Strategic PMO Lead: Remote Tech Portfolio Governance

La Fosse; Woking; Hybrid; GBP 77,000 - 94,000; Full time

Job summary

La Fosse is seeking an experienced PMO Lead to establish and run a technology and product PMO for a global organisation. The role involves initial onsite work in Oxfordshire with potential to move to remote work as relationships are built.

You will work closely with the CTO, CPO and senior leadership to drive visibility and control across the technology portfolio, delivering governance and reporting at portfolio level.

Qualifications

• Experience establishing, resetting or significantly improving a PMO.
• Strong technology/product portfolio experience including Azure DevOps experience.
• Excellent portfolio governance and delivery assurance capability.
• Experience with resource/capacity planning and project financials.
• Confident working directly with CTO/CPO/Board-level stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence and challenge.
• Comfortable operating as a highly autonomous, hands-on PMO Lead.

Responsibilities

• Establish and continuously improve the PMO framework, governance and reporting.
• Provide portfolio-level oversight across milestones, RAID, dependencies and delivery health.
• Develop visibility of resource demand, capacity and utilisation.
• Track budgets, forecasts, costs and benefits alongside Finance.
• Produce concise, decision-focused reporting for executive and Board audiences.
• Challenge Project Managers constructively and drive consistent reporting without direct line authority.
• Improve and automate portfolio reporting and processes.

Skills

PMO

Governance

Portfolio reporting

Stakeholder management

Resource planning

Budgeting

Azure DevOps

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

La Fosse is seeking an experienced PMO Lead to establish and run a technology and product PMO for a global organisation. The role involves initial onsite work in Oxfordshire with potential to move to remote work as relationships are built.

You will work closely with the CTO, CPO and senior leadership to drive visibility and control across the technology portfolio, delivering governance and reporting at portfolio level.