PMO Lead - Transformation Programme
Posted Today by Lorien
£600 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Kensington and Chelsea, UK
Summary: The PMO Lead will oversee the Programme Management Office for a significant Council Transformation Programme aimed at achieving over £100m in annual savings through extensive organizational changes. This role requires a seasoned professional to enhance PMO functions, manage governance, and ensure effective reporting and benefits realization across multiple workstreams. The position is based in London with hybrid working arrangements and is classified as inside IR35. The contract duration is six months.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and continuously improve the PMO function for a complex, multi-workstream transformation programme
- Own programme governance, including servicing senior boards and executive-level forums
- Maintain the integrated programme plan, tracking milestones, dependencies and resources across all workstreams
- Own portfolio-level benefits realisation, working closely with Finance and HR to track cashable and non-cashable savings
- Lead RAID management, ensuring risks, issues and dependencies are identified, managed and escalated appropriately
- Produce high-quality executive reporting for senior leaders and Members
- Lead programme assurance activity, including health checks, gate reviews and external audit support
- Champion a data-led, modern PMO, using digital tools and AI to automate reporting and improve insight
Key Skills:
- Leading or establishing a PMO for a complex transformation or portfolio
- Strong knowledge of programme and portfolio management methodologies (governance, RAID, benefits, assurance)
- Experience supporting senior governance boards and executive-level stakeholders
- Benefits management experience, including tracking savings against financial strategies
- Excellent analytical and reporting skills, with the ability to translate complexity for senior audiences
- Strong stakeholder management skills, able to influence without direct authority
- Experience using digital PMO tools, dashboards and reporting platforms
Salary (Rate): £600 per day
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
- PMO Lead - Transformation Programme
- 6 month duration
- Daily Rate: £600 per day (Inside IR35)
- Location: London (hybrid working)
The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced PMO Lead to lead the Programme Management Office for a large-scale, multi-year Council Transformation Programme. The programme spans multiple workstreams and is designed to deliver over £100m of annual savings alongside fundamental changes to how the organisation operates.
Key Responsibilities- Lead and continuously improve the PMO function for a complex, multi-workstream transformation programme
- Own programme governance, including servicing senior boards and executive-level forums
- Maintain the integrated programme plan, tracking milestones, dependencies and resources across all workstreams
- Own portfolio-level benefits realisation, working closely with Finance and HR to track cashable and non-cashable savings
- Lead RAID management, ensuring risks, issues and dependencies are identified, managed and escalated appropriately
- Produce high-quality executive reporting for senior leaders and Members
- Lead programme assurance activity, including health checks, gate reviews and external audit support
- Champion a data-led, modern PMO, using digital tools and AI to automate reporting and improve insight
You will be a confident, credible PMO professional with experience operating at portfolio or enterprise level, ideally within the public sector or a politically led organisation.
Essential experience includes:
- Leading or establishing a PMO for a complex transformation or portfolio
- Strong knowledge of programme and portfolio management methodologies (governance, RAID, benefits, assurance)
- Experience supporting senior governance boards and executive-level stakeholders
- Benefits management experience, including tracking savings against financial strategies
- Excellent analytical and reporting skills, with the ability to translate complexity for senior audiences
- Strong stakeholder management skills, able to influence without direct authority
- Experience using digital PMO tools, dashboards and reporting platforms
If you are available and interested, please apply today!
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
