PMO Lead — Shape a Growing Consulting Portfolio (Hybrid)

Seeker Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Seeker Recruitment is seeking an experienced PMO Lead to establish and lead the PMO for a growing consultancy, overseeing a portfolio of client engagements and driving governance, reporting and commercial insight from the heart of a new consulting team in London.

You will create structure, templates and processes, manage cross-functional resources, and partner with senior stakeholders to ensure successful mobilisations and delivery of outcomes with a pragmatic, commercially focused approach.

Qualifications

• Essential PMO, programme office or portfolio management function experience.
• Experience overseeing multiple projects or workstreams within consulting, professional services or transformation.
• Strong planning, governance, reporting and risk management experience.
• Experience in resource planning, utilisation tracking and coordinating multidisciplinary teams.
• Good commercial understanding including budgets, forecasting, scope management and project economics.
• Comfort working with senior leadership and client stakeholders.
• Excellent organisation and attention to detail with oversight of multiple moving parts.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to inform senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Establish and manage the PMO, providing a clear view of consulting opportunities and active engagements.
• Develop governance, reporting and stage-gate processes across the project lifecycle.
• Track scope, milestones, deliverables, risks, dependencies, actions and key decisions.
• Coordinate resources and stakeholders across the consulting team and wider Group businesses.
• Prepare and manage project reviews, governance meetings and steering forums.
• Monitor budgets, forecasts, utilisation, resource costs and commercial performance.
• Support accurate time recording, invoicing and revenue forecasting.
• Produce management information and reporting covering pipeline, project health and portfolio performance.
• Develop and embed PMO templates, dashboards, tools and best-practice processes.

Job description

Seeker Recruitment is seeking an experienced PMO Lead to establish and lead the PMO for a growing consultancy, overseeing a portfolio of client engagements and driving governance, reporting and commercial insight from the heart of a new consulting team in London.

You will create structure, templates and processes, manage cross-functional resources, and partner with senior stakeholders to ensure successful mobilisations and delivery of outcomes with a pragmatic, commercially focused approach.