Senior PMO Manager
6 month contract
Our retail client is looking for a Senior PMO Managers to join them for a 6 month contract initially.
Primary accountabilities and deliverables
- Set clear intent, direction and guardrails for your team to achieve the required outcomes aligned to the Partnership and business area strategy
- Empower and support teams to make decisions and resolve challenges in line with the strategy for the business.
- As a co-owner, actively share the responsibilities of ownership and support colleagues to have a voice in our business.
- Invest in your personal and professional development, utilising the opportunities available to you to develop your skills and capabilities.
- Engage with your function, supporting the business lead to continuously develop and improve it. Promoting the practice by continuously and consistently communicating to stakeholders, SMEs and influencers etc.
- Demonstrate a flexible agile approach to working, joining outcomes as needed and/or supporting colleagues to secure the success of the outcome.
- Using agreed frameworks, establish appropriate governance and control
- Escalate and identify potential solutions to key programme / sub-portfolio risks and issues for resolution with the delivery leadership team.
- Generate insight on the delivery of your programme / delivery portfolio through an understanding of dependencies, including a perspective on value generation, to enable appropriate decisions to be made in relation to the portfolio.
- Within agreed frameworks, implement appropriate financial controls for your programme / sub-portfolio to allow early identification of potential over/underspend and recommendations for action.
- Promote a 'best in class' PMO culture; identify opportunities for process and procedural improvement and contribute to regular health checks for the Practice.
- Build the professionalism and maturity of the specialism by working with the PMO Lead, taking the lead on specific elements of this work.
Key skills
- PMO, Portfolio, Programme or Project Management qualifications e.g. P3O, AIPMO, MSP, Prince 2 or equivalent
- Experience of working in a PMO team across complex projects / programmes
- Experience of using PPM tools (e.g. Planview or Clarity)
- Experience of leading teams
- Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
To apply for this opportunity please submit your CV.
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