PMO Manager

Janes is seeking a PMO Manager to provide clear, accurate, and forward-looking portfolio information, governance, and control across major initiatives.

The successful candidate will own and maintain an integrated portfolio plan for major initiatives, providing a clear view of scope, milestones, sequencing, dependencies, resources, and target outcomes.

Key responsibilities include:

• Planning: developing and maintaining portfolio plans, coordinating planning across stakeholders, establishing planning standards, and supporting capacity and resource planning
• Management Information and Delivery Visibility: owning and managing portfolio management information, ensuring accurate and timely reporting, and providing a clear view of delivery performance
• Governance and Process Management: defining and maintaining portfolio and project delivery processes, coordinating dependency management, and facilitating issue reviews
• Incident Management: facilitating incident management, coordinating resolution, and ensuring lessons are captured
• Operations and Service Acceptance: coordinating Acceptance into Service activities, maintaining operational readiness plans, and ensuring non-functional requirements are met
• Major Initiative and RAID Management: providing project management support, establishing RAID logs, and tracking actions and outcomes
• Backlog Ownership and Maintenance: reviewing and cleaning up backlogs, creating a consolidated backlog, and running backlog reviews

The ideal candidate will have at least five years' experience in a PMO or portfolio management role, strong project management skills, and excellent communication and presentation skills.

Benefits include:

• 27 days of annual leave
• Healthy half (0.5 day leave every 6 months for wellbeing)
• Leave- study/ volunteer/ reserve forces
• Pension plan (6% employer contribution)
• Private medical insurance – BUPA
• Maternity (100% of basic salary for the first 26 weeks followed by Statutory Maternity Pay)
• Paternity (100% of basic salary for 6 weeks)
• Life cover
• Access to LinkedIn Learning
• Access to an on-site gym (Only in Croydon)