PMO Lead

Achilles Information Limited; Abingdon; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Achilles Information Limited in Abingdon is seeking an experienced PMO Lead to establish and lead a high-impact PMO for our technology and product portfolio. This role partners with senior leadership to drive delivery, governance, and reporting across a global portfolio.

You will design governance frameworks, track progress, manage budgets, and build forecast models, enabling informed investment decisions and continuous improvement across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Proven experience establishing or transforming PMO or portfolio governance.
• Experience overseeing technology, product, transformation, software, or infrastructure portfolios.
• Ability to influence stakeholders without direct line management.
• Experience with portfolio financials: budgets, forecasting, cost tracking, variances and benefits realization.

Responsibilities

• Establish and operate a PMO as a single source of truth across tech and product initiatives.
• Design portfolio governance frameworks, reporting standards, controls, templates, and rhythms.
• Maintain an integrated portfolio view: scope, milestones, risks, dependencies, resources, budgets, delivery.
• Provide delivery assurance through tracking, challenge, and risk identification.
• Develop resource demand, capacity, utilisation, and forecasting models.
• Produce executive-facing reporting for Board and leaders.
• Drive process improvement, automation, and data quality.

Skills

PMO Leadership

Portfolio Governance

Stakeholder Engagement

Reporting & Analytics

Strategic Planning

Education

Degree-level qualification or equivalent

PRINCE2/MSP/SAFe/Agile certifications

Tools

Azure DevOps

Power BI

Power Automate

Job description

Location: Abingdon (Hybrid)

Reporting to: CTO

We're looking for an experienced PMO Lead to establish and lead a high-impact Project Management Office for our technology and product portfolio. This is a unique opportunity to build a PMO function from the ground up and become a key partner to senior leadership, providing the insight, governance, and reporting needed to drive successful delivery across a complex global portfolio.

What You’ll Do

• Establish and operate a pragmatic PMO that provides a single source of truth across technology and product initiatives.
• Design and implement portfolio governance frameworks, reporting standards, controls, templates, and operating rhythms.
• Maintain an integrated portfolio view covering project scope, milestones, risks, dependencies, resources, budgets, and delivery performance.
• Provide delivery assurance through robust portfolio tracking, constructive challenge, and proactive risk identification.
• Develop and maintain resource demand, capacity, utilisation, and forecasting models across technology and product teams.
• Partner with the CTO, CPO, Finance and Project Managers to support prioritisation, planning, and investment decisions.
• Oversee portfolio-level financial tracking, including budgets, forecasts, variances, expenditure, and benefits realisation.
• Produce clear, concise and actionable reporting for executive leaders and Board stakeholders, enabling informed, evidence-based decision-making.
• Drive continuous improvement through process optimisation, automation, and improved portfolio data quality.

What You’ll Bring

• Proven experience establishing, transforming, or significantly improving PMO or portfolio governance functions.
• Strong background overseeing portfolios of technology, product, transformation, software, or infrastructure projects.
• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and drive accountability without direct line management responsibility.
• Expertise in portfolio governance, project controls, resource planning, RAID management, dependency management, and change control.
• Experience managing portfolio financials, including budgets, forecasting, cost tracking, variance analysis, and benefits realisation.
• Exceptional analytical skills with the ability to turn complex delivery information into meaningful business insights.
• Excellent communication skills, with experience presenting to senior executives and Board-level audiences.
• Experience working within matrixed, international, and cross-functional environments.
• Advanced skills in reporting and portfolio management tools in particular Azure DevOps, PowerBI, Power Automate. Degree-level qualification or equivalent experience. PRINCE2, MSP, SAFe, Agile, or related certifications would be advantageous.

Why Join Us?

Ready to build and lead a PMO that drives meaningful business impact? We'd love to hear from you.

We welcome applications from armed forces veterans, reservists and their families.

We are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion in our practices and workforce.

For more than 30 years, Achilles has protected organisations’ business interests and reputations by providing unrivalled levels of supply chain transparency, carbon reduction and management. We are the ESG and carbon management partner of choice for the world’s leading global brands.

Achilles specialises in supporting customers that require truly robust environmental, social and governance reporting to fully comply with ESG regulation, meet investor requirements, and achieve their own ambitious sustainability goals. We work with market-leading financial, industrial, commercial, and governmental organisations requiring the serious, detailed analysis and expert insight necessary to deliver exceptional reporting confidence.

Operating from 22 locations worldwide, Achilles is at the forefront of the battle against climate change, a champion for social justice and human rights, and an expert in health, safety, and risk management.

The Achilles Way – how we do things

Be Curious

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Commit

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