PMO Leader: Build & Govern Change Portfolio (Hybrid)

SF Partners; Tyseley; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Job summary

SF Partners is seeking a PMO Lead/PMO Manager to design and embed a fit-for-purpose PMO across a transformation portfolio. The role blends hands-on delivery with governance, controls and reporting to improve project delivery and visibility.

You will establish standards, templates and gates, work with project managers and senior stakeholders to ensure consistent planning, risk management and decision-making, and drive a disciplined, yet pragmatic, PMO culture across the organisation.

Qualifications

• PMO leader with track record of establishing or significantly improving a PMO.
• Experience governance, controls and reporting from the ground up.
• Strong portfolio and programme governance experience.
• Excel and PowerPoint adept with project/portfolio reporting.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication.

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

Portfolio Management

Stakeholder Management

Excel

PowerPoint

Project Controls

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

SF Partners is seeking a PMO Lead/PMO Manager to design and embed a fit-for-purpose PMO across a transformation portfolio. The role blends hands-on delivery with governance, controls and reporting to improve project delivery and visibility.

You will establish standards, templates and gates, work with project managers and senior stakeholders to ensure consistent planning, risk management and decision-making, and drive a disciplined, yet pragmatic, PMO culture across the organisation.