Head of Project Management Office (PMO)

Rank My WP; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 72,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A project management solutions provider in the UK is seeking a Head of Project Management Office. This key role involves leading the project management discipline across multiple locations and ensuring effective project delivery. The candidate will have significant project management experience and the ability to shape an evolving PMO. Offering a hybrid working model, competitive salary, and extensive benefits, this position is an opportunity to contribute to strategic goals in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Private medical health insurance

Group Pension Plan

Hybrid working arrangements

Employee Discounts portal

Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven project management practitioner with significant experience.
• Experience in setting up PMOs and defining processes.
• Knowledgeable in all phases of project management.

Responsibilities

• Lead the PM professional discipline across locations.
• Ensure efficient project definition, delivery, and execution.
• Build networks with stakeholders across the business.

Skills

Project management

Risk and opportunity management

Stakeholder engagement

Governance and reporting

Education

APM qualification or working towards it

Job description

About The Role

Head of Project Management Office
Based across our three locations (Bristol, Barnstaple, Beckington) with a mix of office and home-based working.
Up to £85k depending on experience and full benefits.
We are SEA. Engineered to protect. We protect what matters - our nations, our waters, our land, our cities, our people, our environment, our world.

Join us. As Head of Project Management Office you will lead the PM professional discipline, covering the people, processes, and tools used to deliver project management capability within SEA, contributing to company objectives through effective project delivery.

Your work will support SEA’s effective & efficient project definition, delivery, execution and controls; knowledge and learning, reporting, data integrity; resource planning & allocation and project governance. This is a great opportunity to take on a critical role during a period of exciting growth for SEA, and drive best practice and learning across the business to support our strategic goals.

The Project Management Office Will Support

• Project Governance - ensuring a structured approach to govern projects involving various stakeholders, team members, project managers, sponsors, investors, clients, etc.


• Plan and Schedule Resource Efficiency - ensuring enterprise resources are utilized efficiently and the right resources are allocated to the right project at the right time.


• Project Reporting - centralised project information, defining and delivering reports to the right stakeholders at the right time, so that people can make informed and timely decisions for project success.


• Project Learning and Knowledge -

What We Offer

Your work, your contribution, deserves to be recognised and rewarded. Have a look at the benefits we offer:

Work Life Balance

• Hybrid/flexible working arrangements


• 25 days annual leave, plus buy and sell


• Up to 16 days flexi leave accrual


• Half day Fridays


• Reservist in the armed forces receive special paid leave

Family & wellbeing

• Private medical health insurance & Employee Assistance Program


• All Staff Bonus


• Group Pension Plan of up to 7% employer contribution


• Cycle to work scheme


• Wellbeing centre


• Sports & Social activities


• Employee Discounts portal – online and instore discounts, travel savings etc


• Life assurance policy


• Publication and recruitment bonus rewards


• Development opportunities, including LinkedIn learning

Facilities & resources

• Electric vehicle charging points at all sites


• Private seated lunch areas


• Onsite bistro (Barnstaple office) and free hot and cold beverages


• Onsite showers and toiletries provision


• Free onsite parking

The Skills You Need

As Head of Project Management Office, you’ll be a proven and seasoned project management practitioner with significant experience at a functional level. You’ll bring experience of setting up PMOs, defining processes, procedures and standards, and an ability to chart a course for our discipline through a busy period of growth. You’ll be:

• Competent in building networks with applicable stakeholders and staff at all levels and departments across the business.


• Knowledgeable and experienced in all phases of projects from inception, planning and organisation, monitoring & control and closure.


• An expert in risk and opportunity management, project governance and reporting.


• Experienced in the definition, improvement, tailoring and training of organisational project management processes.


• Qualified or working toward qualifications with the APM.


• Experience of working in a defence of systems engineering context is ideal but not essential.

Join us and be part of something smaller – with 300 people in the UK and Canada – doing something bigger: protecting what matters.

If you would like to know more, please give our Talent Acquisition Manager Dave a call on 01373 852197.

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