Title: PMO Manager
Recruitment Partner: Noaman Hussain
Location: Nottingham
About the role
The Portfolio Management Office (PMO) is part of the IT Planning and Governance function within International Technology & Advanced Analytics (IT2A). This department sets the standards and governs the portfolio of projects delivered within IT2A.Your responsibilities: Oversee and evolve the resource management process:
- improving the processes and underpinning reporting that ensures a clear and accurate view of our resources
- working with project managers to improve the accuracy of resource forecasting
- working with line managers to establish best practice in the management of project resources, using our portfolio planning tool (KeyedIn) to supply resources and to monitor upcoming demand.
- working with our partners to develop an organized supply of quality resources to fulfil project demand.
- Managing programs to lead best practice and increase capabilities across the Project Management community. For example, risk and issue management, planning and estimation, project financial management, stakeholder management. Help develop training materials and deliver training where required.
- Planning, preparing and running governance bodies to ensure the health of the portfolio of projects is clear for senior leaders, and financial information is tracked accurately across all projects. Highlighting concerns and focusing senior management time where it is most required.
- Managing daily relationships with resource partners to ensure the smooth and fast supply of quality resources to meet demands.
- Facilitate portfolio planning reviews with senior stakeholders. Identify actions and ensure these are followed through to completion
- Contribute towards new and improved existing internal portfolio management office governance, planning and resourcing processes and ways of working to ensure the services provided by the function are effective and value adding to the organisation.
What you'll need to have
- Experience of delivering one or more central PMO services to multiple delivery teams or of managing the end-to-end delivery of complex IT projects
- Experience of IT project delivery frameworks and processes
- Demonstrable stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Expert data analysis, problem solving and interpretation skills, including proficiency with MS Excel.
- Proven track record of attention to detail capabilities
It would be great if you also have
- Experience leading multi-national teams, with mixed employment types
- Experience managing projects with a team comprised of onshore and offshore resources
- Experience managing and governing budgets
- Experience of a retail organisation
- Experience of processes in relevant departments (e.g. portfolio planning, enterprise resource management, quality assurance)
- Agile scrum master or product owner experience and accreditation
- Project management qualification, e.g. APMP, Prince2, MSP
- Experience with analytical tools and applications (e.g. PowerBI)
Our benefits
- Retirement Savings Plan
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Generous employee discounts
- Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
- Flexible benefits scheme including holiday buying, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and more.
- Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.
We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you - find out more at rewards. Please note, any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by WBA and may not be accurate.
What's next
If your application is successful, our recruitment team will be in touch to arrange an interview and to answer any initial questions you have. If you have not been successful on this occasion, you will be notified by email.Where a role is advertised as full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options during the application process. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide
reasonable adjustments
to help you to be at your best.This role requires you to complete a
Pre-employment check
after receiving an offer. Depending on your location you will be asked to submit either a DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service), PVG (Protection of Vulnerable groups) or an Access NI Check.We are a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.#LI-Onsite