Project Management Officer
Posted 1 week ago by Opus Recruitment Solutions
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
Exeter, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The PMO Manager role involves leading and managing PMO activities for a large-scale Digital Transformation programme in Exeter. The position requires strong stakeholder management skills and experience in technology-driven environments. The successful candidate will oversee governance, reporting, and delivery coordination across multiple workstreams. This is a contract position for an initial 6 months, classified as inside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage PMO activities across ongoing digital transformation initiatives
- Oversee governance, reporting, planning, and programme controls
- Manage and maintain RAID logs, ensuring risks and issues are tracked and mitigated effectively
- Coordinate cross-functional delivery activities across technical and business teams
- Engage with senior stakeholders to provide clear programme visibility and status reporting
- Support resource planning, dependencies, and delivery timelines
- Ensure PMO best practices, standards, and processes are consistently applied
- Manage and mentor PMO team members where required
Key Skills:
- Minimum 5 years’ experience working within PMO functions
- Proven experience managing sizeable PMO teams
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience supporting large-scale Digital Transformation programmes
- Previous experience working alongside technical teams, ideally DevOps engineers
- Strong expertise in RAID log management and programme governance
- Excellent organisational and coordination skills
- Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced delivery environments
- Experience within Agile or hybrid delivery environments (desirable)
- Familiarity with project delivery tools such as Jira, Confluence, MS Project, or similar (desirable)
- Previous experience within enterprise IT or technology transformation programmes (desirable)
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Exeter
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Job: PMO Manager
Location: Exeter, UK (Hybrid – 2 Days On-site per Week)
Work Type: Contract – Initial 6 Months (Inside IR35)
Introduction
We are currently seeking an experienced PMO Manager to support a large-scale Digital Transformation programme for our client based in Exeter. This is an exciting opportunity for a seasoned PMO professional with strong stakeholder management capabilities and experience working within technology-driven environments. The successful candidate will play a key role in driving PMO governance, programme reporting, RAID management, and delivery coordination across multiple workstreams, working closely with senior stakeholders and technical teams including DevOps engineers.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage PMO activities across ongoing digital transformation initiatives
- Oversee governance, reporting, planning, and programme controls
- Manage and maintain RAID logs, ensuring risks and issues are tracked and mitigated effectively
- Coordinate cross-functional delivery activities across technical and business teams
- Engage with senior stakeholders to provide clear programme visibility and status reporting
- Support resource planning, dependencies, and delivery timelines
- Ensure PMO best practices, standards, and processes are consistently applied
- Manage and mentor PMO team members where required
Required Experience & Skills
- Minimum 5 years’ experience working within PMO functions
- Proven experience managing sizeable PMO teams
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience supporting large-scale Digital Transformation programmes
- Previous experience working alongside technical teams, ideally DevOps engineers
- Strong expertise in RAID log management and programme governance
- Excellent organisational and coordination skills
- Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced delivery environments
Desirable
- Experience within Agile or hybrid delivery environments
- Familiarity with project delivery tools such as Jira, Confluence, MS Project, or similar
- Previous experience within enterprise IT or technology transformation programmes
Working Arrangement
Hybrid working model – 2 days per week on-site in Exeter
Initial 6-month contract
Inside IR35
If you are an experienced PMO Manager with a strong background in digital and technology transformation programmes, we would be keen to hear from you.