Pmo
Posted 3 days ago by 1767750016
£850 Per day
Inside
Onsite
Leeds
Summary: The PMO role in Leeds involves providing senior-level oversight and governance across complex programmes and portfolios, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives through robust project management and Agile methodologies. The position requires a minimum of 15 years of experience and entails leading project planning, stakeholder management, and risk mitigation. The PMO will act as a liaison between delivery teams and leadership, ensuring transparency and control throughout the project life cycle. This is a contract position for 6 months, requiring in-office presence 3 days a week.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end planning and organisation across multiple projects and programmes, defining clear objectives, delivery milestones, and success criteria
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans, timelines, and resource allocations to ensure efficient delivery
- Establish and enforce PMO governance frameworks, standards, and best practices
- Provide stakeholder management at senior and executive level, ensuring alignment, clear communication, and timely decision-making
- Drive Agile ways of working, supporting teams in Agile delivery while balancing governance and control
- Deliver clear, concise status reporting, dashboards, and portfolio insights to leadership
- Proactively manage risk, issues, and dependencies, implementing mitigation strategies to minimise delivery impact
- Act as a trusted advisor, resolving complex problems quickly to keep programmes on track
Key Skills:
- 15+ years' experience in PMO, project, or programme management roles
- Strong background in Project Management across large-scale or complex initiatives
- Proven expertise in Stakeholder Management, including senior and executive stakeholders
- Hands-on experience working within Agile environments (Scrum, SAFe, or hybrid models)
- Exceptional planning, organisation, and coordination skills
- Strong risk management and problem-solving capability
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence and align diverse teams
Salary (Rate): £850 daily
City: Leeds
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Other
PMO/Leeds/3 days per week/£850 Inside IR35/6 months
Role Title: PMO
Experience Required: Minimum 15 years
Location: Leeds - 3 Days Per week
Employment Type: Contract - 6 months
The PMO will provide senior-level oversight, governance, and strategic direction across complex programmes and portfolios. This role is responsible for ensuring projects are planned, executed, and delivered in alignment with organisational objectives, using robust project management and Agile methodologies. The PMO will act as a key liaison between delivery teams, stakeholders, and leadership, ensuring transparency, control, and consistency across the project life cycle.
Key Responsibilities- Lead end-to-end planning and organisation across multiple projects and programmes, defining clear objectives, delivery milestones, and success criteria
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans, timelines, and resource allocations to ensure efficient delivery
- Establish and enforce PMO governance frameworks, standards, and best practices
- Provide stakeholder management at senior and executive level, ensuring alignment, clear communication, and timely decision-making
- Drive Agile ways of working, supporting teams in Agile delivery while balancing governance and control
- Deliver clear, concise status reporting, dashboards, and portfolio insights to leadership
- Proactively manage risk, issues, and dependencies, implementing mitigation strategies to minimise delivery impact
- Act as a trusted advisor, resolving complex problems quickly to keep programmes on track
- 15+ years' experience in PMO, project, or programme management roles
- Strong background in Project Management across large-scale or complex initiatives
- Proven expertise in Stakeholder Management, including senior and executive stakeholders
- Hands-on experience working within Agile environments (Scrum, SAFe, or hybrid models)
- Exceptional planning, organisation, and coordination skills
- Strong risk management and problem-solving capability
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence and align diverse teams
Desirable
- Experience operating at portfolio or enterprise PMO level
- Exposure to large transformation or technology-driven programmes
PMO/Leeds/3 days per week/£850 Inside IR35/6 months
