Senior PMO Reporting Manager

ARCADIS; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis is seeking a Senior PMO Reporting Manager to lead the development, production and continuous improvement of project, programme and portfolio reporting. You will combine strong project controls knowledge with reporting leadership to provide clear performance insight and drive the transition from manual reporting to dashboard‑driven solutions.

Working with project controls, PMO, delivery and the leadership team, you will improve data quality, governance and business outcomes through data

Job description

Role description:

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

As a Senior PMO Reporting Manage r, you will lead the development, production and continuous improvement of project, programme and portfolio reporting. You will combine strong project controls knowledge with reporting leadership to provide clear performance insight, improve decision making, and drive the transition from manual reporting processes to efficient, dashboard-driven reporting environments. You will work closely with project controls, PMO, delivery and leadership teams to improve data quality, reporting standards, governance and business outcomes through better use of data, automation and process optimisation.

Role accountabilities:

• Lead the production of project, programme and portfolio performance reporting.
• Develop executive-level reporting, insight and performance narrative.
• Coordinate reporting inputs across project controls and delivery functions.
• Ensure reporting quality, data integrity, consistency and governance compliance.
• Identify trends, risks, issues and performance opportunities through data analysis.
• Drive process improvement, standardisation and reduction of manual reporting effort.
• Support the transition from spreadsheet and PowerPoint reporting to dashboard-driven solutions.
• Define reporting requirements and support implementation of digital reporting tools.
• Manage stakeholder engagement and present reporting outputs to senior leadership.
• Lead, coach and develop reporting and PMO team members.

Qualifications & Experience:

Essential

• Proven experience in PMO, project controls, reporting, or business performance environments.
• Strong understanding of project controls, including cost, schedule, risk, and change management.
• Experience delivering reporting and insights to senior leadership and governance forums.
• Strong analytical skills and experience working with performance data, KPIs, and management information.
• Experience managing reporting cycles, stakeholder inputs, and governance requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to improve reporting processes and ways of working.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and facilitation skills.
• Experience leading teams, workstreams, or reporting functions.
• Advanced PowerPoint and strong Excel skills.

Desirable

• Experience within infrastructure, engineering, construction, utilities, or major capital programmes.
• Knowledge of Power BI, dashboards, and data visualisation tools.
• Experience with reporting transformation, automation, or digital initiatives.
• Understanding of data governance, data quality, and information management principles.
• Professional qualification (or working towards) with APM, PMI, BCS, or equivalent.
• Lean Six Sigma, continuous improvement, or business process improvement experience.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.