Head of PMO

Job Description

Head of PMO | Hertfordshire & London & Remote | circa £100,000 + car/allowanceDoes working with a leading multidisciplinary organisation that currently employs over 3000 people across a variety of sectors where every day will bring exciting new challenges appeal to youIf soplease read on!BASICS:As the Head of PMO, you will own and co-ordinate the central portfolio / programme management office function and develop governance processes, to guide and control projects, ensuring gate criteria are applied.If you can manage and report on the portfolio plan with milestones, whilst feeding in project level information provided by Project and Programme Managers, and take responsibility for setting up a PMO framework based on ITIL wed like to hear from you.Additionally, your role will include taking oversight of the portfolio-level finances, leading on continuous improvement of portfolio governance and building comprehensive and meaningful reports and dashboards. Leaders who can assist the portfolio-wide resourceand demand planning and forecasting and manage a pool of resources including project managers, business analysts, developers, business change leads and trainers are likely to receive an immediate interview request.KEY TASKS:This job role will give you the opportunity to assume overall responsibility for the management and delivery of all projects and programmes; work with stakeholders and partners to identify and plan agreed programmes of work; have responsibility forthe management of all projects and programme risks, issues, dependencies, and assumptionsall whilst ensuring strategies and corrective actions are implemented to mitigate risks and resolve issues.Key to the role will be establishing programme and project budgets as part of the production of business casesand working with technical experts and strategic technology partners to identify opportunities for innovation and creating great experiences.Identifying, validating, and shaping the demand for digital products and developing effective insight into the stakeholder world, so that business partners/digital leads can undertake effective customer advocacy is also important.CONCLUSION:This is a great job opportunity giving you the platform to promote technology capabilities/innovation opportunities, to enable improvements for stakeholders, identify critical path items, milestones and interdependencies and act as the resourcing managerfor allocation of project manager & development resources - building the case for flexible resource as required.Heads of PMO who can play an active role as a member of the Digital Services Senior Leadership Team, ensure that any specialist needs such as information security, data protection, purchasing requirements and financial regulations are considered and observedas appropriate to the project deliverables, coupled with effective leadership and line management to the portfolio team will thrive in this role and should apply today.You will have the flexibility to work from home, as well as the London office and Hertfordshire office.For more information, contact the team at Jonothan Bosworth.VC_55_HPMO_SEWe are an equal opportunities employer, committed to diversity and inclusion. We are active anti-slavery advocates and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, colour, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability,genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic.

Keyskills :
PMOagileprojectsprogrammesproject management office