PMO Lead

NFU Mutual; Stratford-upon-Avon; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary up to £75,000

Annual bonus up to 25%

Pension scheme up to 20%

28 days annual leave + holidays

Private medical insurance

Employee discounts

Job summary

NFU Mutual is seeking a PMO Lead to shape and deliver a major change portfolio. You will lead a PMO team of up to 10, ensuring governance, reporting and robust challenge across programmes. The role is based in Stratford-upon-Avon with 80% homeworking and 20% office presence at Tiddington Head Office.

You will collaborate with senior leaders, drive sound business cases and embed PMO standards while developing the wider service for current and future portfolio delivery.

Qualifications

• Proven portfolio governance and assurance experience.
• Strong project and programme controls expertise.
• Experience with financial, resource and supplier management.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of high quality PMO services across programmes or portfolios.
• Lead and develop a PMO team of up to 10 professionals and 5 direct reports.
• Shape programme and portfolio activity with senior stakeholders across the business.
• Maintain reporting, manage risks, issues, dependencies, budgets, resources and plans.
• Embed consistent PMO methods, standards and tools across the service.

Skills

Portfolio governance

Programme management

Stakeholder management

Planning & controls

Financial management

Team leadership

Education

APM Project Management Qualification

P30 Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices Practitioner

Management of Risk Practitioner

Scaled Agile Lean Portfolio Management

Tools

PMO methodologies

Job description

PMO Lead• Influence how a major change portfolio is shaped and delivered• Lead and develop a PMO team while evolving the PMO service• Hybrid 80% homeworking and 20% from Stratford upon AvonAbout the roleAt NFU Mutual, you’ll lead the delivery of high quality PMO services across programmes or portfolios within Group Change. You’ll help ensure effective assurance, governance and controls support the delivery of the Enterprise Change Portfolio to time, cost and quality.You’ll shape programme and portfolio activity, lead a team of up to 10 PMO professionals with five direct reports and help develop the wider PMO service. Your work will include providing robust challenge, supporting sound business cases, maintaining clear reporting and ensuring risks, issues, dependencies, budgets, resources and plans are managed effectively. You’ll work with senior leaders and stakeholders across the business, using evidence to support timely decisions and improve delivery.You’ll also build PMO capability by embedding consistent methods, standards and tools, developing colleagues and creating a trusted service that supports current and future portfolio delivery. The role offers career opportunities within PMO services and across change, delivery and assurance at NFU Mutual.This is a full time role based in Stratford upon Avon, with a working pattern of 80% homeworking and 20% from the office.This role is based in our Tiddington Head Office, just outside Stratford upon Avon. However, we understand how important a positive work life balance is, so to help you give your best, we offer great facilities when you want to be in an office environment and support working up to 80% of your hours from home.About youYou’re an experienced PMO leader who combines strategic thinking with clear decision making and confident communication. You build strong stakeholder relationships, collaborate effectively and influence at every level. You provide fair, constructive challenge, lead and develop people, and remain effective when managing multiple priorities under timeframe pressure.To join NFU Mutual, you’ll also bringProven portfolio governance and assurance experience, including significant transformation projects over £5 million across the full project lifecycleStrong project and programme controls expertise, including planning, scope, risk, issue and dependency managementExperience of financial, resource and third party supplier management, supported by good commercial awarenessExpert knowledge of PMO methodologies, frameworks and standards, with demonstrable experience in a Programme Management or Change Management OfficeExperience leading a PMO in a complex technical and IT environment, with exposure to a broad range of senior stakeholdersQualificationsDesirable: P30 Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices PractitionerDesirable: APM Project Management QualificationDesirable: Management of Risk PractitionerDesirable: Scaled Agile Lean Portfolio ManagementAt NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.Benefits and RewardsWhen you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:Salary – up to £75,000 dependent on experienceAnnual bonus (up to 25% of salary)Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution28 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading schemeA Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilitiesPrivate medical insurance + options to add family membersAccess to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets£20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&CsHealth and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and moreEmployee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each yearUnlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus schemeLife Assurance cover of 4 x salaryEmployee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.Salary sacrifice employee car scheme - subject to eligibilityWorking at NFU MutualWe’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services organisations, and for over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us, so we’re proud to be recognised as “a great place to work”.Our Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2026 award was not only awarded with Distinction, but it also marked us as the first UK based company to earn a Gallup Exceptional Workplace award for eleven consecutive years. We’ve also been consistently recognised by Glassdoor. We appeared in the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK list in 2023, 2024 and 2026 — and in 2026, we were the highest ranked insurance business in the UK, highlighting our strong employee experience and the positive feedback our people share on the platform.Additionally, we were named in the LinkedIn Top Companies 2026 list of “Best midsize employers to grow your career in the UK”, and we’ve been certified as a UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026.We offer a supportive and empowering culture where people are inspired to perform, given opportunities to grow, and recognised and rewarded for their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable—so we’re successful now and in the future.Stratford-upon-AvonTiddington RoadStratford-upon-AvonWarwickshireCV37 7BJVisit the Stratford-upon-Avon (Tiddington) officeVacancy managed bySimon Homer