PMO Manager

What I’ll be doing – your accountabilities Skills required for the job

• Lead and inspire PMO team consisting of a mixture of dedicated and shared resources. Provide coaching and mentoring to drive performance
• Leading the PMO team to design new PMO services, roll out and embed. Manage PMO maturity plan and provide direction for the PMO team to continuously improve each service to flex and mature in line with the Programme Delivery
• Responsible for Executive level reporting that provides insights into the Programme
• Challenge the stus quo to drive more effective ways of working across the Programme
• Act as a centre of Excellence for the Programme, providing advice on Governance, Structure and roll out plans
• Strong influencing and stakeholder skills- you have the ability to work at Director/MD level and across a matrix environment
• Ability to lead and coach a team of PMO professionals
• Skilled in designing and embdeding governance accross multiple methodologies and the ability to flex to meet the demands of the Programme.
• Critical thinking skills- you look at the bigger picture and flex approach to reach outcome
• An externally recognised qualification, such as PRINCE2 or equivalent would be normally expected.

Experience you would be expected to have

• Significant experience in building out PMO environments in matrix organisations
• Experienced people manaager
• Significant experience of working in PMOs on large programmes
• Demonstratable experience across multiple PMO areas (Change/Demand/Risks/Planning/Resource/Finance)
• Agile/Waterfall experience
• Working alongside Leadership teams to support and direct the Programme
• Creating PMO teams from scratch or at least experience implementing new processes
• Experience in multiple projects across different workstreams currently managing 18 projects but 25 more in the pipeline
• Telco or IT infrastructure project experience
• Strong senior business management stakeholder management and reporting experience
• Good change experience
• Good in the establishment of process and project governance experience
• Ability to manage teams of junior and senior members