Devonshire Hayes have partnered with a leading financial services client to help them secure an PMO Lead. You'll be responsible for ensuring Programmes are running smoothly on budget, and on time. You'll liaise with Workstream Leads to gather, analyse, and monitor programme data, as well as support programme delivery.

12 month Fixed Term Contract

2-3 days per week on-site, regular travel to London required

You will be tasked with the following:

• You will have the capability to facilitate all aspects of programme management including meetings, workshops, and documentation essential to show progress against plans.
• You will set up and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders including technology leadership teams, Line of Business Change Sponsors and Product Owners.
• Gather and analyse workstream data to identify weaknesses and resolve issues
• Liaise with workstream team members and provide suggestions or solutions to unforeseen issues when needed.
• Ensure workstream strategies are following company standards, as well as compliance and risk.
• Drive teams and set pace, ensuring teams are working towards delivery commitments.
• Engage in elements of risk management including managing and tracking risk mitigation.
• Manage all resource and cost forecasting including month end financial processes and timely submission of accruals
• Be integral to planning process, identify and track key milestones, critical path activities and key dependencies.
• Monitor workstreams within the programme to ensure timely execution and completion of deliverables.
• Prepare project status reports for management review.

To be successful in this role, you should:

• Previous experience as PMO Lead or Project Manager
• Excellent knowledge of project management strategies, processes, and tools.
• Great critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Ability to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Ability to analyse a range of complex data and make decisions based on analytical findings.
• Experience of working in an organisation using bi-modal operation of agile/non-agile environments.
• Self-Starter who can take a continuous approach to planning, forecasting, estimating, managing uncertainty, metrics, measurements, contingency planning, and road-mapping.
• Demonstrable experience supporting complex delivery across product development and software delivery life cycles.