PMO Lead (Life Moments)
Posted 1 week ago by Square One Resources
£350 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Northampton, Northamptonshire, UK
Summary: The PMO Lead (Life Moments) role involves overseeing the portfolio management team to ensure successful project delivery aligned with strategic objectives. This position requires strong governance and control adherence while facilitating effective communication among stakeholders. The role is based in Northampton and offers a hybrid working arrangement for an initial three-month contract with potential for extension. Candidates must have a robust PMO background and experience leading teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the portfolio management team in delivering successful projects aligned with strategic objectives.
- Facilitate portfolio prioritisation and ensure compliance with the established control framework.
- Support effective governance of the portfolio and ensure timely executive reporting.
- Monitor portfolio performance and report on status to senior management and stakeholders.
- Manage the portfolio Book of Work, prioritising change initiatives and dependencies.
- Oversee change delivery to ensure alignment with policies and standards.
- Review, manage, and escalate portfolio risks and issues.
- Engage and influence stakeholders for effective portfolio management.
- Empower portfolio management resources and drive accountability and transparency.
- Provide best practice guidance and expertise in controls and governance.
- Strong PMO background (9+ years).
- Proven experience leading teams of 8-10 members.
- Only UK based candidates local to Northampton due to on-site hybrid requirements.
Key Skills:
- Strong PMO background with 9+ years of experience.
- Proven leadership experience managing teams of 8-10 members.
- Expertise in portfolio management processes and governance.
- Ability to facilitate effective communication among stakeholders.
- Experience in monitoring portfolio performance and reporting.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Knowledge of control frameworks and compliance standards.
- Ability to engage and influence stakeholders effectively.
- Experience in change management and delivery oversight.
- Data-driven decision-making skills.
- Local to Northampton for hybrid working requirements.
Salary (Rate): £350 per day
City: Northampton
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Consulting
Job Title: PMO Lead (Life Moments)
Location: Northampton (Hybrid)
Salary/Rate: up to £350 per day
Start Date: 30/06/25
Job Type: Initial 3 month contract + potential extension
Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading consultancy clients! They are currently looking for a Lead PMO in Life Moments to join their team for an initial three-month contract.
Job Responsibilities/Skills required
- You will be responsible for supporting the portfolio management team in the delivery of successful projects, while ensuring that portfolio management processes and practices are aligned with controls and governance standards and that projects are aligned with the organisation's strategic objectives.
- Facilitate portfolio prioritisation, ensuring the portfolio is compliant with the established control framework, including oversight of controls and standards.
- Support the effective governance of the portfolio, helping establish and operate effective Portfolio Governance that enables quality, data driven decision making, ensuring executive reporting is fit for purpose and timely.
- Monitor portfolio performance, including tracking of programme and project progress, identification of thematic portfolio risks and issues, and reporting on portfolio status to senior management and key stakeholders.
- Facilitate the management of the portfolio Book of Work, prioritisation and dependencies of change initiatives, considering factors like resource availability, stakeholder buy-in, and potential risks.
- Oversight of change delivery to ensure alignment with relevant policies and standards, driving consistent, robust controls data; monitoring indicators of control adherence, acting to remediate any weaknesses in the controls; and identifying and implementing actions to drive greater maturity against key control indicators.
- Review, resolve, manage and escalate portfolio risks and issues, challenging where appropriate and actively supporting the resolution of variances as necessary.
- Engage and influence all stakeholders to help them to understand their responsibilities and fulfil them effectively through clear, timely communication and well facilitated portfolio management processes.
- Support an environment of effective delivery by empowering portfolio management resources, utilising data led thinking to inform decisions, leverage expertise, and drive accountability and transparency.
- Operate as a source of best practice guidance and expertise, to ensure consistent excellence around controls, and governance (including training) is Embedded across the portfolio.
- Strong PMO background (9+ years)
- Proven experience leading teams of 8-10 members
- Only UK based candidates local to Northampton due to on-site hybrid requirements.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.
Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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