Programme Management Office Lead

4 weeks ago


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

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled Programme Management Office Lead to join our Enterprise Project Management Office team. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for delivering full lifecycle governance, assurance, and support services across our Group Transformation change portfolio.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage the Enterprise PMO team to effectively operate the PMO service catalogue and increase the maturity of programme and project delivery and controls within Group Transformation and across JD overall.
  • Work closely with Group Transformation project and programme teams through the full delivery lifecycle to implement effective PMO services and enhance delivery success.
  • 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 and highlight areas of concern and intervention points.

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 Us:

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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