At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the PMO for a major green infrastructure programme, driving transformation and innovation.
- Company: Join ABP, the UK's largest ports group, pivotal in the energy transition.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career development, and the chance to make a real impact.
- Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities for growth in a vital industry.
- Why this job: Be part of a transformative project that supports the UK's journey to net zero.
- Qualifications: Experience in programme management and strong problem-solving skills required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 75000 £ per year.
About ABP: ABP is the UK’s leading and largest ports group, providing essential gateways for trade and enabling green infrastructure essential for the UK’s energy transition. We are a major landlord and port operator with 21 port locations in the UK. We have 87km of Quay and 5000ha of port estate handling approximately 100 million tonnes of cargo every year. ABP handles more than a quarter of all ports industry volumes, provides support for over half the UK’s offshore wind and catalyses investment, jobs and prosperity in coastal communities. We are also a vital enabler of the UK's transformation to net zero, with exciting plans to develop our port estate so that they play a leading role in supporting the energy transition through onshore and offshore wind, hydrogen and carbon capture and storage (CCUS).
The Role: PMO Manager
The PMO Manager is responsible for establishing, leading, and continuously improving the Programme Management Office for the Future Port Talbot (FPT) Programme, one of ABP’s most strategically important multi‑year infrastructure programmes. The FPT Programme is a major, complex, multi‑disciplinary port transformation initiative with extensive engineering, operational, commercial, property and stakeholder dimensions. It will involve multiple interdependent projects, delivered through internal teams and consultant partners, with combined investment values expected in the £300m–£600m+ range.
Accountabilities:
- Design, establish, and lead the PMO structure tailored for the FPT Programme.
- Develop PMO strategy, operating model, maturity roadmap, and programme performance KPIs.
- Implement and maintain the FPT governance framework, including Review meetings, Stage Gates, Steering Groups and decision-making protocols.
- Maintain a robust suite of programme logs including decisions, assumptions, dependencies, risks and lessons learned.
- Oversee development and maintenance of the Integrated Schedule (IS) for the FPT Programme.
- Integrate schedules produced by consultant planners and internal teams, ensuring alignment with ABP standards such as coding structure, calendars, progress measurement and forecasting rules.
- Facilitate Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) for cost and schedule where required.
- Provide clear insights, delivery confidence assessments and strategic recommendations to support decision-making.
- Manage digital tools including P6, MS Project, PowerBI, risk tools and collaboration platforms.
- Support preparation of business cases, investment papers and approvals.
About you: You will ensure programme governance, controls, reporting, and assurance frameworks are consistently applied across all FPT workstreams to support ABP’s missions of Keeping Britain Trading and Enabling the Energy Transition. You have the ability to cope with uncertainty, conflict and change. You are flexible, persistent and have well-developed creative problem-solving skills. You will be able to work independently with a strong bias to getting things done. Understand the true value to the business of meeting objectives and timely delivery. You will possess a firm belief in the values of customer service and ABP’s core values of openness and honesty, teamwork and respect, along with the ambition to make a difference and exceed expectations.
