PMO Planner

SF Recruitment; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 57,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a PMO Planner for an 18-month fixed term contract. This position offers a £56,500 base salary, 40 days annual leave, and requires one day in the Birmingham office while allowing flexibility for remote work. The ideal candidate will implement project planning standards, manage project timelines, and facilitate stakeholder communications. Experience with Microsoft Project or SmartSheet and Prince2 qualifications are essential.

Benefits

40 days annual leave

15% pension

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Project or SmartSheet.
• Prince2 qualifications are required.
• Proven management of projects from inception to implementation.
• Excellent communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement project planning standards.
• Facilitate the development of high-level project plans.
• Ensure adherence to programme governance and standards.

Skills

Microsoft Project

SmartSheet

Project management

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Education

Degree level education

Job description

Overview

18 month fixed term contract PMO Planner opportunity. £56,500 base + 40 days annual leave + 15% pension. 1 day a week from Birmingham head office with the rest at home. Immediately start available.

Responsibilities

• Define, develop and implement project planning standards and outline approach, ensuring programme and project planning capability maturity is developed across the breadth of the programme.
• Facilitate the design and development of high level schematic roadmaps and detailed programme and project plans in collaboration with the programme or project managers/workstream leads, ensuring that all milestones and internal and external dependencies are identified, logged and monitored.
• Ensure that plans are maintained and updated using forecasting to advise on potential missed milestones and dependencies, creating impact assessments to ensure that plans anticipate future developments where possible.
• In collaboration with programme/project managers and workstream leads, ensure the range of plans (e.g. delivery, transitional, benefit and resource plans) are developed to ensure the effective delivery of the programme.
• Analyse interfaces and dependencies between projects and recommend appropriate action where anomalies exist or there are areas of concern.
• Review programme and project/workstream plans against Business as Usual plans to ensure that change can be adopted effectively.
• Establish and operate mechanisms to track programme or project/workstream delivery against the plan and ensure progress updates are reported against the plan.
• Ensure project managers/leads adherence to the programme governance, standards, processes and templates as well as ensuring the necessary monitoring and reviews are established.
• Support Programme/Project Reporting processes and Programme Boards.

Qualifications and Experience

• Advanced level of knowledge and experience of Microsoft Project or SmartSheet.
• Prince2 qualifications.
• Proven ability in the management of projects from inception to successful implementation, including the development of project plans, and the management of budgets, resources and timelines.
• Ability to broker relationships with stakeholders at all levels, demonstrating the sensitivities required to balance and resolve the tensions in working with a wide range of contacts (both internally and externally at senior level).
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate at all levels, with both technical and non-technical audiences, and to simplify complex issues and concepts, both through presentations and through clear written documents.
• Proven experience in shaping developments through active participation and leadership of project teams.
• Strong analytical skills with proven experience of solving complex problems.
• Ability to monitor and evaluate the extent to which equality and diversity legislation, policies and procedures are applied.
• Ability to identify whether decisions will have an adverse impact on a particular group and to take appropriate action.
• Educated to Degree level (or equivalent qualifications) plus significant relevant practical experience - where no equivalent qualification is held substantial practical relevant experience and expertise in a series of progressively more demanding roles will be required.
• Evidence of literacy and numeracy, with the ability to write clearly for a variety of audiences, and to produce and analyse source material, information and data.
• Authoritative knowledge of the work practices, processes and procedures relevant to the role, including broader sector/commercial awareness.