Programme Management Office Manager

4 weeks ago


Bury, Borough of Bury, United Kingdom JD Sports Full time

As a key member of the Group Transformation function, you will work within the Enterprise PMO management team to deliver full lifecycle governance, assurance, and support services. The role will work across the Group Transformation change portfolio to manage the Enterprise PMO team and effectively operate the PMO service catalogue to increase the maturity of programme and project delivery and controls within Group Transformation and across JD overall.

You will be a key role model and lead a team of PMO Analysts to work closely with Group Transformation project and programme teams through the full delivery lifecycle to implement effective PMO services to enhance delivery success.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Work closely with the Enterprise PMO Director and other EPMO leadership colleagues to implement the Enterprise PMO strategy, services, and deliverables.
  • Operate the programme and project management frameworks and standards to deliver an effective PMO Service Catalogue.
  • Manage assurance processes to support effective change delivery across programmes and projects.
  • Work alongside delivery teams from Group Transformation and across the wider business to provide independent assurance on change activities highlighting areas of concern and intervention points.
  • Work with delivery teams to ensure all risks and issues are managed effectively providing guidance as required to help mature practices, enabling risk themes to be captured across the portfolio.

Requirements:

  • 3+ years PMO Management experience.
  • Experience in the ongoing development of governance and assurance processes across programmes and projects.
  • Experience in implementing project and change management methodologies and approaches in waterfall and agile environments.
  • Experience in identifying and implementing improvements in programme and project planning to drive critical path, milestones, dependencies, and resource requirements and forecast.
  • Experience in supporting improvements in effective reporting framework to demonstrate assurance against delivery success.

About the Company:

JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors, and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues across 3,400 stores in over 30 markets around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-first, a digital leader, and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.



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