PMO Director
Posted 1 week ago by Assystem, Switch On
£1,000 Per day
Undetermined
Undetermined
London
Summary: The PMO Director is tasked with establishing and leading the enterprise Project Management Office (PMO) to ensure strategic alignment and successful delivery of complex organizational programs. This role involves executive oversight of portfolio governance, program controls, and innovation in delivery practices. The PMO Director is also responsible for fostering collaboration across the organization and ensuring that change initiatives align with strategic objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and implement the PMO vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap.
- Ensure portfolio alignment with organizational strategy and investment priorities.
- Lead enterprise prioritization, portfolio planning, and demand management.
- Provide executive insight into portfolio health, dependencies, capacity, and risk exposure.
- Act as senior advisor to ExCo and Board on delivery confidence.
- Establish and oversee enterprise governance frameworks and stage-gate processes.
- Ensure robust cost, schedule, risk, and performance controls across programmes.
- Provide independent assurance and performance challenge.
- Maintain consistency of reporting standards, metrics, and controls across all portfolios.
- Oversee portfolio financial management and benefits tracking.
- Ensure business cases are robust, measurable, and aligned to value delivery.
- Monitor portfolio performance KPIs and corrective action plans.
- Drive continuous improvement in delivery predictability and maturity.
- Lead the operational PMO function including planning, reporting, governance administration, tooling, and resource management.
- Ensure effective demand management and enterprise resource capacity planning.
- Implement portfolio management systems and digital reporting solutions.
- Standardise processes and ensure scalable PMO services.
- Build organisational capability in project and programme delivery.
- Champion modern delivery approaches (Agile, hybrid, digital enablement).
- Drive innovation in planning, controls, reporting, and collaboration.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives and maturity uplift programmes.
- Oversee digital strategy for the PMO including tooling, data analytics, and automation.
- Ensure integration of portfolio systems and digital dashboards.
- Leverage data insights to improve decision-making and forecasting.
- Sponsor digital transformation initiatives that enhance delivery performance.
- Provide inspirational leadership to senior direct reports.
- Foster a high-performance, accountable, and collaborative delivery culture.
- Develop succession pipelines and capability frameworks.
- Model enterprise leadership behaviours and values.
Key Skills:
- Extensive experience in project management and PMO leadership.
- Strong understanding of governance frameworks and performance controls.
- Proven ability to manage portfolio financials and benefits realization.
- Expertise in modern delivery methodologies (Agile, hybrid).
- Experience with digital strategy and technology enablement.
- Strong leadership and team management skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
- Ability to drive continuous improvement and innovation.
Salary (Rate): £1,000/day
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Job Description
The PMO Director is responsible for establishing, leading, and evolving the enterprise Project Management Office (PMO) to ensure strategic alignment, governance excellence, portfolio visibility, and successful delivery of complex organisational programmes.The role provides executive oversight of portfolio governance, programme controls, operational PMO services, innovation in delivery practice, digital enablement, and cross-organisation collaboration. The PMO Director ensures that change initiatives are delivered predictably, efficiently, and in alignment with strategic objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Portfolio Leadership
- Define and implement the PMO vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap.
- Ensure portfolio alignment with organisational strategy and investment priorities.
- Lead enterprise prioritisation, portfolio planning, and demand management.
- Provide executive insight into portfolio health, dependencies, capacity, and risk exposure.
- Act as senior advisor to ExCo and Board on delivery confidence.
- Governance & Programme Controls
- Establish and oversee enterprise governance frameworks and stage-gate processes.
- Ensure robust cost, schedule, risk, and performance controls across programmes.
- Provide independent assurance and performance challenge.
- Maintain consistency of reporting standards, metrics, and controls across all portfolios.
- Portfolio Performance & Benefits Realisation
- Oversee portfolio financial management and benefits tracking.
- Ensure business cases are robust, measurable, and aligned to value delivery.
- Monitor portfolio performance KPIs and corrective action plans.
- Drive continuous improvement in delivery predictability and maturity.
- PMO Operations & Service Delivery
- Lead the operational PMO function including planning, reporting, governance administration, tooling, and resource management.
- Ensure effective demand management and enterprise resource capacity planning.
- Implement portfolio management systems and digital reporting solutions.
- Standardise processes and ensure scalable PMO services.
- Programme Excellence & Innovation
- Build organisational capability in project and programme delivery.
- Champion modern delivery approaches (Agile, hybrid, digital enablement).
- Drive innovation in planning, controls, reporting, and collaboration.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives and maturity uplift programmes.
- Digital & Technology Enablement
- Oversee digital strategy for the PMO including tooling, data analytics, and automation.
- Ensure integration of portfolio systems and digital dashboards.
- Leverage data insights to improve decision-making and forecasting.
- Sponsor digital transformation initiatives that enhance delivery performance.
- Leadership & Culture
- Provide inspirational leadership to senior direct reports.
- Foster a high-performance, accountable, and collaborative delivery culture.
- Develop succession pipelines and capability frameworks.
- Model enterprise leadership behaviours and values.
Direct Reports
The PMO Director will directly manage:
- Head of Programme Controls
- Accountable for enterprise cost control, scheduling, risk management, performance reporting, and assurance frameworks.
- Head of EPR Fleet Collaboration
- Leads cross-programme coordination and collaboration across the EPR fleet portfolio, ensuring integration, knowledge sharing, and alignment of delivery practices.
- Head of PMO Operations
- Responsible for PMO service delivery, governance administration, reporting, portfolio systems, and resource management processes.
- Head of Programme Excellence and Innovation
- Drives delivery capability development, methodology enhancement, maturity uplift, and innovation across project and programme practices.
- Digital Director
- Leads digital strategy, portfolio tools, automation, analytics, and digital transformation initiatives that enable portfolio performance.
Additional Information
Benefits include:
- Pension scheme (8% company contribution / 4% personal contribution)
- 25 days’ paid annual leave + bank holidays + option to buy or sell days
- Professional fees reimbursed
- Flexible working
- Employee referral scheme
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