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PMO Lead
Starting Salary: c. £75,000 Depending on skills and experience
Open to all UK offices excluding London with 50% office attendance
This is a great role for someone who is an experienced PMO leader with a strong background in technology and transformation portfolios and is looking for an opportunity to shape portfolio delivery at a strategic level. This role would suit someone who enjoys leading high-performing teams, influencing senior stakeholders, and driving excellence in governance, controls, reporting, and portfolio management.
A bit about the job:
We have an exciting opportunity for a PMO Lead to join the ASC CIO portfolio, supporting the successful delivery of strategic technology initiatives. You will lead all PMO activity across the portfolio, providing governance, financial oversight, reporting, and delivery assurance to ensure investment decisions are informed, and outcomes are successfully achieved. Working closely with CIO leadership teams, you'll drive consistency, transparency, and control while leading a team of PMO professionals and embedding best practice across the portfolio. Through effective oversight, insight, foresight, and hindsight, you'll help ensure delivery remains aligned to strategic priorities and organisational objectives.
Skills and experience we're looking for:
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- Proven experience leading PMO functions across large-scale technology, transformation, or change portfolios.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to challenge and engage senior leaders at Head of and Director level.
- Expertise in portfolio governance, reporting, financial management, planning, RAID management, dependency management, and portfolio controls.
- Experience leading, developing, and motivating high-performing PMO teams.
- Strong understanding of portfolio management frameworks and experience using delivery and portfolio tools such as Planview, Jira, and Power BI.
What you’ll get for this role:
- Starting salary c. £75,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
- Bonus opportunity - 12% (E grade) of annual salary, (actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.)
- Generous pension scheme e.g. if you put in 8%, Aviva adds 14%
- 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
- Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it
- Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
- Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
- Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
- Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
- Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities, and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
- We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools
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Aviva is for everyone:
We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.
We flex locations, hours, and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.
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We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Amber Britton a call on 07775546100 or send an email to amber.britton@aviva.com.
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