Durham Professional Services is delighted to be working with our client to recruit a PMO Manager on an initial 12 months FTC basis located in Glasgow. This role will play a central role in enhancing and leading the PMO team through the execution of the Transformation Roadmap to deliver the clients 2025 Strategy.
This is a key role which spans multiple Directorates and Programmes, advising, challenging, supporting and providing insights on delivery approach, methodology, outcomes and effective governance. Our client currently has an experienced multi-disciplined team of analysts focussing on benefits, planning (including demand), finance, resourcing, quality, project and strategic reporting among others.
Day to Day Activities
- Responsible for a portfolio size of approximately £20M per year across circa 40 projects
- Work with stakeholders across all levels; directly tasked by Head of Portfolio Delivery, working with Stakeholders across the business.
- Coach and mentor the Senior PMO Analysts and coach Project Managers within the directorate. Understand the wider objectives of the portfolio and programmes, have credibility within the environment and be able to influence others.
- Accountable for the monthly, quarterly, and annual analyses, budget monitoring and re-forecasting and reporting on Portfolio performance
- Own and manage on behalf of the directorate the departmental shared resource pool and capacity plan, highlighting any resource short-falls and spare capacity and recommending management strategies.
- Maintain accurate records, Management Information and indicators regarding client wide change portfolio performance to enable insightful, pro-active senior manager reporting and decision making. Design, challenge and agree Management dashboards.
- Identify opportunities for improvement to processes and practices, to improve portfolio workflow and more effective delivery.
The Person
The PMO manager needs to be a great communicator, an innovative thinker and be able to challenge the approach to deliver in a more agile manner whilst keeping the integrity of the strategy at the forefront.
If you have a proven track record of taking a PMO team on an agile maturity journey and delivering tangible value add improvements through PMO to your organisation, this could be the role for you.
- Significant experience of working in a project/programme/portfolio environment as either senior Project Manager or Project or Programme Manager or Programme Office Manager
- Recent experience of working on larger scale complex projects or programmes.
- Experience of planning, managing and organizing resources within short / medium timescales within the overall policy framework.
- Strong people and Stakeholder management skills
- Formally trained in recognised Project Management methodology, such as Prince 2, or can demonstrate an equivalent level of experience and certified in recognised PMO management methodology.
- Highly competent with Microsoft Office Suite; Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Project
- Excellent attention to detail and with the ability to ensure high quality and consistency of output.
- Demonstrate an innovative approach to problem solving including identifying opportunities for development and improvement.
- Excellent communication, influencing and workshop facilitation skills and possess the expertise to work with groups to build consensus and resolve conflict.
- Demonstrable expertise in preparing written communication.
- In depth, Centre of Excellence level understanding of risk management, dependency management, benefits management and financial and budget management as it applies to a project, programme and portfolio of change.
- Conversant with best practice methodologies with the ability to take a pragmatic approach to practical application.
- Exceptionally skilled in working with large amounts of information to provide succinct analysis, spotting and communicating trending information.
- Excellent understanding of the P3M3 maturity model and its application
- Expert level understanding and experience of the role of PMO within a project/programme/portfolio environment
The Perks
Core benefits including private healthcare, pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme and Nudge (a financial wellbeing tool)
Customisable benefits including health assessments, healthcare cash plan, dental cover, gadget insurance and much, much more
Flexible working arrangements to support work/life balance ( UK offices are currently closed until August 2021 so all work is being carried out 100% remotely)
To apply for this role send your CV to mark@durhamlimited.com or call 0141 244 0246