Summary: The PMO Professional role is focused on delivering PMO support services for complex customer contracts within Design and Delivery in Bristol. The position aims to mitigate risks, enhance delivery success, and boost customer satisfaction through effective governance and reporting. The role requires active SC clearance and offers a day rate of £550 inside IR35 for a duration of 3 months with potential for extension.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide PMO support services to complex customer contracts.
- Reduce risk to the business and improve delivery success rates.
- Ensure high-quality governance, reporting, and control across contracts.
- Define and operate a PMO catalogue of services.
- Produce decision-ready reporting for senior stakeholders using PMO tools.
- Identify improvements and simplify PMO processes.
- Manage stakeholder relationships effectively.
Key Skills:
- Experience in end-to-end PMO service delivery.
- Capability in delivery assurance and governance.
- Understanding of project and programme governance methodologies.
- Proficiency in PMO tools and data analysis.
- Stakeholder management skills.
- Microsoft 365 skills, including Excel and SharePoint.
- Ability to maintain strong relationships with stakeholders.
- Experience in complex, multi-stakeholder environments (desirable).
- Recognized qualifications such as P30, PRINCE2, or equivalent (desirable).
- Experience in the Defence industry (desirable).
Salary (Rate): £550 daily
City: Bristol
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Role: PMO Professional
Location: Bristol (Hybrid)
Duration: 3 months with extension
Day rate: £550 Inside IR35
Active SC clearance required due to project restrictions
Role overview:
The role is accountable for providing PMO support services to complex customer contracts within Design and Delivery. It helps reduce risk to the business, improve the probability of a successful delivery, and improve customer satisfaction. It ensures that we provide a mature set of services to the most deserving contracts, including governance, reporting, risk and issue, dependency and obligation management.
Skills & Experience:
- Proven experience supporting the end-to-end delivery of a PMO service, with clear standards, consistent execution, and measurable value to contract delivery.
- Capability in delivery assurance, ensuring high-quality governance, reporting, and control across multiple contracts or programmes.
- Experience defining and operating a clearly defined PMO catalogue of services.
- Understanding of and experience in delivering project and programme governance, with the ability to apply methodology pragmatically and at pace.
- Experience using PMO tools and data as the primary source of delivery insight, producing clear, decision-ready reporting for senior stakeholders.
- Experience in identifying improvements, simplifying PMO processes and introducing digital or automated solutions to improve efficiency and consistency.
- Stakeholder management skills, with the ability to identify areas that influence delivery and leadership communities.
- Microsoft 365 skills, including Excel, PowerPoint and use of SharePoint.
- Ability to maintain close connections and strong relationships with key stakeholders.
Desirable
- Experience operating PMO services in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
- An externally recognised qualification, such as P30, PRINCE2, MSP, PMQ or equivalent would be desirable.
- Proven ability to improve PMO ways of working, simplifying processes and introducing tools or automation.
- Experience working in the Defence industry
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