At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead PMO governance, manage project controls, and provide insights for complex projects.
- Company: Growing utilities business with a focus on innovation and performance.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, hybrid work options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic environment with opportunities to improve processes and drive project success.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in project delivery and governance within the utilities sector.
- Qualifications: Experience in PMO roles, strong financial awareness, and excellent stakeholder management skills.
The predicted salary is between 49500 - 60500 £ per year.
We are looking for an experienced PMO Lead to join a growing utilities business and take ownership of programme governance, reporting, financial tracking and project controls across a portfolio of complex projects. This is a hands-on PMO leadership position, working closely with senior stakeholders, Project Managers and wider delivery teams to provide clear visibility of programme performance, risks, resources and financial position. The successful candidate will have previous experience working within the utilities sector and a strong understanding of project and programme governance. Experience across budgets, financial reporting, project tracking and portfolio-level MI will be highly valued.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and maintain robust PMO governance frameworks across a portfolio of projects and programmes.
- Establish and maintain consistent project controls, processes, reporting standards and governance routines.
- Manage RAID logs, ensuring risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies are identified, monitored and escalated appropriately.
- Produce high-quality MI, KPI and programme reporting for senior management and governance forums.
- Prepare programme and project packs, including RAG reporting, milestones, financial performance, risks, dependencies and actions.
- Track project budgets, forecasts, expenditure and financial performance, highlighting variances and potential risks.
- Maintain accurate project trackers, plans, milestones and delivery information across multiple workstreams.
- Support resource and capacity planning across the programme portfolio.
- Coordinate governance meetings, ensuring actions and decisions are captured and followed through to completion.
- Work closely with Project Managers to ensure projects are operating within agreed governance, financial and reporting frameworks.
- Monitor programme performance and provide data-driven insight to support senior-level decision making.
- Identify opportunities to improve PMO processes, controls and reporting.
- Support procurement, supplier management, purchase orders and commercial tracking where required.
- Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders and delivery teams across the business.
- Provide challenge and assurance to Project Managers where projects are off-track or outside agreed tolerances.
About You
We are looking for someone with a strong PMO background who can operate confidently in a complex, fast-paced utilities environment.
Essential
- Previous experience working within the utilities sector is essential.
- Proven experience in a PMO, Programme Office or Portfolio Office position.
- Strong understanding of project and programme governance.
- Experience managing RAID, project tracking, reporting and governance processes.
- Strong financial awareness, including experience with budgets, forecasting, expenditure or financial tracking.
- Experience producing MI, KPI and management reporting for senior stakeholders.
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects/workstreams simultaneously.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to challenge, influence and provide assurance to Project Managers and senior stakeholders.
- Strong Excel and Microsoft Office skills.
Desirable
- Experience within energy, electricity networks, infrastructure or regulated utilities.
- Experience supporting large-scale transformation or capital programmes.
- Experience with Power BI, Jira, Azure DevOps, MS Project or similar project management tools.
- Experience with procurement, suppliers, POs or commercial project controls.
- PRINCE2, P3O, Agile, Scrum or similar project/programme qualifications.
What You'll Bring
You'll be someone who can bring structure, visibility and control to a busy project environment. You'll be comfortable working at both strategic and operational levels - from maintaining detailed project trackers and financial information through to presenting clear programme-level insight to senior leadership. This is an excellent opportunity for an established PMO professional to take ownership of a key function within a growing utilities business and play a significant role in improving project delivery, governance and performance.
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