PMO Lead: Strategic Governance & Portfolio Delivery

Southern Water; Chatham; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern Water is recruiting a PMO Lead to lead the Programme Management Office across the Environment & Innovation directorate. The role coordinates reporting, governance and lifecycle processes, ensuring alignment with business owners and stakeholders.

The PMO Lead will manage Senior PMO Analysts and PMO Analysts, drive standards, and optimise delivery across a growing portfolio funded with significant future investment. This is a permanent, regionally flexible role with weekly site visits.

Qualifications

• Significant demonstrable experience of shaping, scoping and delivering PMO services.
• Experience of managing a PMO team with a portfolio of Business and IT Projects and Programmes.
• Experience of the full delivery lifecycle and project management tools and techniques.
• Experience of managing resource demand and assignment, identifying opportunities and risks.
• Experience of financial management including tracking and reporting, purchase orders, invoicing and finance system updates.
• Experience of project, programme and portfolio reviews, reporting and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate project and programme level reporting, including analytics to identify issues, trends, gaps and improvements required.
• Ensure the team capture and manage demand through the delivery lifecycle processes, from idea through to closure, in collaboration with Business Owners and Business stakeholders, PMs, tracking and prioritising initiatives.
• Drive adoption of the Environment & Innovation delivery lifecycle, standards and processes ensuring projects and programmes are compliant.
• Be a key point of contact with other PMO teams in SW to ensure sharing best practice and learnings.
• Co-ordinate, track and report risks, issues, changes and dependencies at a programme and portfolio level.
• Management of permanent and contract Senior PMO Analysts and PMO Analysts in the successful delivery of PMO services.

Skills

PMO leadership

Portfolio management

Delivery lifecycle

Analytics & reporting

Financial management

Job description

Southern Water is recruiting a PMO Lead to lead the Programme Management Office across the Environment & Innovation directorate. The role coordinates reporting, governance and lifecycle processes, ensuring alignment with business owners and stakeholders.

The PMO Lead will manage Senior PMO Analysts and PMO Analysts, drive standards, and optimise delivery across a growing portfolio funded with significant future investment. This is a permanent, regionally flexible role with weekly site visits.