SwapClear & Listed Rates, Senior PMO Manager

lseg; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is seeking a Senior PMO Manager to drive governance, risk management and delivery excellence across a complex technology portfolio. You will partner with Portfolio, Programme and Project Managers, Risk, and the CTO function to ensure robust oversight, resource optimisation and alignment with group standards.

The role combines portfolio governance with change and transformation responsibilities, setting roadmaps, facilitating release governance, and coaching

Qualifications

• Strong experience in PMO, portfolio, programme, or project management within a complex technology or engineering environment.
• Proven ability to manage portfolio-level governance, risk, and reporting frameworks.
• Expertise in resource management and capacity planning.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels.
• Demonstrated experience in implementing change and driving process improvements.
• Leadership experience, including mentoring or managing delivery professionals.

Responsibilities

• Governance, planning and risk management across the portfolio, tracking delivery health and reducing risk.
• Lead cross-functional meetings with key stakeholders and ensure corrective actions.
• Align priorities to strategic delivery and manage product portfolio backlog with Agile practices.
• Facilitate risk assessments and gate major change releases with required sign-offs.
• Coach and lead project managers to achieve consistent delivery results.

Skills

PMO experience

Portfolio governance

Stakeholder management

Change management

Leadership

Job description

LCH Ltd partners with market participants globally to offer clearing services for a diverse range of asset classes, including equities, fixed income, FX, rates and repos. With continuous innovations and the most sophisticated risk management standards attainable in the market today, combined with the flexibility of our 'open' model, LCH sets the bar for choice and efficiency in the marketplace.

ROLE SUMMARY

The SwapClear & Listed Rates Senior PMO Manager plays a critical role in driving governance, risk management, and delivery excellence across the portfolio. This role partners closely with Portfolio / Programme / Project Managers, the Business Control Office and First / Second Line Risk to ensure robust oversight of delivery, resource optimisation, and adherence to LSEG Group standards. This role also includes elements of Programme Manager responsibilities to achieve strategic objectives and transformational change. The role provides visibility of portfolio health, supports strategic decision-making, and ensures consistent implementation of best practices across project delivery.

Portfolio Governance, Planning & Risk Management

• Manages and creates visibility around the holistic portfolio health and reporting, tracking and reducing delivery risk at a programme and portfolio level
• Promotes and fosters collaboration across broad categories of stakeholders (including customers), leading cross-functional meetings and gaining commitments to ensure corrective actions take place if required
• Aligns team priorities and activity to the strategic delivery and transformation direction, ensuring prioritisation of key projects and devising initiatives to support the organisation through Agile practices including managing the Product Portfolio Backlog
• Facilitate Operational Risk Assessments for change initiatives into COO and BCO functions
• Acts as a gatekeeper for major change releases, collating and running release sign off meetings and ensuring standards and health checks are maintained.

Change & Transformation Management

• Creates and monitors a change roadmap for the portfolio in partnership with the Product team and leads on the implementation of change management processes, policies and best practice alongside the CTO function
• Lead the implementation of change management processes, policies, and best practices
• Ensure effective adoption of new frameworks, tools, and delivery methodologies
• Leads and coaches project managers within the programme, setting performance and delivery expectations to yield consistent results

What You’ll Bring

• Strong experience in PMO, portfolio, programme, or project management within a complex technology or engineering environment
• Proven ability to manage portfolio-level governance, risk, and reporting frameworks
• Expertise in resource management and capacity planning
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels
• Demonstrated experience in implementing change and driving process improvements
• Leadership experience, including mentoring or managing delivery professionals

Career Stage

Manager

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership , Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone's race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build