PMO Lead in Belfast

About Us

3173 is a privately owned UK firm of pensions experts with clients throughout the UK, serviced from offices in London, Belfast, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and Leeds. The 3173 Group of companies includes Dalriada Trustees Limited (Dalriada), one of the UKs largest professional pension scheme trustee companies. Spence & Partners provides full pension actuarial, consulting, investment consulting and administration services that provide simply smarter solutions for trustees, employers and members, and Mantle reimagines the traditional models of defined benefit pensions administration and actuarial valuation software.

The 3173 Culture

Our primary aim is to provide interesting, worthwhile and healthy careers for all our people; we believe that this emphasis sets us apart from our competitors. We are defined by our ethos and by our goal: Our ethos is an individual and collective commitment achieved through carefully balancing responsibility with freedom and flexibility, all of which is underpinned by a willingness to work interdependently. When we get this balance right, it is how we do our best work. We look after our staff first and foremost, but for a commercial purpose, which is to deliver great service profitably. By focusing on our goal, we provide the best outcomes for pension scheme members, trustees, and employers.

About You

As PMO Lead, you will be accountable for the PMO function and its consistent use across the Group and its associated businesses. The role will focus on the design, implementation, adoption, enhancement and management of the PMO and its processes to ensure high levels of quality assurance and financial management. You will also be responsible for defining the goals and objectives of the PMO function and for developing a plan to achieve them. You will be a proven and experienced PMO leader capable of energising the engagement and utilisation of the PMO framework to enhance the quality, consistency, monitoring and reporting of change delivery. You will be a highly competent communicator who is adept at navigating a diverse group of stakeholders, fostering a culture of collaboration to achieve project outcomes.

Responsibilities & Criteria

• Lead on the development, provision, appropriate utilisation and adoption of the PMO framework across all projects for the management of project risks, issues, and dependencies across cross-functional teams.
• Enable solid governance standards to ensure adequate project management documentation, reporting and plans are in place.
• Embed best practices, advocating the PMO framework and processes to ensure they are adhered to across projects and change delivery.
• Ensure rigorous governance and oversight, aligned with business, regulatory and client-specific requirements.
• Produce regular content reporting for senior leadership and executive committees on project metrics including status, risks, financials and resourcing to enable efficient monitoring of progress against annual plans and ensure cross portfolio benefits tracking and realisation.
• Work with change colleagues across the group businesses to enable efficient, consistent and successful change deliveries.
• Foster a culture of change awareness, readiness and adaptability across the Group.
• Provision reporting and oversight of the programme budgets to ensure they are tightly and effectively managed.

Core Competencies

• An experienced PMO leader with significant experience of change portfolio management and control processes, ideally within pensions, financial services, or professional services.
• Ability to lead and develop a PMO function, enabling successful project governance and adoption of best practice delivery including projects delivery status, risk and issues.
• Highly proficient in recognised project methodologies (e.g. PRINCE2, PMP, Agile, or similar).
• Strong financial acumen with an ability to oversee and report upon budgets across programmes.
• Strong leadership, influencing, negotiation and stakeholder management skills at all levels.
• Highly proficient communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to convey complex concepts clearly and succinctly to senior stakeholders, including C-suite audiences.
• Comfortable operating in a complex, fast-paced, and compliance-focused environment.

Reporting Structure

Reports to: Group Head of Change
Direct reports: None

Circumstances

Location: Belfast
Working hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week with additional hours as and when required. All roles are subject to a six-month probationary period and all prospective employees are required to complete an Access NI check. As part of the pre-hire process, the successful candidate will be subject to reference checking security vetting.

3173 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applying with a disability or long-term health condition? As part of our belief that we benefit from the differences among us, we are committed to increasing the representation of disabled colleagues and want to remove any barriers or challenges that get in the way of candidates with a disability or long-term health condition from applying to work with us. As part of this commitment, we guarantee to automatically interview anyone with a disability who meets the minimum criteria. If there is support or an adjustment that we can provide to enable you to be at your best during the recruitment and selection process, we encourage you to advise us in good time so that we may make suitable arrangements. We understand that being open with us may feel uncomfortable, so please only share with us the information that you are comfortable to share, and rest assured that we will use this only to provide you with the right support. Any information you give us will be treated completely confidentially. To discuss this further please call and ask to speak to a member of the People & Culture team.