PMO Manager in City of Westminster

Kennedys is seeking a PMO Manager to join its Change Team based in London. The successful candidate will play a key role in managing and governing a portfolio of change projects across the Firm, ensuring projects are delivered effectively, consistently, and in alignment with strategic objectives. The Change Team is responsible for the delivery of change across the global firm, working collaboratively with Legal and Business Services Teams in all offices. The team supports the end-to-end delivery of change, from discovery through to benefits realisation, ensuring initiatives are aligned with the Firm's strategic objectives.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with Head of Change and senior stakeholders to develop, and embed a robust PMO capability aligned to the Firm's strategic priorities.
• Help track financials across the Portfolio.
• Define, implement, and maintain consistent PMO standards, frameworks, and delivery approaches to manage dependencies, impacts, and delivery risks across initiatives.
• Maintain effective portfolio governance, including the preparation and management of supporting documentation for meetings such as Steering Committees.
• Support project leads in maintaining accurate and up-to-date project documentation across the portfolio.

Required experience

• 7+ years of experience in a PMO role within a complex, global corporate environment.
• Strong knowledge of project management methodologies.
• Tracked financials across a Portfolio.
• Strong communication skills and a diplomatic approach to problem-solving.
• Highly organised with an ability to multi-task.
• Enthusiastic team player with good communication skills, ability to work as part of a delivery-focused and proactive team.

Where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.

Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 2,750 people worldwide across 47 offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and America we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field. Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.

We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.

What do we have to offer?

We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference. Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable, straightforward, supportive, distinctive and ambitious. Our values are at the core of who we are and what make us a great firm to work with and for.

The Firm recognises the value of investing in our people's development and believes our culture and values contribute to the quality of our work and of our client relationships. With a culture of on-the-job and experiential learning, peer to peer learning, mentoring, resources and tools that enable you to drive your career, we can support your development in your current and future roles. A variety of other opportunities are available including secondments to clients and our global offices.

We strive to celebrate diversity, empower our people and ensure everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. We've created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work and trust, where diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority. We recognise that many of our people want to work for an employer that is aligned to their values, which is why we are building an inclusive culture, decarbonising our operations and supporting our people to thrive at work. Our people are the key to driving this change and helping us to make a difference to our clients, our people and the communities in which we live and work.

Kennedys is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. We expect all employees to be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures within their jurisdiction, including those relating to Information Security, Data Protection and Quality Management, refer any breach promptly to Risk & Compliance and to complete all mandatory training when requested.