Job Description

Our OEM Client based in Gaydon, is searching for a PMO Manager to join their team, Inside IR35. This is a maternity cover contract position with a proposed end date of 31st March 2027.

Umbrella Pay Rate: £38.94 per hour.

Duties:

General Program Management Office (PMO) is accountable for providing central expertise, support, and control for an organization's projects/programs including:

Developing program / project management best practices/templates and providing training/mentoring to project teams.

Monitoring dependencies across multiple inter-related projects.

Gathering and reporting consolidated project status and financial information to leadership

In some organizations may serve as a central governing body to review/audit adherence to methodologies, budgets, and timing

In some organizations may provide full staffing and management for the organization's major projects / programs.

Responsibilities typically include:

Policy and strategy implementation for short-term results (1 year or less).

Problems faced are difficult to moderately complex.

Influences others outside of own job area regarding policies, practices and procedures.

Essential Skills, Experience and Knowledge Required:

Proven track record of delivering complex software programmes in Agile environment with global cross-functional teams, on time and within budget.

Significant experience working in a technical environment with cross functional teams.

A strong, communication, analytical and problem-solving skills to identify how one issue can impact on another and put in place the required interventions through support or from own knowledge base.

Significant experience of project management in the software development environments.

Ability to communicate with individuals from both technical and non-technical backgrounds and present content in a meaningful, clear and concise way.

Ability to coach teams to be self-organising and consistent velocity.

Experienced with Agile Frameworks - (SCRUM, Kanban, SAFE…) and Agile planning tools such as Jira and Confluence.

Formal project management certification an advantage (Agile PSM, SAFe, PMP, Prince2).

Understanding of Software Development processes and continuous delivery