Group Head of PMO & Commercial Management

St George's University Hospitals; Tooting; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

St George's University Hospitals is seeking a proactive PMO leader to govern capital projects across the group, ensuring rigorous governance, accurate reporting and robust budget control. The role focuses on guiding the PMO team, developing group capital project policies, and ensuring month-end closures and gateway controls are consistently applied.

You will work with finance, information teams, and clinical leads to deliver schemes up to £50m annually, with a strong emphasis on risk management

Qualifications

• Governance and reporting experience in large capital projects.
• PMO leadership and portfolio management familiarity.
• Budget control and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Advise Deputy Group Directors and PMO team on the management of capital projects, providing practical and economical solutions.
• Develop Group Capital Project policies and adjust processes to deliver large-scale work programmes.
• Review Gateway sign-offs, publish budget statements, outline cost plans, and ensure costs are controlled and compliant.

Job description

The post holder will ensure Process, Governance, Rigour and Compliance are regulated for the Group delivery of projects of between £30-£50 million annually. They will ensure that all reporting from the delivery teams is accurate and up to date. To own the Group Project Tracker, and keep updated after every PMO project review meeting, ensuring Programme and budget information is accurate. Work with the Trust Financial Accountants, Information and Finance team to align month end figures. To report to the Group PMO CPD on all matters relating to the project delivery and to provide early warnings of any potential slippage or issues which need escalating. To ensure the delivery teams maintain the integrity and coherence of the project delivery-related standards, ensure these are met and maintain records for quality, governance and process compliance.

To manage the PMO team in relation to all Group construction and other related projects, specialising in Building Surveying, design and project management. To successfully govern a variety of Capital Projects Reporting, Budget and Programme as when requested, ensuring the annual capital budget is robust and managed with rigor, up to £50m annually. Oversee the quality of all reporting to the PMO, to manage all documentation relating to Gateway controls, ensuring that standards of reporting and documentation are satisfactory and ensure a single standard across the group is maintained. To own the Group Capital Tracker and be responsible for it being accurate and updated for month end closure.

St George's, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George's Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).

After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.

At gesh we are committed to supporting flexible working arrangements. Applicants are encouraged to discuss any flexibility they may need during the recruitment process.

• To advise and guide the Deputy Group Directors, Head of Capital and other members of the Project Team in the management of capital projects within the estate and to provide guidance on the most practical and economic solutions for the project, procurement, construction, management, commissioning and maintenance of the development. Ensure that the Group Director has the right information and knowledge at the right time to exercise authority properly.
• To be responsible for the development of Group Capital Project policies, through annual lessons learned meetings within the PMO group and other external policy introductions such as the BSA and make all necessary adjustments to the processes required to continue successfully delivering Capital Projects and the procurement of large-scale work programmes.
• At Gateway sign off stages, review and approve information, produce and publish budget statements, outline cost plans, detailed cost plans, cost checks and cost analysis statements to act as key control documents to provide rigor to the project and PMO to allow for approval to be given to the next stage. Ensure that the targets are checked and adjustments are made in order to demonstrate that the project is managed within budget.