Governance & Procurement PMO Specialist

We Manage Jobs(WMJobs); West Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working opportunities

Local Government Pension Scheme

Generous annual leave entitlement

Wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

Birmingham City Council is seeking a Major Procurement Programme and Projects Office Practitioner to join our new MPPPO. You will support governance and delivery of high-value procurement programmes by coordinating governance meetings, maintaining project controls and reporting performance information.

You will help ensure transparency, compliance with standards and continuous improvement across programme management.

Qualifications

• This role requires experience in project support or PMO environments.
• Ability to manage governance processes and project reporting.
• Strong analytical skills to interpret data and present information.
• Excellent organisational skills and deadline-driven delivery.
• Stakeholder management across multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience using project management tools and improving systems.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate governance meetings, Project Boards and assurance reviews.
• Produce and analyse project reports, dashboards and performance data.
• Maintain programme risk, issue, dependency and decision logs.
• Review procurement documentation for governance compliance.
• Manage procurement trackers, contract repositories and records.
• Identify opportunities to improve PMO processes and tools.
• Organise workshops, reviews and lessons-learned events.

Skills

PMO coordination

Governance processes

Project reporting

Risk registers

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Continuous improvement

Tools

MS Project

Project management tools

Job description

Birmingham City Council is seeking a Major Procurement Programme and Projects Office Practitioner to join our new MPPPO. You will support governance and delivery of high-value procurement programmes by coordinating governance meetings, maintaining project controls and reporting performance information.

You will help ensure transparency, compliance with standards and continuous improvement across programme management.