PMO Manager - Maternity Cover
Our OEM client based in Gaydon is searching for a PMO Manager to join their team, Inside IR35. This is a maternity cover contract position with a proposed end date of 31st March 2027.
Umbrella Pay Rate: £38.94 per hour.
Duties
General Program Management Office (PMO) is accountable for providing central expertise, support, and control for an organization's projects/programs including:
- Developing program / project management best practices/templates and providing training/mentoring to project teams.
- Monitoring dependencies across multiple inter related projects.
- Gathering and reporting consolidated project status and financial information to leadership.
- In some organizations may serve as a central governing body to review/audit adherence to methodologies, budgets, and timing.
- In some organizations may provide full staffing and management for the organization's major projects / programs.
Responsibilities
- Policy and strategy implementation for short term results (1 year or less).
- Problems faced are difficult to moderately complex.
- Influences others outside of own job area regarding policies, practices and procedures.
Essential Skills, Experience and Knowledge Required
- Proven track record of delivering complex software programmes in Agile environment with global cross functional teams, on time and within budget.
- Significant experience working in a technical environment with cross functional teams.
- A strong communication, analytical and problem solving skill set to identify how one issue can impact another and put in place the required interventions through support or from own knowledge base.
- Significant experience of project management in software development environments.
- Ability to communicate with individuals from both technical and non technical backgrounds and present content in a meaningful, clear and concise way.
- Ability to coach teams to be self organising and maintain consistent velocity.
- Experienced with Agile Frameworks (SCRUM, Kanban, SAFE ) and Agile planning tools such as Jira and Confluence.
- Formal project management certification an advantage (Agile PSM, SAFe, PMP, Prince2).
- Understanding of Software Development processes and continuous delivery.