PMO Manager
London
£60000 - £65000 per annum
Your responsibilities will be to:
* Lead the efficient management and governance of UK Programme Office, by controlling project tollgates.
* Lead key change programs across UK and measures progress against the plan and, with the Project Manager, takes action to ensure results are achieved, and exceeded where possible; focuses on quality and review requirements and builds on feedback.
* Produce effective progress reports for assigned projects to keep management appraised of project status, major issues, scope changes, resource changes and milestone achievements or misses
* Support the development and implementation of business initiatives across the Business
* Ensure overarching strategic objectives are turned into relevant plans, objectives and measures for the Business
* Ensure effective sharing of information and best practices across the Business and with key stakeholders
* This role has responsibility for budgetary monitoring and reporting with support from the Project Director and Workstream Leads.
* Develop close and effective working relationships with Global Business and Functions / Regional business management teams
* Support relationships with nominated executives within respective Regions / Countries / Functions / Global Businesses, to ensure common understanding of critical issues
* Build close links to other Global / Regional functions to ensure well informed Group / Regional perspective on best practice sharing.
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate for this role will have:
* experience working in relevant environment/s, i.e. Fast paced, pressurised with tight deadlines
* Ideally having previous experience within financial services
* Past working experience as a Lead Project Management Officer (PMO)
* Excellent written and spoken communication skills with experience of successfully influencing others, negotiating effectively and winning over audiences with compelling and persuasive presentations
* Built effective networks both internally and externally and created opportunities for others to work collaboratively.