PMO Manager

Tesco Insurance; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance provider in Edinburgh is seeking a PMO Manager to join its Technology team. This permanent role involves establishing the PMO framework and ensuring project alignment with business strategy. The role offers a salary from £43,680 plus benefits including performance bonuses and flexible working arrangements. Applicants should have strong project management skills and proficiency in tools such as Excel and JIRA.

Benefits

Pension scheme

Private healthcare

Annual performance bonus

Generous holiday allowance

Colleague Clubcard

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Learning opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of project and program management methodologies.
• Excellent communication skills are essential.
• Proficiency in portfolio management tools such as Excel and JIRA is required.

Responsibilities

• Establish and improve the PMO framework and governance.
• Ensure effective project setup and delivery aligned with strategy.
• Provide accurate reporting on status, risk, and issues.

Skills

Project management methodologies

Communication skills

Portfolio management tools

Data analysis

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

SharePoint

JIRA

Job description

Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Salary – from £43,680 + annual bonus & benefits

Work Level – 2

Permanent role

Location – Edinburgh

Office Attendance - Our roles are hybrid; however, you need to travel to our Edinburgh office 2 days per week for this role.

Closing Date for applications – 8th December 2025

IMS deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for. And that means we always work with heart. Whether we’re helping our customers or looking after our people, you’ll find there’s a warmth and friendliness to everything we do.

We’re looking for aPMO Managerto join our Technology team within Insurance Money and Services. (This role will be known as a PMO Manager within Tesco Insurance and Money Services).

It’s an exciting time in our business and we need a PMO Manager to support our ambitious plans to grow our business in over the coming years. So why not bring your talent, expertise, and skills to join our friendly team and make a difference to our customers, communities, and planet?

What you’ll bring

• Establishing, maintaining, and continuously improving the Project Management Office (PMO) framework, governance, and standards
• Ensuring that projects and change initiatives are set up and delivered effectively, aligned with business strategy
• Providing visibility of the portfolio through producing accurate reporting on status, risk, issues and benefits realisation
• Conducting assurance reviews to ensure project quality and adherence to best practices in change management
• Driving PMO maturity through process optimisation and adoption of best practices
• Collaborating with a range of stakeholders across IMS to share key information and to overcome challenges as they arise

What we are looking for

• Strong understanding of project and program management methodologies
• Excellent communication skills
• Proficiency in portfolio management tools (e.g. Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, JIRA).
• Ability to analyse data and produce insightful reports for decision-making.
• Proactive, driven individual with experience in collaborating with a range of stakeholders ie change colleagues, business colleagues, Finance colleagues

What’s in it for you?

• Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
• Private Healthcare. Plus a virtual GP Service for you and your family 365 days a year.
• Performance related annual bonus.
• Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
• Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase to 15% every payday as an added perk, we’ll give you a second card to share with someone else.
• Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous 8-week paid paternity leave.
• A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
• Take part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as your Earn share schemes.

Everyone’s welcome

We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves. We’re committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Additional Information

We also know the importance of balancing work with life’s other commitments. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need, as we’re committed to exploring part time and flexible working opportunities, at every level of the organisation.

Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services?

Seeing your impact all around you: there's no better feeling.

Lucky for us, we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role, we're helping our colleagues and serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for.

Everything we do is about making things better. Not just for others, but for you too. It's why you'll get bags of choice and plenty of development. It's why you'll always be heard and find balance that works for you. It's why you'll feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome.

So, if you want a career where you can do good and feel good, you've found it.

Let's make everyday a little better.

Our story

Making Insurance and Money Services more rewarding and offering great value and choice - because we know little wins can make a big difference.

We began life in 1997 and now help more than 2 million customers protect what matters to them.

We want to deliver a helpful service in everything we do and to make life easier for our customers. Our policies are really easy to manage online for our customers, but we know that being able to speak to our customer service staff when you need to is really important. This is why our customer service centers are open seven days a week.

Delivering great customer service means having great people behind the scenes – people who understand our customers and are driven by doing the right thing for them. We offer colleagues a place where they can feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome, where they can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.

How to apply

We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.

Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you’re interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Insurance and Money Services looks like, click apply to find out more!