Program Management Office Consultant

PMO Senior Consultant

M4 Corridor (within 50 mins Junction 17)

Negotiable Package – Hybrid working.

This PMO role within a growing SME business within Defence, IT and Cyber fields, will combine operational coordination with assured delivery alignment, and people development – so that not only that work is fully aligned and completed, but that the business as a whole continues to grow in capacity, capability, and effectiveness.

Key Functions & Deliverables - Coordination, Synchronisation, Capacity Building

1. Cross-Project Coordination

• Maintains a single view of all active client engagements.
• Aligns timelines, milestones, and deliverables.
• Identifies clashes and sequencing risks early.
• Acts as the coordination hub between project leads.

2. Resource Scheduling & Utilisation

• Allocates consultants across concurrent projects.
• Balances utilisation and avoids over/under-allocation.
• Adjusts assignments dynamically as priorities shift.

3. Delivery Synchronisation

• Aligns interdependent workstreams.
• Coordinates shared SMEs across projects.
• Manages handoffs and ensures continuity.

4. Governance & Standards

• Provides simple, consistent ways of working.
• Supplies practical templates and tools.
• Applies proportionate structure (informed by Project Management Institute practices where useful).

5. Centralised Reporting & Visibility

• Delivers clear oversight across all engagements.
• Tracks progress, risks, and utilisation.
• Enables timely decision-making by leadership.

6. Risk, Issue & Dependency Management

• Identifies and manages cross-project risks.
• Tracks dependencies and resolves conflicts.
• Focuses on fast, pragmatic issue resolution.

7. Client Delivery Assurance

• Supports consistent, high-quality delivery.
• Provides guidance to project leads where needed.
• Intervenes early on at-risk engagements.

8. Financial & Commercial Tracking

• Monitors budgets, cash outflow rates, and margins.
• Tracks utilisation and revenue performance.
• Flags scope and commercial risks.

9. Knowledge Sharing & Reuse

• Promotes reuse of assets, templates, and approaches.
• Shares lessons learned across engagements.
• Improves efficiency and consistency.

10. Capacity Building

• Embeds good project management practices within day-to-day delivery.
• Supports consultants in structuring and executing client work.
• Reinforces consistency in approach across engagements.
• Contributes to a more scalable and self-sufficient delivery model.
• Supports business growth.

11. Training & Development

• Provides targeted, and informal, training on core consulting and project delivery skills.
• Delivers practical sessions (e.g. planning, stakeholder management, risk handling).
• Identifies development needs across the team.
• Supports continuous professional development aligned to business needs.

12. Line/Team Management

• Provides line management for junior consultants.
• Sets objectives, monitors performance, and supports progression.
• Conducts regular feedback and performance reviews.
• Supports wellbeing, engagement, and retention.
• Helps shape career pathways within the consultancy.

13. Software and Workflow Tools

• Effective familiarity with all regular office software products and specific project management toolsets (e.g. Jira, Microsoft Project).
• Ensures consistent and coherent usage and visibility across the business.

Please express an initial interest through the provision of either an up-to-date CV or the link to an appropriately extensive and current Linked In profile.

You must either currently hold UK security clearance to SC level, or be a UK passport holder and have been resident in UK for the last 5 continuous years to be able to gain (or regain) UK SC clearance.