PMO Manager
| Job Type | Temporary / Contract |
| Location | Gaydon |
| Area | Gaydon, UK |
| Sector | Design - Project Manager |
| Salary | Market related |
| Currency | GBP |
| Start Date | |
| Advertiser | Jack Slater |
| Job Ref | 6706 |
| Job Views | 5 |
- Description
Our OEM Client based in Gaydon, is searching for a PMO Manager to join their team, Inside IR35. This is a maternity cover contract position with a proposed end date of 31st March 2027.
Umbrella Pay Rate: £38.94 per hour.
Duties:
General Program Management Office (PMO) is accountable for providing central expertise, support, and control for an organization's projects/programs including:
- Developing program / project management best practices/templates and providing training/mentoring to project teams.
- Monitoring dependencies across multiple inter-related projects.
- Gathering and reporting consolidated project status and financial information to leadership
- In some organizations may serve as a central governing body to review/audit adherence to methodologies, budgets, and timing
- In some organizations may provide full staffing and management for the organization's major projects / programs.
Responsibilities typically include:
- Policy and strategy implementation for short-term results (1 year or less).
- Problems faced are difficult to moderately complex.
- Influences others outside of own job area regarding policies, practices and procedures.
Essential Skills, Experience and Knowledge Required:
- Proven track record of delivering complex software programmes in Agile environment with global cross-functional teams, on time and within budget.
- Significant experience working in a technical environment with cross functional teams.
- A strong, communication, analytical and problem-solving skills to identify how one issue can impact on another and put in place the required interventions through support or from own knowledge base.
- Significant experience of project management in the software development environments.
- Ability to communicate with individuals from both technical and non-technical backgrounds and present content in a meaningful, clear and concise way.
- Ability to coach teams to be self-organising and consistent velocity.
- Experienced with Agile Frameworks - (SCRUM, Kanban, SAFE…) and Agile planning tools such as Jira and Confluence.
- Formal project management certification an advantage (Agile PSM, SAFe, PMP, Prince2).
- Understanding of Software Development processes and continuous delivery.
