Pmo Manager

Our client is a family run business, with an amazing product and customer centric approach.  They have around 180 stores in the UK and a rapidly growing online, International and concessions business, with a major blue-chip partnership deal recently announced.  They really care about people, customers, and the communities in which they trade and are now looking for a PMO Manager to be based out of their amazing Amersham head office, focusing on supporting overseas franchise partners.  This will initially be a 12-month FTC role with scope for perm to temp, in line with growth.  The role offers hybrid working with up to six days per calendar month home-working and the rest of the time-based working with our collaborative teams. 

Working within the transformation team, the PMO Manager will help to improve delivery performance and efficiency by developing and maintaining a prioritised multi-year roadmap of projects and dependencies across the business.  You’ll create project management templates and produce stakeholder communication packs for cascading information to the wider business.

PMO Manager – Responsibilities

- Develop and maintain a multi-year delivery roadmap to support business strategy.

- Produce and maintain a change heatmap, phased over the year, to depict the areas and teams most impacted by change.

- Implement a prioritisation framework against which to assess new ideas.

- Consolidate key dependencies, risks and issues for the proactive identification and management of anything that might derail the roadmap.

- Establish an executive level dashboard to display key business KPIs, with baselines, targets and progress against targets.

- Maintain close working relationships with finance to improve the visibility of project financials.

- Gather data and produce reports and forecasts about past and future project performance.

- Document and maintain project planning processes and templates.

- Identify project highlights and lowlights for use in stakeholder communications.

PMO Manager – Required Skills

- Advanced skills in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.

- Full UK, valid driver’s licence, for occasional off-site sessions.

- A minimum of 12 months’ experience in a project management office role, ideally within a retail business or IT function, although this isn’t essential.

- Experience of working with other people/functions to meet deadlines on time.

- Skilled in scoping projects, tracking progress and benefits realisation.

- Experience of managing multiple projects/deliverables within tight timescales.

- Ideally a degree or equivalent qualification in business or project management.

- Experience of using a project planning tool would be advantageous.

- Experience of using a reporting tool like PowerBI would be beneficial.

In return for your hard work and commitment the role offers a competitive salary with bonus and additional benefits such as life cover and pension.  It also offers the chance to work in an amazing culture and environment where you will be challenged, can seek career progression, and add immediate value with your skillset.  This is pretty much a brand-new function within the business, so a blank canvass, for the right PMO project manager to work their magic.

Click apply now to be considered for their PMO Manager role and be a part of this continuing success story.