Head of PMO

Rsgroup; Corby; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

Life insurance

Wellbeing support

Employee assistance

Job summary

RS is seeking a Head of PMO in Corby to lead the PMO function, drive the end-to-end Value Driver Framework, and ensure disciplined execution of strategic priorities. The role requires leadership across functions to deliver measurable business outcomes and realize benefits.

You will own governance, performance tracking, and decision support, guiding complex portfolios and programmes with a focus on speed, clarity, and accountability.

Qualifications

• Translate business strategy into executable plans with measurable outcomes.
• Strong commercial awareness to understand value drivers and levers.
• Experience managing strategic portfolios, programmes, or transformation initiatives.
• Proven ability to influence and engage senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide structure, governance and leadership to execute strategic priorities.
• Create visibility, accountability and momentum across the organisation.
• Identify risks, remove barriers and drive initiatives to completion.

Skills

Strategic planning

Stakeholder management

Delivery governance

Data-driven decision making

Leadership presence

Job description

Head of PMO

Location: Corby, ENG, GB, NN17 5JF

Brand: RS

Work Location: Hybrid

Location: This is a hybrid role, with the requirement to attend necessary meetings in Corby for 2-3days per week.

Contract Type: Permanent

The Opportunity

Here at RS, we have an exciting opportunity to join our leadership team as Head of PMO (Project Management Office). This individual is responsible for driving the successful delivery of the market's strategic priorities by owning and governing the end-to-end Value Driver Framework. Acting as the operational engine behind the strategy, this individual ensures that key business objectives are translated into clear plans, measurable outcomes, and disciplined execution.

This person provides leadership, challenge, and coordination across functions to maintain focus on the initiatives that create the greatest business value, ensuring accountability, visibility, and pace of delivery. As a highly proactive and influential leader, they identify barriers, drive decisions, and relentlessly follow through to conclusion, ensuring strategic commitments are delivered and intended benefits are realised.

What You Will Be Doing

You will play a pivotal role in turning strategic ambition into tangible business results. By providing the structure, governance, and leadership needed to execute the market's most important priorities, the role ensures that resources are focused on the initiatives that deliver the greatest value and that commitments translate into measurable outcomes.

Through proactive leadership, effective stakeholder engagement, and a relentless focus on delivery, the Head of PMO creates visibility, accountability, and momentum across the organisation. By identifying risks early, removing barriers, and driving initiatives through to completion, the role enables the business to achieve its strategic objectives faster, realise agreed benefits, and build a culture of execution excellence.

By identifying risks early, removing barriers, and driving initiatives through to completion, the role enables the business to achieve its strategic objectives faster, realise agreed benefits, and build a culture of execution excellence. To achieve this, you will be responsible for:

• Strategic Planning & Value Driver Ownership
• Execution & Delivery Excellence
• Governance, Performance & Accountability
• Insight, Data & Decision Support
• Stakeholder Leadership & Influence

What You’ll Bring

• Demonstrated ability to translate business strategy into executable plans and measurable outcomes.
• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to understand value drivers and business performance levers.
• Experience managing strategic portfolios, programmes, or transformation initiatives.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data and generate meaningful insights.
• Proven ability to influence, challenge, and engage senior stakeholders.
• Excellent relationship-building skills with the ability to align diverse teams behind common objectives.
• Ability to hold stakeholders accountable whilst maintaining positive working relationships.
• Strong programme, project, or portfolio management expertise.
• Proven experience establishing governance frameworks, performance tracking, and reporting mechanisms.
• Ability to identify risks, dependencies, and barriers and drive timely resolution.
• Strong prioritisation and organisational skills within complex and fast-paced environments.
• Highly resilient, persistent, and tenacious in driving initiatives through to completion.
• Results-oriented with a strong focus on execution and benefit realisation.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and creating clarity for others.

Not essential but would be great if you also have

• Experience implementing portfolio management methodologies and best practices.
• Knowledge of benefits realisation frameworks and value tracking approaches.
• Experience leading or supporting large-scale organisational change programmes.
• Understanding of change management principles and stakeholder adoption strategies.
• Experience with investment governance, business case development, and resource allocation
• Budget management and financial planning experience.
• Professional qualifications such as MSP, PRINCE2, PMP, Agile, or equivalent.
• Experience within a matrixed or multinational organisation.

We Are RS

We’vebeen solving industry problems for over 80 years. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’,the impossible into the possible.

Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.

We offer service and product solutions to over 1.2 million customers globally, shipping a parcel every 2 seconds to over 130 countries. With over 800,000 stocked and3million unstocked products,we’rea trusted partner to the world’s leading industries.

We’relooking for curious, driven, and empathetic professionals to join our journey. People who think differently, act with purpose, and want to make a real impact.

Rewards

Our Reward Strategy Philosophy is designed to offer market competitive base salaries and provideallour people the opportunity toparticipatein a short-term incentive, enabling them to share in the success of the Company.

Our total reward package is more than just the cash; our recognition and benefit offeringprovide the opportunity for usto recognise,rewardand enable the wellbeing of their people at all stages of the journey with RS. Our rewards and benefits vary by country, but include:

• Financial pension/retirement;lifeassurance;salaryfinance (payroll deduction loan scheme)
• Wellbeing -medical plans;healthscreening;criticalillness;disability insurance;holiday/paidtimeoff;employeeassistanceprogramme; discountedgym/healthclub membership
• Lifestyle -transportationassistanceschemes (e.g.,cycle towork, travel loans, car leasing); onsite catering/lunch vouchers; retaildiscounts
• Spotlight – our global recognition programme provides a platform to highlight and recognise people role modelling our values

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