PMO Lead

PMO Lead – Solutions & Services

Permanent

Grade: HAY11

This role will lead the Portfolio Management Office for Solutions & Services Initiative Portfolio. The role requires a passionate and driven programme and project professional who can deliver effective, timely and quality Programme Office support and analysis.

This is a hybrid role, combining working remotely with attending our Corby or London offices.

 
What you will be doing:

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

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

We are RS Group
At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.

Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.

We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.

We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities – to solve problems.

We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do. 

Come and join us and over 9000 employees worldwide – and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.

Are you ready to explore the possibilities?

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