Senior PMO Lead

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