on realistic delivery outcomes rather than optimistic programme commitments.  The Planner acts as the programme conscience of the deal team, bringing clarity to issues around utilities, permitting, procurement, construction, commissioning and energisation, while ensuring all key schedule risks are understood before commitments are made.
Key responsibilities Conduct independent schedule due diligence on developer programmes, assessing logic, sequencing, durations, resource assumptions, critical path and milestone credibility.  Develop and maintain independent programme assessments and route to Ready for Service for shortlisted opportunities.  Validate cP activities and constraints across utilities, permitting, procurement, construction, commissioning, fit out and power energisation.  Assess delivery readiness against required service dates and identify risks, constraints and opportunities to improve programme outcomes.  Review procurement strategies and lead times for critical long lead equipment including transformers, switchgear, generators, cooling systems and associated infrastructure.  Conduct schedule risk assessments and analysis, quantifying potential impacts to service date commitments.  Establish and maintain programme assumptions, constraints, risks and mitigation strategies for each opportunity.  Lead programme review and challenge sessions with developers, consultants and internal stakeholders to test schedule credibility.  Define, monitor and report programme readiness milestones, ensuring commitments are measurable, realistic and contractually supportable.  Support commercial negotiations by reviewing programme obligations, mil