PMO Lead

PMO Lead 
Hybrid – Northampton – 2 days per week on-site 
Day Rate up to £425 Inside IR35
Around 8 Months 

What you will be doing as PMO Lead:

• Developing, implementing & embedding PMO standards across the programme phases, maintaining and managing initiative documentation and facilitating key governance 
• Supporting the production of Portfolio level forum papers, agendas, and various reports and taking and managing actions and minutes at Portfolio level governance meetings
• Assisting with ensuring workstreams and projects have the relevant documentation, plans and RAIDs in place, and maintained in a timely manner at the right quality
• Being responsible for determining, monitoring and managing workforce and financial requirements, drawing insights from available information to inform daily delivery
• Assessing risk, including the tracking of thematic issues, early identification, and management of RAIDs; and completing a Delivered Risk Assessment (DRA)
• Tracking outcomes, ensuring that planned outputs deliver the agreed outcomes and remain relevant; through provision of MI and estimating, scheduling and planning activity
• Supporting the development and managing integrated programme plans based on source data with maintaining overall plan structure and integrity
• Developing and managing a centralised Change control process, ensuring the business case is updated and managed through appropriate governance

Skills you will need:

• Demonstrable PMO experience, working on business driven initiatives with cross functional delivery impact with experience of delivering PMO services across a portfolio of projects
• Excellent communication, verbal and written, interpersonal and stakeholder management skills with the ability to work with and present to senior stakeholders
• Excellent PC skills, including Excel, PowerPoint and Word, MS Project and Visio, ability to master and navigate new subject domains quickly
• Experience collating cross workstream plans and maintaining central integrated plans with execution tracking and analysis
• Ability to work across multiple sub-teams, divisions and geography, with excellent team working skills, including working effectively within a remote team
• Ability to identify ‘hidden’ delivery issues and proactively escalate items for resolution to reduce programme execution risk
• Broad knowledge of Group operating structure, Functions, and their purpose/scope (Operations/Technology/ Treasury/Risk/HR/etc)
• Previous experience of strategic change programmes