AddressJob Title: Senior PMO Manager
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Edinburgh or Alderley Edge
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 21st January 2024
Group Transformation aims to be a catalyst for change, to drive innovation and operational excellence within Royal London. We bring together colleagues from Change, Procurement, Workplace, Rectifications and Data Management.
We work across Royal London to deliver the Group’s strategic ambitions. In partnership with the different business areas, we work to embed agility, adaptability and customer/colleague focus to deliver sustainable growth. We make sure that we deliver great outcomes that our customers and members benefit from, and we also make sure we get the best value from all of our procurement interactions.
As Senior PMO Manager – Delivery Oversight you will support the Head of PMO by leading the Delivery PMO team. The primary objective is to lead on oversight, challenge, and assurance activity across the RLG Change Portfolio. The Portfolio is executed utilising both Agile and Waterfall methodologies, you will ensure the appropriate Governance, insights delivery and outcome reporting are timely and accurate in line with methodology to drive decision making across the Portfolio.
About the role
- Understand the overall demand for delivery PMO support and ensure the team is appropriately sized and capable to meet these evolving demands
- Ensure that the Delivery PMO are champions of the best practice, standards, processes, templates, and tools
- Offer independent oversight and challenge of the performance of change delivery
- Support in the identification of and rollout of continuous improvement of effective P3M standards
- Ensure timely and quality flow of information between the individual change teams and the overall Portfolio
About you
- Experience in the management of portfolio, programme, and project lifecycles
- Experience in leading a team and monitoring, measuring, and improving capability
- Strong understanding of risk management, control & assurance frameworks
- Strong understanding of project planning, resource management and financial management
- Understanding of agile change frameworks, and the role of PMO within
- Ability to stay up to date on PMO and wider change management industry trends
- Project management or PMO qualification such as P3O or PMP, etc
About Royal London
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits
Inclusion, diversity and belonging
We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.
