Delivery Assurance/PMO Lead

Summary: The Delivery Assurance/PMO Lead role requires an experienced professional to oversee the delivery management and governance of a complex, multi-workstream programme. The candidate will align planning activities, manage risks and dependencies, and support senior stakeholders to ensure successful delivery against objectives. This position combines strategic oversight with hands-on support, reporting to senior leadership and contributing to overall programme success.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain an integrated programme milestone-level schedule across multiple workstreams.
• Track and manage programme critical path, cross-functional dependencies, and milestones.
• Provide visibility and alignment of projects and change initiatives, ensuring mutual impacts are identified and managed.
• Maintain central delivery trackers and schedule key engagement events.
• Work closely with senior stakeholders to ensure alignment and awareness across business and technical domains.
• Develop high-quality, C-level communication materials (dashboards, packs, reports).
• Support programme leadership with insights, risk escalations, and decision-making inputs.
• Lead strategic risk planning activities with various stakeholder groups.
• Maintain a consolidated risk register and update key delivery artefacts regularly.
• Proactively identify and resolve planning issues and delivery blockers.
• Run periodic plan health checks and assurance reviews to identify delivery risks.
• Conduct delivery audits and produce delivery metrics to support governance.
• Identify and recommend process improvements to drive planning maturity and execution discipline.
• Mentor and support workstream leads and project managers to improve planning capability and delivery confidence.
• Conduct workshops to address planning gaps and improve delivery maturity.
• Lead deep-dive reviews on high-risk or underperforming areas to clear critical dependencies and unlock progress.

Key Skills:

• Proven experience leading PMO functions or complex programme delivery in Matrix environments.
• Deep expertise in integrated planning, scheduling, and critical path analysis.
• Strong understanding of portfolio alignment and enterprise change impact management.
• Ability to build strong relationships with senior stakeholders and executive sponsors.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience preparing and presenting content for governance forums and C-suite.
• Strong knowledge of delivery assurance practices, PMO controls, and audit processes.
• Proficient in identifying strategic and operational risks, and managing issues to resolution.
• Advanced skills in project and programme planning tools (e.g., MS Project, Primavera).
• Experience using collaboration and reporting tools (e.g., PowerPoint, Excel, Power BI, SharePoint, JIRA).
• High attention to detail and strong analytical thinking.
• Self-starter with a proactive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Mentoring and coaching experience, particularly in elevating PMO and planning maturity.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other