Avencera
PMO Manager - People Operations, Compliance and Development
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PMO Manager - People Operations, Compliance and Development
The Business
We’re an AI-native, human-led business built to help clients reimagine, reinvent, and lead their markets into the AI era. We bring the imagination, intellect, and market insight, execution smarts, and adaptive approach to collaboration required to help leaders deliver real change.
We work with clients in four closely interdependent markets:
- Central Government, including departments, agencies, and strategic, commercial suppliers
- Health and care, including national bodies, trusts, place-based partners, and commercial and digital suppliers
- Education, including national bodies, awarding organisations, and front-line institutions
- The FTSE - principally leveraging our expertise in AI and associated capability building
Through A WORKS, we collaborate with thought leaders, innovators, and AI-specialist developers to build products and solutions which tackle the biggest problems we see in the markets we support – setting aside the consulting commercial model to work in whatever ways best solve the problem.
For example, through Project Shybird, we recently launched a suite of tools which innovate the education value chain to bring deeply researched, high-quality qualifications and learning programmes to market at pace; create and support deeply personalised learning experiences; and close the loop with deep insight.
We are a business powered by the passion, grit, insight, intellect, and execution-smarts of our people: a tightly knit team of market experts, willing to challenge market convention, and our colleagues, in pursuit of the transformational change we believe is possible through the dawn of the AI era.
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The Role
We're looking for a highly organised, proactive, and delivery-focused PMO Manager to take personal ownership of our people operations, compliance, and staff development processes.
The successful candidate will be confident managing operational processes, ensuring key activities happen on time, maintaining accurate systems and records, and driving a high standard of organisation across the business. As a growing business, our processes and priorities will continue to evolve, so you will need to be comfortable working in a role that develops over time, improving how things are done as we scale.
Under that banner, the role spans the following areas:
- People operations - owning the day-to-day operational processes that support colleagues throughout their time at Avencera, ensuring activities are well coordinated, delivered on time, and continuously improved.
- Systems and records management - maintaining accurate, reliable, and well-organised people information across our core business systems, including BambooHR and Microsoft 365, ensuring records remain up to date and fit for purpose.
- Compliance - managing recurring people compliance activities, ensuring mandatory requirements are completed, tracked, and reported appropriately.
- Development - coordinating colleague development processes, ensuring review cycles, documentation, follow-up actions, and agreed development activities are completed to a high standard.
- Staff engagement - supporting the planning and delivery of initiatives that contribute to colleague engagement, communication, and a positive employee experience.
- Internal communications - overseeing regular people and PMO-related internal communications, ensuring updates are clear, timely, consistent, and aligned with wider staff engagement activity.
- Operational coordination - overseeing relevant operational support activities, ensuring they are managed consistently, appropriately, and in line with internal expectations.
- Reporting and governance - providing accurate reporting, tracking key activities, highlighting risks, and ensuring senior colleagues have clear visibility of progress and outstanding actions.
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Person Specification
- Experience in PMO, people operations, HR operations, business operations, or a similar role. We also welcome candidates with strong potential who can show the organisation, judgement, and drive to grow into the role.
- High levels of ambition, energy, and resilience, consistent with the firm’s plans for growth.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, internally and externally, at all organisational levels.
- Enjoyment working in an entrepreneurial, commercial, high-performance environment.
- High levels of precision and presentational pride across all your work.
Working Location
At least four days per week in the firm’s Farringdon office, with attendance required when staff activities, engagement sessions, or other PMO-led activities are taking place.
Package
- Basic salary of £40-45k depending on expertise.
- Up to 20% bonus based on firm and individual performance.
- 27 days’ annual leave, excluding bank holidays, rising to 30 based on performance.
- Private medical and dental insurance.
- 4% pension contributions.
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