Head of PMO

RS Group; Manchester; Remote; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension/retirement

Life assurance

Medical plans

Holiday / paid time off

Employee assistance programme

Travel loans

Job summary

RS Group is seeking a Head of PMO to lead the end-to-end Value Driver Framework and ensure delivery of the market's strategic priorities. The role requires coordinating across functions, shaping governance, and driving measurable outcomes.

You will lead, challenge, and coordinate across teams to keep initiatives on track, deliver benefits, and maintain momentum with strong stakeholder engagement and decisive execution.

Qualifications

• Translate business strategy into executable plans and measurable outcomes.
• Strong commercial awareness with value drivers and performance levers.
• Experience managing strategic portfolios, programmes, or transformation initiatives.
• Strong analytical skills to interpret data and derive insights.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Excellent relationship-building and cross-functional alignment.
• Ability to hold stakeholders accountable while maintaining positive relationships.
• Strong programme, project, or portfolio management expertise.
• Experience establishing governance frameworks, performance tracking, and reporting.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and barriers and drive timely resolution.
• Strong prioritisation and organisational skills in complex environments.
• Resilient, persistent, and tenacious in driving initiatives.
• Results-oriented with focus on execution and benefit realisation.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and creating clarity.

Responsibilities

• Translate strategic ambition into tangible business results by providing structure, governance, and leadership to execute priorities.
• Create visibility, accountability, and momentum across the organisation to deliver on commitments.
• Identify risks early, remove barriers, and drive initiatives through to completion to realise benefits.
• Lead Strategic Planning & Value Driver Ownership, Execution & Delivery Excellence, Governance, Performance & Accountability, Insight & Decision Support, Stakeholder Leadership & Influence.

Skills

Strategy translation

Commercial awareness

Programme management

Stakeholder influence

Analytical skills

Relationship building

Delivery excellence

Governance & reporting

Risk management

Prioritisation

Execution under ambiguity

Job description

You will need to login before you can apply for a job.

Location

This is a mainly remote role, though with the requirement to attend necessary meetings in London, Manchester and/or Corby.

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’ve been 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 and 3 million unstocked products, we’re a trusted partner to the world's leading industries.

We're looking 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 provide all our people the opportunity to participate in 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 offering provide the opportunity for us to recognise, reward and enable the wellbeing of our people at all stages of their journey with RS. Our rewards and benefits vary by country, but include:

• Financial - pension/retirement; life assurance; salary finance (payroll deduction loan scheme)
• Wellbeing - medical plans; health screening; critical illness; disability insurance; holiday / paid time off; employee assistance programme; discounted gym/health club membership
• Lifestyle - transportation assistance schemes (e.g., cycle to work, travel loans, car leasing); onsite catering/lunch vouchers; retail discounts
• Spotlight - our global recognition programme provides a platform to highlight and recognise people role modelling our values

Ready to Make Amazing Happen?

Join c. 9,000 colleagues and help us shape the future of our industry. Whoever you are, wherever you are - it all starts here.