At a Glance
- Tasks: Drive PMO excellence and manage deliverables in a fast-paced, structured environment.
- Company: Join a major organisation delivering critical programmes across multiple locations.
- Benefits: Competitive day rate, hybrid working, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: 6-month contract with excellent career development potential.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by improving governance frameworks and engaging with senior stakeholders.
- Qualifications: Strong PMO background and experience in regulated environments required.
Requirements
- Strong PMO background gained within complex programmes or portfolios.
- Current SC Clearance.
- Proven experience establishing and maintaining PMO governance frameworks.
- Demonstrable experience managing programme deliverables within highly regulated or structured environments.
- Strong knowledge of document management, configuration control, and reporting processes.
- Advanced skills in data management, reporting, and dashboard creation.
- Excellent organisational skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- Experience managing competing priorities across multiple teams and workstreams.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and challenge at senior levels.
- Experience working within programmes requiring governance, compliance, or contractual oversight.
- Experience within defence, government, technology, aerospace, engineering, infrastructure, or other highly regulated sectors.
- Knowledge of programme delivery methodologies and portfolio governance frameworks.
Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain robust document management, repository structures, and configuration control processes.
- Drive PMO best practice across the programme through leadership, expertise, and governance oversight.
- Own and manage the end-to-end deliverables lifecycle, ensuring milestones are achieved on time and to the required quality standards.
- Coordinate activities across multiple workstreams, ensuring programme alignment and effective stakeholder communication.
- Ensure deliverables are reviewed, approved, and controlled in accordance with governance requirements.
- Manage programme documentation, actions, decisions, risks, and deliverables throughout the programme lifecycle.
- Develop and maintain programme reporting, dashboards, and management information packs.
- Monitor progress against programme objectives and proactively identify risks, issues, and dependencies.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives across PMO processes and governance frameworks.
- Engage confidently with stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership teams, to drive accountability and successful outcomes.
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We are supporting a major organisation delivering a large-scale, business-critical programme operating across multiple locations and stakeholder groups.
We are seeking an experienced PMO Specialist to play a key role in driving PMO excellence, governance, reporting, and document management across a complex programme environment.
This is a 6-month contract based in Whiteley with hybrid working, offered at a competitive day rate inside IR35.
This opportunity is suited to an accomplished PMO professional who thrives in structured, fast-paced environments and enjoys establishing best practice, improving governance frameworks, and engaging with senior stakeholders.
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