Project Management Officer

Senior PMO Lead – Contract

Location: Hybrid – 3 days per week on-site (no exceptions) Minimum 2 days in Welwyn Garden City and 1 day in Farringdon, London, OR 3 days in Welwyn Garden City

Contract Duration: 12–18 months

Day Rate: Competitive (Inside IR35)

Start Date: ASAP / Immediate Start Preferred

Overview

We are seeking a highly capable and hands-on Senior PMO Lead to join a strategic Data, Reporting, Tooling & Quality Assurance team that directly supports the PPMO function. This team’s customer is the PPMO, which oversees a vast portfolio comprising 15 programmes and over 200 projects — a truly large-scale and complex delivery environment. The Senior PMO Lead will play a critical role in improving the tooling, reporting, and process automation that enhances the PPMO’s service delivery, driving maturity and effectiveness across this extensive portfolio of work. This is a multidimensional role covering governance, tooling, reporting, automation, SharePoint, and collaboration, while also requiring the ability to project manage change, create roadmaps, and facilitate delivery. You will be a key driver of change maturity, working closely with senior stakeholders across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Portfolio Reporting, Dashboards & Insights
• Act as the Tableau SME , developing dashboards for:
• Resource management and planning
• Budget and financial tracking
• Delivery milestones and timelines
• RAID logs and governance compliance
• Source and visualise data from Planview , Jira , and other PPM tools
• Provide stakeholders with high-quality, actionable insights that support the PPMO’s governance and decision-making
• Tooling, Automation & Enablement
• Serve as the tooling lead across Planview , Aha! , Jira , or similar platforms
• Automate manual and time-consuming processes using Power Automate and Microsoft 365 tools
• Standardise tool usage and coach delivery teams in best practices
• Champion continuous improvement and tool optimisation to enhance the PPMO team’s service offerings
• SharePoint Ownership & Development
• Lead the refresh, consolidation, and development of SharePoint sites used across the portfolio
• Improve site structure, content management, permissions, and usability
• Facilitate better collaboration and knowledge sharing via modern SharePoint design
• Governance, Assurance & Change Facilitation
• Own and enhance PPM standards (RAID, benefits management, change control, etc.)
• Conduct assurance checks and track portfolio compliance
• Create and maintain delivery roadmaps
• Initiate and manage change activities , working with project and portfolio leads
• Support project delivery and portfolio change through light-touch project management activity
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Liaise with delivery teams, business owners and exec sponsors to align on standards and performance
• Promote adoption of tooling, automation and governance practices
• Act as a trusted advisor on tooling, reporting and PPM maturity to help the PPMO improve their service delivery

Essential Skills and Experience

• Proven experience as a Senior PMO Lead , Senior PMO Manager , or similar governance/change delivery role
• Strong knowledge of Planview , Aha! , Jira , or equivalent PPM tools
• Expert-level Tableau experience – designing dashboards across finance, resource, RAID, delivery metrics
• Advanced Power Automate and Microsoft 365 automation experience
• Deep SharePoint development capability – site refresh, consolidation, governance and UX
• Experience creating roadmaps and facilitating change across portfolios
• Skilled in light-touch project management to enable delivery
• Understanding of Agile and/or PRINCE2 delivery methodologies
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills

Desirable Experience

• Experience in large-scale change or transformation within enterprise environments
• Background in finance, data, or reporting-heavy portfolios
• Familiarity with knowledge management, audit, or compliance
• Exposure to continuous improvement and Lean principles within a PMO or delivery function

Working Pattern

On-site presence is mandatory – no exceptions. You must be able to work: 2 days per week in Welwyn Garden City and 1 day in Farringdon, London , OR 3 days per week in Welwyn Garden City

What’s on Offer

Long-term contract (12–18 months) in a visible and impactful PMO leadership role supporting a major PPMO function with huge portfolio responsibility

Competitive day rate ( Inside IR35 )

Opportunity to shape tools, reporting, SharePoint and automation across a large, complex change portfolio

Hybrid working with a collaborative and delivery-focused team