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- Implementation and Reporting: Enforcing central PMO processes, preparing portfolio status reports, RAID logs, and dashboards.
- RAID Coordination: Managing risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies (RAID) logs, including forum alignment and classification.
- Planning and Analysis: Supporting project/programme planning, financial tracking, and "what-if" analysis for central PMO challenges.
- Governance and Documentation: Drafting/reviewing deliverables for compliance, maintaining document controls, and creating minutes and tailored management information (MI).
- Financial Oversight: Maintaining financial registers, tracking forecasts vs. actuals, and escalating budget issues when needed.
- Toolset Management: Ensuring accurate tracking in Planview or equivalent tools.
- Training and Onboarding: Managing training schedules for new team members with central PMO SMEs.
- Continuous Improvement: Enhancing project management standards, tools, and methods, and leading small improvement projects.
- PMO Leadership: 5+ years in a Portfolio PMO Lead role or equivalent, establishing functions and defining standards.
- Tools Expertise: Planview: Proficient user with knowledge of data models and handling large datasets. Excel: Intermediate skills for manipulating data and creating dashboards. Oracle Financials: Experience with Payables module. Power BI: Familiarity with equivalent reporting tools. MS Office Suite: Intermediate in PowerPoint, Word, Visio, and SharePoint.
- Strong understanding of Waterfall delivery, RAID log management, financial/resource management, and project lifecycle requirements.
- Experience defining and implementing project management frameworks aligned with policies.
- Skilled in managing baselines, scope, plans, budgets, and project documentation.
- Budget management expertise, including structuring financials across programs.
- Effective in influencing adherence to project lifecycles and documentation standards.
- Collaboration: Experienced in supporting working groups/steering committees, including minute-taking and structured reporting.
- Preferred: Familiarity with hybrid delivery approaches (Waterfall, Agile, and Prince2 Agile) and balancing structured reporting with Agile flexibility.
- £120,000 basic salary
- 20% bonus
- Hybrid – 3 days per week in London
- Private medical
- Excellent pension (up to 12%)
- Additional excellent lifestyle, wealth and wellbeing benefits
