Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate and support project / programme planning, including development of robust project plans, identification of key milestones, dependencies, critical path, risks, and assumptions, ensuring planning standards are followed.
• Effective forward planning of own (and teams’ activities where appropriate) to support delivery, creating visibility of a clear plan, identifying risks and issues for mitigation and re-prioritisation of work with agreement and negotiation with key stakeholders.
• Proactive development and/or coordination of key management information packs and reports on an ongoing basis to support the monthly governance cycle. Ensuring the information is appropriately pitched for the audience.
• Active identification, monitoring, and progressing of project / programme / Delivery Centre risks, ensuring the Change Management Framework Standards are adopted for their effective management, as well as challenging accuracy and completeness. Identifying appropriate risks for escalation.
• Operate an effective issue management process ensuring issues are identified, recorded in a timely manner with owners and resolution actions in place for and monitored until close out. Identifying appropriate issues for escalation.
• Drive effective resource management ensuring resource plans are maintained and resource gaps escalated in a timely manner to drive effective mitigation actions. Ensure own team resources are managed effectively through regular supply and demand analysis to cover project demand and maximum recharge to projects. Carrying out recruitment activities for own area and supporting other PMO Managers across sites.
• Proactive management of costs, through accurate forecasting (where applicable) and review of monthly spend, including payment of invoices (where relevant). Challenging stakeholders as required and working closely with Finance Teams to manage risks and offsets effectively.
• Ensure project benefits, both financial and non-financial, are captured and tracked throughout the project life cycle.
• Set up and maintain appropriate Documentation/Configuration Management systems following the necessary framework standards.
• Facilitate identification, awareness, and monitoring of key dependencies (both internal and external), assumptions, and constraints impacting the project, programme, sub-portfolio / portfolio, escalating any risks or issues to the appropriate stakeholder within project management.
• Demonstrate understanding and control of key scorecard metrics within the scope of own area (project / programme / sub-portfolio / portfolio), identifying synergies across the portfolio (as required).
• Managing conflicting priorities for self and team at all times, and communicating clearly across the project and sub-portfolio where priorities and interests may be in conflict.
• Ensuring Governance and controls are put in place and maintained through all stages of delivery.
• Driving continuous improvement across the portfolio of change.
• Managing support resource demand across a sub-portfolio of projects to offer value to the portfolio through defining efficient project support levels within a cost-pressured environment.
• Support Change Delivery function as directed to maintain and continually improve upon the processes, procedures, and standards required to operate a robust, yet cost-effective governance and control framework.
• Support periodic project framework reviews to ensure the project/programme governance and controls reflect best practice.
• Operates within established frameworks, standards, and processes.
• Line manage PMO Analysts, demonstrating leadership behaviors, providing day-to-day support (as required), regular one-to-ones, setting annual objectives, evaluating performance on an ongoing basis with appropriate feedback, agreeing, and supporting completion of robust development plans and training.

Essential

• PMO experience

Desirable

• A-Level / Advanced Higher (or equivalent)
• Prince2 / APM - Practitioner

What We’re Looking For

We want to hire the whole version of you.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

We’re reviewing applications as they come in and may close this role before the closing date, so apply early to avoid missing out.

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