Strategic PMO Lead: Change & Portfolio Delivery

Itchyfeet; United Kingdom; Sur place; GBP 65 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Itchyfeet is seeking a proactive PMO/Portfolio Coordinator to manage a holistic view of portfolio activity, align change roadmaps, and support governance across strategic initiatives.

You will enable prioritisation, schedule governance forums, and produce insightful reports for senior leadership, ensuring controls and documentation are robust while coordinating across Change, Technology, Risk, Compliance, and Finance teams.

Qualifications

• Proven experience within a PMO, Project Support, Programme Support, or Portfolio Coordination environment.
• Strong understanding of project delivery methodologies, governance, and reporting disciplines.
• Experience maintaining project plans, milestones, risks, issues, actions, dependencies, and decision logs.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to translate complex information into concise and meaningful reports.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrable experience preparing reports, presentations, and governance papers for senior leadership, Executive Committees, and Boards.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the confidence to challenge constructively and follow through on actions.

Responsabilités

• Maintain a single, accurate view of all portfolio activity across strategic, regulatory, and operational change initiatives.
• Coordinate integrated change roadmaps, delivery milestones, and key dependencies.
• Support assessment of new change requests considering priorities, capacity, risk, dependencies, and readiness.
• Provide analysis and insight to support prioritisation, sequencing, and resource allocation decisions.
• Monitor cumulative impact of change across the business and highlight capacity constraints.
• Coordinate governance forums, portfolio reviews, planning meetings, and stage gate activities.
• Prepare agendas, governance packs, dashboards, actions, and decision logs.
• Develop and maintain PMO processes, templates, and reporting standards.
• Provide guidance to project managers and workstream leads on governance requirements and controls.
• Ensure audit trails, approvals, and project documentation are maintained effectively.
• Consolidate project and programme updates into portfolio-level reporting.
• Track progress against scope, milestones, budgets, benefits, and quality measures.
• Maintain portfolio risks, issues, actions, dependencies, and decisions.
• Identify emerging delivery risks and elevate concerns appropriately.
• Produce high-quality reporting, dashboards, and presentations for Change Board, Executive Committee, and Board-level audiences.
• Communicate portfolio insights confidently with senior stakeholders and executives.
• Support monitoring of change budgets, forecasts, expenditure, and variances.
• Maintain an overview of resource demand and capacity across the portfolio.
• Track benefits realisation and agreed business outcomes.
• Support the preparation and quality assurance of business cases, stage gate documentation, and project closure reports.
• Build strong relationships across Change, Technology, Risk, Compliance, Finance, and business teams.
• Provide practical PMO support and guidance to project teams and sponsors.
• Promote transparent, accurate, and timely reporting across the organisation.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of PMO processes, tools, and governance frameworks.

Connaissances

PMO experience

Governance

Reporting

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Verbal & written communication

Multi-tasking

Attention to detail

Formation

PMO qualification (PRINCE2/APM/MSP/P3O)

Outils

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Description du poste

Itchyfeet is seeking a proactive PMO/Portfolio Coordinator to manage a holistic view of portfolio activity, align change roadmaps, and support governance across strategic initiatives.

You will enable prioritisation, schedule governance forums, and produce insightful reports for senior leadership, ensuring controls and documentation are robust while coordinating across Change, Technology, Risk, Compliance, and Finance teams.