PMO Lead

at  RS Group

KEY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

• Positive, ‘can do’ approach, open minded to new ways of working and agent for change
• Willingness to learn and get involved in project delivery
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills, able to work across functions, geographies and cultures
• Excellent planning, prioritisation and organisational skills
• High degree of collaboration across the organisation at all levels
• Experience of working in a Project environment, Programme Management Office or Project delivery team within an organisation, delivering large scale complex changes across multiple geographies. Knowledge of good-practice project, programme and portfolio management methodologies and approaches e.g., waterfall, Agile, etc.
• Experience in the development of project and programme management standards, processes and guidelines, and their continued development to meet organisational need
• Excellent communication skills, able to communicate confidently and effectively at all levels of the business and to various stakeholder groups, both in writing and verbally
• Able to challenge constructively, build credibility and work with integrity at all levels within the organisation
• Able to operate effectively within levels of ambiguity
• Confident with data analysis and insight
• Continuous improvement - track record of identifying and delivering improvements
• Awareness of cultural environments and able to adapt approach accordingly
• Strong inter-personal skills, able to provide robust challenge but also build supportive relationships with delivery teams and senior management
• Effective written and oral communication skills
• Ability to effectively use Microsoft Project, Visio, PowerPoint, SharePoint and Excel
• Experience of Keyedin would be a plus

The initiatives will be a mixture but likely to be more people & process change than large IT transformations.

Key objectives include:

• Establishing and embedding the PMO capability for Solutions and Services and supporting the delivery of the portfolio of initiatives.
• Monitoring & maintaining the plan, and progress tracking of initiative delivery, risks, issues, dependencies and capacity management
• Using data and analysis to proactively identify and resolve issues, to enable the removal of barriers to execution and allowing for efficient decision making
• Undertaking assurance activities to maintain quality, minimise the impact of issues and ensuring the changes adheres to company policies and procedure.
• Managing the Small Change process to ensure timely delivery, with quantifiable business outcomes.
• Producing programme reporting
• Liaising with other PMO and delivery organisations across the group to ensure alignment of plans & dependencies
• Undertaking lessons learned activities working to drive continuous improvement in outcomes and processes