FILLED (ref # DB6082), PMO Planning & Monitoring Lead

Programme Planning & Monitoring Lead,
Business Separation Programme,
Interim, 6 months +
Gatwick, Immediate start,
up to £600 per day

Role Summary

Following on from a corporate acquisition, our client is in the midst of a multi-million pound transformation programme designed to separate the systems and processes of the new company from the selling company and subsequently transform its operations.

A Programme PMO office governs the programmes and projects within this transformation portfolio. This office immediately requires a high calibre PMO lead to firstly take on the planning and monitoring of the overall programme plan (50 + projects), and then to take on a lead PMO role with several major workstreams within the transformation programme.

Application Deadline

This is an urgent requirement, so please ensure that your CV is submitted ASAP or by 9 am on Thursday 10th March at the latest.

Role Detail

This role requires the PMO Lead to initially provide hands-on support to continue the development of the overall programme plan. The role will then evolve into a PMO Lead working with Programme delivery managers on one or more of the workstreams in the transformation programme (e.g. Back office, operations, commercial).

Specific tasks as follows:

Planning Development Support

- Provides assistance to the Project Manager to build the individual project schedule (work breakdown, durations and milestones)

- Assist at Toll Gate review Meetings

- Provides support to the Project Manager to complete the project plans, financial reports

- Establish project critical path and highlight program dependencies to avoid slippage

- Develop and maintain overall Project Independence program plan

- Create and maintain a program level dependencies matrix across each of the verticals to enable an impact assessment to be easily performed

- Create and maintain a program level risk register across each of the verticals performing qualitative and quantitative risk analysis to establish the priority of risk responses

- Create and maintain an issues log that contains escalated issues from each of the vertical projects and program level issues that require immediate actions from the Program Management team.

Program Monitoring and Control

- Agree milestone baselines with Project Manager and track progress

- Maintain decisions logs / minutes

- Perform milestone reviews as agreed with the Project Manager to determine status

- Highlight potential slippage of project milestones and assess the overall program impact

- Perform ongoing risk management to assess existing risks and identify new risks

- Provide input into overall program status on milestones, risks, issues and dependencies

- Capture key lessons learned in project planning development, risk and issue management

- Attend the Vertical Project Review Boards to represent the PMO and assess the impact to the overall program of any issues raised during these meetings

- Maintain project register, resource list and their mapping to projects / tasks

- Maintain project accounting for the portfolio of the business unit.

Key Skills and Requirements

The successful candidate will have deep experience programme planning and reporting skills, but have also worked at programme office lead / manager level. A high calibre PMO who is
tenacious, resilient, resourceful, has gravitas, and is comfortable working in a matrix organisation.

* 8 years + experience in a PMO Manager / Lead role with excellent suite of PMO skills
* Deep project planning & monitoring experience of 50+project programme plans (using
MSProject)
* Excellent communicator with exceptional stakeholder management skills at all level
* Degree qualified (engineering / accounting degree would be advantageous)
* Trained in formal Project Management qualifications (APM, PMI, PMBOK etc)