Strategic PMO Programme Leader

BDO Llp; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

BDO is seeking an Operations PMO Programme Manager to join our PMO team in the UK. You will shape, manage and deliver large-scale programmes, aligning business goals with governance and risk controls, while engaging senior stakeholders to drive value.

You'll lead day-to-day programme management, coordinate multiple workstreams, manage budgets and risks, and ensure outputs meet time, cost and quality constraints. A proactive, collaborative approach is essential to succeed at BDO.

Qualifications

• Excellent senior stakeholder management and engagement skills.
• Experience of leading large scale or complex programmes.
• Experience of Project and Programme Planning (incl. dependency and capacity management).
• Extensive experience of change delivery approaches (e.g. Waterfall, Agile).
• Experience of developing and embedding ‘right-sized’ change delivery and governance (aligned to portfolio governance) to suit the project and stakeholder needs.
• Strong collaboration skills.
• Attention to detail, pragmatic – keep bigger picture in mind.
• A proactive approach - use own initiative to achieve timely successful outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Understanding the inflight and upcoming changes in key business area(s).
• Day to day management of the programme(s).
• Being the voice of business into the programme(s).
• Define the programme's governance framework (including following into portfolio governance).
• Ensuring underlying projects/workstreams are coordinated.
• Resolving risks and issues.
• Supporting individuals on the programme.
• Ensuring programme integrity and coherence, joining people together to resolve queries or obstacles.
• Monitoring programme's budget, monitoring expenditure etc.
• Help appoint additional staff into the programme and underlying projects / activities.
• Liaison with design authority / architecture teams / other IT teams / risk / dependent projects and product teams / suppliers.
• Ensuring outputs meet requirements within time, quality, cost constraints (and timely escalation of risks if not).
• Regular reporting to your sponsor and other governance forums.
• Effective stakeholder engagement (in liaison with sponsors).

Skills

Stakeholder management

Programme leadership

Programme planning

Governance & controls

Risk management

Budget management

Cross-functional collaboration

Attention to detail

Tools

Waterfall

Agile

Job description

BDO is seeking an Operations PMO Programme Manager to join our PMO team in the UK. You will shape, manage and deliver large-scale programmes, aligning business goals with governance and risk controls, while engaging senior stakeholders to drive value.

You'll lead day-to-day programme management, coordinate multiple workstreams, manage budgets and risks, and ensure outputs meet time, cost and quality constraints. A proactive, collaborative approach is essential to succeed at BDO.