PMO Lead – Hybrid/Swindon Are you an experienced PMO professional with a background in IT, Construction, or both?
Do you thrive in complex, change-driven environments, ensuring governance, reporting, and benefits management are optimised for success?
This is an opportunity to lead and shape PMO best practices in a well-respected organisation that is undergoing a major restructuring.
If you are looking for a PMO role which will give you a great challenge and where you can make a major impact, then look no further!
The Role As a PMO Lead, you will play a critical role in supporting programme delivery by implementing and managing a best-practice PMO framework. You will ensure strong governance, reporting, and risk management while working closely with Programme Managers, senior stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to drive efficiency, standardisation, and process enhancement. You will ensure the smooth running of programmes, giving the best possible chance to deliver to time, quality and cost, so that benefits can be ultimately realised.
This role offers a high level of autonomy and is ideal for someone who can take ownership, drive change, and deliver without heavy oversight.
Key Responsibilities- Develop and maintain a best-practice PMO framework, ensuring governance, reporting, and risk management align with organisational standards
- Support Programme Managers and Workstream Leads to ensure programmes are delivered on time, within budget, and to a high standard
- Enhance and standardise processes to improve programme efficiency, reporting, and benefits realisation
- Coordinate governance activities, including scheduling, preparing documentation, and ensuring compliance with governance frameworks
- Manage RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) processes, ensuring logs are maintained and actions are followed up
- Ensure financial reporting and tracking are accurate and aligned with programme objectives
- Act as a key liaison between business partners, stakeholders, and project teams, ensuring effective communication and alignment
What We’re Looking For- Strong PMO experience in IT, Construction, or both, with a solid understanding of governance, reporting, risk management, and benefits realisation
- Proven ability to develop and implement PMO best practices that drive efficiency and accountability
- Experience in change-driven environments, ideally where organisations have undergone restructuring or transformation
- Not-for-profit experience is a plus, with an understanding of the pace and constraints in such environments
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage with senior leaders and influence decision-making
- Proactive, self-sufficient, and able to hit the ground running—this role requires someone who can take ownership and deliver results
- An understanding of Prince2 and ideally Agile
- High attention to detail, strong reporting and analytical skills, and experience managing programme financials
- Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Practitioner certification (or equivalent) preferred
Why Join?- Opportunity to play a key role in shaping and driving PMO excellence within an evolving organisations
- Work in a not-for-profit organisation that has a true purpose, and makes a difference
- A high-impact, autonomous PMO role with ownership and influence
- Collaborate with experienced professionals in programme delivery and governance
- Access excellent training and development to take your career forward
- Lots of flexibility in a hybrid role that only requires you to visit the office once a week (flexible hours available too)
- Salary range from £44,000-£48,400, plus excellent benefits including up to 10% matched Pension, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (rising to 28 after 3 years), subscriptions to professional bodies, retail discounts and enhanced family leave
If you are interested in this PMO Lead opportunity, apply now or get in touch for more details. Interviews will be taking place in early April.
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