PMO Lead

Job Summary

• This is a lead role within Taylor Wimpey IT, responsible for establishing and maintaining a PMO and ensuring delivery of agreed outcomes from projects aligned with the company's overall strategic objectives.
• As a PMO Lead you will play a key role in establishing an effective and efficient PMO and managing the change portfolio controls and processes, including monitoring and reporting on progress against the portfolio plan, long range planning, capacity, financial and resource planning.
• This role will provide support to Project Managers in scoping, planning, executing, and monitoring their project to keep projects on schedule, within scope, and to budget.
• Leverage your deep understanding of project management methodologies and tools to establish good practices within the PMO to establish project management standards.
• This role will also support the development and maintenance of portfolio view of projects - plans, RAID, budgets, etc.

Primary Responsibilities

Project Management Office:

• Development and maintenance of portfolio view of projects and portfolio reporting to inform senior management of the overall health and status of change.
• Ensuring all projects and programmes follow and adhere to governance and reporting processes and procedures.
• Leverage a deep understanding of project management methodologies and tools to establish best practices within the PMO.
• Providing best-in-class resources, guidance and governance to project managers and teams, ensuring they have the necessary support to meet the needs of PMO and delivery.
• Ensuring all suppliers and those involved in delivery are providing the required governance and information to enable monitoring and reporting at portfolio level.
• Develop and implement PMO processes within the organisation, define goals and objectives, and develop a plan to achieve them.
• Providing advice, guidance and insights to Business Partners & Business to inform Business Case development & enable effective prioritisation
• Supporting with development and execution of project plans, including scope, timelines, and budgets.
• Using visual techniques for project tracking and reporting.
• Tracking activities against the project schedule, managing stakeholder involvement as appropriate.
• Agreeing constraints of cost, timescales, quality and scope with the Project Management team.
• Reviewing experiences and lessons learned from current and previous projects.
• Identify opportunities for PMO continuous improvements and implement changes.
• Helping with post-implementation review evaluating project success criteria, including client satisfaction.
• Provide support to project managers and teams, implementing policies, methodology, tools and templates for managing projects within the organisation to support successful delivery.

Experience, Qualifications, Technical Requirements

• 2 to 4 years of PMO or Project Management experience.
• Experience of setting up or establishing a PMO function
• Experience of building PMO reporting, monitoring or risks, resources and process adherence reporting to Programme Boards, steering groups and Exco
• Experience with projects in multiple technologies, functions (e.g. transaction management, risk management etc.) and industries.
• Proactive, tenacious, inquisitive, organized, solution and delivery orientated mindset with an eye for details and solving problems.
• Analytical and proficient in the use of multiple data analytics tools to produce required reporting. Advanced excel skills.
• Knowledge of various software development methodologies, such as Agile, Scrum, or Waterfall.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to influence and negotiate to ensure governance standards are met. Ability to engage with and communicate to staff at all levels of the organization.
• Knowledge of systems and applications for recording and reporting Portfolio data, such as DevOps, Jira, MS Project etc.

What we offer at Taylor Wimpey

We enjoy many benefits as standard, including excellent retail discounts, company funded life insurance and private healthcare, and access to a quality pension scheme with company contributions. We also offer our discounted house purchase scheme, car leasing scheme and share plans, as well as the opportunity to tailor your benefit package to suit your needs with options such as buying extra annual leave or adding dependants to your benefit cover. Our total reward offer works perfectly with our culture, we are a welcoming community where everyone can feel at home.

We create a home to your future by providing opportunities for growth and development. We offer industry leading professional training and development, which supports you to unlock your potential and fulfil your career and personal goals in a variety of opportunities and environments. We look to develop our people in the skills and areas they are most interested in, leveraging your qualities and appreciating your unique competencies, skills and expertise that, when we come together, make this a great place to work.

Inclusivity Statement

As a proud Disability Confident Employer, Taylor Wimpey is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. We actively collaborate with individuals who have disabilities and long-term health conditions which have an effect on their ability to do normal daily activities, ensuring that barriers are eliminated when it comes to employment opportunities. In line with our commitment, we guarantee an interview to applicants who declare to us during the application process that they have a disability and meet the minimum requirements for the role. Join us in building a truly diverse and empowered team.