Description
A Leading Life & Pensions Organisation is looking to recruit a PMO Manager on a long term contractual basis. Reporting into the Programme Manager, this role requires extensive/proven experience working with/influencing Key Stakeholders within the business.
Key deliverables:
- To establish and effectively manage the Programme Office function including governance, control and reporting mechanisms, and all control documentation on behalf of the Programme Manager;
- To provide oversight at a programme level, which spans a number of projects and multiple work streams
- To support the Programme Manager in all aspects of project management and delivery.
Other responsibilities to include:
- Work with the Work stream Leads to document the TORs/Charters and prepare robust Project Plans and Key Milestones, ensuring that Deliverable Sign-off Criteria are agreed.
- Assist the Programme Manager in producing an overall programme plan, ensuring that critical paths, dependencies and assumptions are identified and then managed appropriately.
- Ensure the ongoing development and maintenance of Project Plans and other documentation appropriate to the needs of the Programme and the business environment.
- Develop and implement the Governance and Reporting strategy appropriate to the needs of the Programme and the business environment;
- Manage the monitoring, tracking and reporting of Work stream progress, referring slippage against plan to the Programme Manager for awareness/action;
- Develop Steering Group reports and other key Management Information reports and prepare those reports on an on-going basis.
- Develop and maintain effective mechanisms to facilitate the identification, assessment, prioritisation and management of risks to the programme's objectives;
- Devise, implement and operate effective change control mechanisms;
- Track acceptance of Programme documentation and Deliverables, ensuring the operation of effective configuration management standards and audit trails;
- Coordination of programme related activities such as organising meetings and other programme related events, creating minutes/action plans, maintaining records and managing the invoicing process etc
The successful applicant will demonstrate:
§ Experience of project/programme support in the Life Assurance industry is advantageous
§ Ability to interact and negotiate/influence at senior level
§ Ability to mentor and coach Project Support Managers in project and programme office techniques;
§ Solid project planning and organising skills with the ability to facilitate planning workshops;
§ Experience of configuration management/documentation management methods;
§ Knowledge of governance, control and reporting mechanisms to an auditable standard
§ Knowledge and experience of PMO Management across multiple programme management methodologies;