PMO Manager

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.