Project Management Officer

Summary: The Portfolio PMO Manager role involves overseeing the enterprise portfolio of initiatives for a global insurance broker, ensuring alignment with organizational strategy and priorities. The position requires managing portfolio planning, performance tracking, and governance while collaborating with senior leadership and functional teams. The role is contract-based and operates within an inside IR35 framework, emphasizing compliance and effective communication across various stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the enterprise portfolio of initiatives, ensuring alignment with organisational strategy, priorities, and funding constraints.
• Support portfolio planning, prioritisation, demand management, and capacity planning processes.
• Track portfolio-level performance, benefits realisation, risks, and dependencies.
• Facilitate portfolio reviews and governance forums with senior leadership.
• Define, implement, and continuously improve PMO frameworks, methodologies, tools, and best practices.
• Ensure consistent application of project and program management standards across the organisation.
• Establish and maintain portfolio-level dashboards, KPIs, and reporting cadence.
• Drive compliance with governance, financial, and risk management requirements.
• Support portfolio budgeting, forecasting, and financial tracking in partnership with Finance.
• Monitor investment performance, cost vs. benefit, and return on investment (ROI).
• Collaborate with functional leaders to optimise resource utilisation and capacity.
• Act as a trusted advisor to executives and senior stakeholders on portfolio health and decision-making.
• Communicate portfolio status, insights, and recommendations clearly and concisely.
• Build strong relationships across business, IT, and delivery teams.

Key Skills:

• Experience in PMO, portfolio management, program management, or related roles.
• Demonstrated experience managing or supporting enterprise-level project portfolios.
• Strong understanding of project, program, and portfolio management frameworks (e.g., PMO, PPM).
• Experience with portfolio reporting, governance, and executive-level communication.
• Experience working in matrixed or complex organisational environments.
• Exposure to Agile, hybrid, and traditional delivery models.
• Experience with portfolio management tools (e.g., Clarity, Planview, Jira Align, MS Project Online).

Salary (Rate): £70.00/hr

City: London Area

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other