PMO Lead

4 days ago


Reading, United Kingdom Thames Water Full time

**Please note this is an initial 6 month contract role, inside of IR35 regulations**
**Who are we?**
Thames Water is the UK’s largest water and wastewater company. We make a daily difference to our 15 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km’s of pipes,to keep taps flowing and toilets flushing. We are an essential serviceand have operated throughout the Covid19 pandemic.
At Thames Water, every one of our actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to daily life, and that means our business is always open.
**What you will be doing**
This role will take responsibility for helping to shape Enterprise PMO strategy and lead the implementation of strategy and governance controls at Programme level
You will be leading the implementation of PM methodologies including Agile as developed by Thames Water, ensuring standards and compliance with reporting tools that drive successful delivery across all projects and products to inform both Programme executionand contribution to the overall status of the wider Digital Transformation portfolio.
Define and provide support for Programme director(s) directly through leading the development of PMO governance at programme level, identifying and managing Programme Risks and Issues to conclusion or escalation with action plans and ownership.- Implement the standards to control programme inter-dependencies and dependency coordination across all projects/products associated with the programme and wider portfolio.
- Define and annotate the approach needed for implementing a SPOC approach for the Programme areas in relation to communication, governance meeting coordination and secretariat duties.
- Determine a comprehensive process and service that defines how Programme Roadmap and Milestone Tracking should be conducted and executed.
- Define processes, responsibilities and structures that enable Implementation Planning with Programme Management, Project Managers and Delivery Leads.
- Determine and establish Executive Programme reporting including the definition of necessary reports and dashboards and implement associated tooling.
- Enable programme benefit tracking that connects seamlessly with central PMO finance and their accountabilities for Benefits realisation management.

**You will likely have experience in the following**:
Experience of managing the coordination of a large and complex hybrid portfolio of projects, and product delivery with direct influence of Project Managers / Delivery Leads together with proven experience of senior stakeholder engagement


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