PMO Governance Manager

Summary: The PMO Governance Manager role is focused on establishing and maintaining governance standards within the Finance Change portfolio at Adecco. The position involves collaboration with various teams to ensure effective governance and quality assurance, while continuously reviewing and improving standards. The role requires strong coaching and communication skills to facilitate the consistent implementation of these standards across projects. This is a hybrid position based in Welwyn Garden City, initially for a duration of 6 months.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure consistent application of the Finance Change delivery methodology across programmes and projects within the portfolio.
• Conduct gate assurance reviews for portfolio governance approval.
• Perform health checks on projects to maintain agreed standards and report results.
• Design flexible governance structures that enable effective decision-making and control.
• Continuously review governance processes to adapt to a changing environment.
• Work with the program management team to maintain standards and implement new approaches.
• Regularly assess current practices and develop best practices.
• Develop training material and train stakeholders on new and revised ways of working.
• Collaborate with Project Managers and PMO Managers to ensure project artifacts meet agreed standards and are securely shared with stakeholders.
• Provide coaching and expertise in project management best practices, standards, and tools.

Key Skills:

• Programme and Portfolio management office experience, with understanding of PMO process, best practice Programme and Project delivery methods.
• Formal Portfolio / Programme / Project Management Qualification desirable (Such as P3O or MoP, MSP, APM) - preferable not mandatory.
• Self-starter with the ability to work autonomously.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent coaching, presentation and communication skills.
• Ability to manage moving priorities.
• Ability to confidently challenge decisions/data.
• Excellent knowledge and advanced user of Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft SharePoint, Teams and other collaboration tools.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Welwyn Garden City

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other