Delivery Assurance/PMO Lead

JR United Kingdom; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Delivery Assurance/PMO Lead to oversee complex programme delivery. This role requires strong stakeholder engagement, planning skills, and the ability to manage risks effectively. The successful candidate will support senior leadership and ensure project alignment and success.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading PMO functions or complex programme delivery.
• Strong understanding of portfolio alignment and enterprise change impact management.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain an integrated programme milestone-level schedule.
• Work closely with senior stakeholders to ensure alignment.
• Run periodic plan health checks and assurance reviews.

Skills

Stakeholder Engagement

Communication

Risk Management

Planning

Analytical Thinking

Tools

MS Project

Power BI

JIRA

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

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Delivery Assurance/PMO Lead - BPSS Required - Outside IR35

We are seeking an experienced and detail-driven Delivery Assurance - PMO Lead Must have some PM experience to oversee the delivery management and governance of a complex, multi-workstream programme. The successful candidate will play a critical role in aligning planning activities, managing risks and dependencies, supporting senior stakeholders, and ensuring delivery against schedule, cost, and quality objectives. This role combines strategic oversight with hands-on delivery support, reporting into senior leadership and contributing to programme-wide success.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain an integrated programme milestone-level schedule across multiple workstreams (7)
• Track and manage programme critical path, cross-functional dependencies, and milestones.
• Provide visibility and alignment of projects and change initiatives, ensuring mutual impacts are identified and managed.
• Maintain central delivery trackers and schedule key engagement events.

Stakeholder Engagement & Leadership Support

• Work closely with senior stakeholders to ensure alignment and awareness across business and technical domains.
• Develop high-quality, C-level communication materials (dashboards, packs, reports).
• Support programme leadership with insights, risk escalations, and decision-making inputs.
• Lead strategic risk planning activities with various stakeholder groups.
• Maintain a consolidated risk register and update key delivery artefacts such as DAREOC on a regular schedule.
• Proactively identify and resolve planning issues and delivery blockers.

Governance, Assurance & Delivery Metrics

• Run periodic plan health checks and assurance reviews to identify delivery risks.
• Conduct delivery audits and produce delivery metrics to support governance.
• Identify and recommend process improvements to drive planning maturity and execution discipline.
• Liaise with Shared Services Audit & Governance to support compliance with internal standards and audit schedules.
• Mentor and support workstream leads and project managers to improve planning capability and delivery confidence.
• Conduct workshops to address planning gaps and improve delivery maturity.
• Lead deep-dive reviews on high-risk or underperforming areas to clear critical dependencies and unlock progress.

Required Skills & Experience:

Core PMO/Programme Delivery Skills

• Proven experience leading PMO functions or complex programme delivery in Matrix environments.
• Deep expertise in integrated planning, scheduling (at milestone and detailed levels), and critical path analysis.
• Strong understanding of portfolio alignment and enterprise change impact management.

Stakeholder & Communication

• Ability to build strong relationships with senior stakeholders and executive sponsors.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; ability to distil complex information into clear, executive-ready outputs.
• Experience preparing and presenting content for governance forums, steering groups, and C-suite.

Governance, Assurance & Risk

• Strong knowledge of delivery assurance practices, PMO controls, and audit processes.
• Proficient in identifying strategic and operational risks, and managing issues to resolution.

Tools & Technical Proficiency

• Advanced skills in project and programme planning tools (eg, MS Project, Primavera, or equivalent).
• Experience using collaboration and reporting tools (eg, PowerPoint, Excel, Power BI, SharePoint, JIRA).
• Familiarity with risk and issue tracking tools; ability to implement and maintain delivery dashboards and trackers.
• High attention to detail and strong analytical thinking.
• Credible and trusted partner to delivery and business leads.
• Self-starter with a proactive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity with a structured approach to delivery.
• Mentoring and coaching experience, particularly in elevating PMO and planning maturity.

Performance Metrics

• Integrated plan maintained and critical path actively managed.
• Risks, dependencies, and issues regularly reviewed and updated.
• Delivery artefacts (DAREOC, trackers, reports) produced on schedule.
• Governance forums supported with timely and accurate information.
• Delivery process issues identified with improvement actions implemented.
• Deep-dive interventions resolved blockers and restored momentum.

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