Integrated Planning

**General Information**:

- Date Published- 04-Sep-2024- Advertising Ends- 11-Sep-2024- Country- New Zealand- Location- Auckland, Hamilton & North Waikato- Role Type- Engineering- Work Type- Permanent- ID#- 9691**Position Description**:
**Our Co-operative**
- Fonterra’s strength is in the collective | Te Mātāpuna toa takitini
- We are a Co-operative created and owned by Aotearoa New Zealand dairy farmers. Since our beginnings, collaboration, innovation, and passion have enabled us to share the goodness of our dairy with the world. We're committed to caring for the land, our animals, and every drop of milk, producing nutritious food with safe, quality ingredients loved here in New Zealand and around the world.

As part of the Fonterra Co-op, you'll be solving for a better future alongside a team connected by solid values as we strive to be a leader in dairy sustainability, dairy innovation and science, with a focus on New Zealand milk.
- When you join Fonterra, you'll open yourself to a career of opportunities where you can grow with us by developing your skills, sharing your knowledge, and exploring diverse career paths that ignite your passions.

**About us | Whakapā mai**
- Our Capital Projects team delivers one of New Zealand’s largest and most diverse capital programs with hundreds of projects delivered each year. Working alongside some of New Zealand’s smartest and reliable companies the team delivers end to end projects across diary manufacturing, logistics, energy, water and wastewater, buildings, and asset care. With investment value from one hundred thousand to one hundred million there is opportunity abound for all project professionals to deliver value for our Cooperative.

**About the opportunity | Te whai waahi**
- As our Integrated Planning & Cost Manager, you will lead the integrated planning function of our capital portfolio, ensuring efficient optimisation and allocation of resources, engagements. and timing of projects to meet our operational and strategic goals.

Your key accountabilities include:

Portfolio strategy and planning
- Collaborating with Heads of Portfolio translate COO capital strategy into a prioritised and financially feasible plan for capital projects across a multi-year timeframe informing resource and procurement tactics.
- Cost allocation and management
- Enhance the cost estimation methodology: Establish a clear and consistent approach for estimating diary and infrastructure project costs across different WBS, categories, and regions. Own the group interface with QS partners
- Project integration and coordination
- Develop and manage integrated portfolio and key project schedules by coordinating project timelines across Capital Projects, ensuring dependencies are considered and resources are allocated effectively
- Facilitate & foster communication and collaboration between different parties involved in capital projects [i.e. engineering, procurement, construction, commercial]
- Rigorous testing of value for CoOp and key interface management with level 3 assurance
- Manage project risks and dependencies by identifying potential project risks and dependencies, developing mitigation plans to ensure successful project execution
- Project Finance
- Support for project cash forecasting and accrual. Pre-Capex compliance. Management of capitalisation. Financial interface and support and link into Ari data fields and reporting.

**About you | Moe koe**
- You hold an Engineering degree and/or Project Management qualifications, with additional finance qualifications or Quantity Surveying (QS) capabilities being highly regarded. You bring significant experience in senior project management or commercial roles related to project management, with a proven track record in financial modelling, cost management, and data analysis for major capital projects, ideally within a large asset-owning organization.

Other skills include:

- Strong influential skills across diverse stakeholders
- Cost allocation and management methodologies, budget tracking and cost benefit analysis
- Major capital project management experience.

**Our story | To Tatou Korero**
- Being part of Fonterra means being part of a unique history, realising the potential of dairy for generations to come, and solving for a better future together.
- Whanaungatanga, our Co-operative spirit, guides a common strength and purpose.
- Manaakitanga is how we care for all our people at the heart of what we do.
- Kaitiakitanga ensures we care for the land, farming in a way that regenerates our farms and environment for future generations.
- Whakaohooho inspires us all with excellent career development opportunities, benefits, flexibility, and balance to suit everyone's lifestyles and choices.
- Our Co-operative is a place where everyone can be themselves, feel empowered to do their best, and are empowered to create goodness for generations.
- Sound good to you? Come join our whānau and let’s solve for better, together