At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and manage a portfolio of low carbon infrastructure projects with clear visibility and governance.
- Company: Dynamic organisation in the UK's low carbon infrastructure sector, expanding rapidly.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, performance bonus, matched pension, private medical insurance, and travel insurance.
- Other info: Hybrid working model with opportunities for career growth in a vital industry.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on major projects while influencing strategic decisions.
- Qualifications: Proven programme management experience and strong planning skills, ideally with relevant qualifications.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 75000 £ per year.
A growing organisation operating within the UK's low carbon infrastructure sector is expanding its programme management capability as it moves a significant portfolio of projects through development and delivery. This is a senior hands-on position with responsibility for establishing consistent programme controls across a complex portfolio, providing senior leadership with clear visibility of programme status, resources, risks and commercial progress.
The Role
As Head of Programme Management Office, you will own the portfolio-level controls that bring multiple projects together into a single view. You will be responsible for:
- Integrated master programme management across multiple projects
- Resource planning, stage gates, governance and portfolio reporting
- Providing senior stakeholders with clear delivery assurance and commercial insight
Key Responsibilities
- Own the integrated master programme, tracking interdependencies, critical paths and portfolio sequencing
- Establish consistent governance, reporting standards, stage gates and approval processes across the portfolio
- Maintain oversight of programme risks, resources, funding requirements and key commercial milestones
What We're Looking For
- Proven programme management experience across complex multi-workstream infrastructure, energy or similar projects
- Strong integrated programme planning skills using Microsoft Project or equivalent, with the ability to manage cross-project programmes and resource visibility
- Strong commercial awareness with experience understanding project financials, funding structures and investment decisions
Desirable Experience
- Formal project or programme management qualification such as PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent
- Experience within district heating, utilities or low carbon infrastructure development
- Experience with public grant funding mechanisms and managing programme compliance alongside commercial delivery
Why Consider It?
This is an opportunity to take ownership of programme management across a growing portfolio of major low carbon infrastructure projects. You will have significant influence over how projects are planned, governed and controlled while providing senior leadership with the information needed to make timely decisions.
Head of Project Management Office employer: Electus Recruitment Solutions
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