Hybrid PMO Lead: Build Governance & Delivery

SF Partners; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

SF Partners in Birmingham is seeking a PMO Lead/PMO Manager to establish and drive a fit-for-purpose PMO. You will build governance, templates, controls and reporting, providing portfolio visibility across projects and ensuring delivery discipline with project managers and workstreams.

You will combine strategic governance with hands-on delivery work, embedding PMO maturity and supporting business cases, post-implementation reviews and benefits tracking across a transformation portfolio.

Qualifications

• Strong experience as a PMO Manager, PMO Lead or Senior PMO professional within a transformation or change environment.
• Experience establishing PMO governance, controls and reporting from the ground up.
• Strong portfolio and programme governance experience.
• Ability to turn an inconsistent project environment into a clear, structured and manageable portfolio.
• Experience producing concise, insightful reporting for senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Establishing and developing the PMO framework, governance and ways of working.
• Creating practical project standards, templates, controls and reporting processes.
• Establishing portfolio‑level visibility across projects, programmes and change initiatives.
• Implementing effective RAID, dependency, milestone and action management.
• Developing clear and meaningful reporting for senior leadership and steering groups.
• Establishing appropriate governance forums, project gates and decision‑making processes.
• Supporting portfolio planning, prioritisation and resource visibility.
• Improving consistency around project planning, status reporting and delivery controls.
• Challenging project teams where milestones, risks or dependencies are not being effectively managed.
• Working directly with Project Managers and workstream leads to improve delivery discipline.
• Supporting business cases, benefits tracking and post‑implementation reviews.
• Identifying gaps in the existing project environment and putting pragmatic solutions in place.
• Helping embed a consistent project delivery culture across the organisation.
• Continually improving the PMO as the transformation portfolio develops.

Skills

PMO leadership

Governance

Reporting

Stakeholder management

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

SF Partners in Birmingham is seeking a PMO Lead/PMO Manager to establish and drive a fit-for-purpose PMO. You will build governance, templates, controls and reporting, providing portfolio visibility across projects and ensuring delivery discipline with project managers and workstreams.

You will combine strategic governance with hands-on delivery work, embedding PMO maturity and supporting business cases, post-implementation reviews and benefits tracking across a transformation portfolio.