PMO Manager (Framework) – Quality Gating / Methodologies / Governance / Portfolio - London

Job title : PMO Manager (Framework) – Quality Gating / Methodologies / Governance / Portfolio - London
Location : London
Job type : Permanent
Salary : £80000 - £90000 per annum
Sector : Digital & Media
Contact : Vishal Thawrani
Call : 0207 280 9944
Email : email Vishal
Reference : BH-19133-4
PMO Manager (Framework) – Quality Gating / Methodologies / Governance / Advertising - London

We are currently looking to recruit a PMO Manager to join one of the world’s leading Marketing and Advertising organisations who operate in 100+ countries and employ 40,000+ specialists worldwide. They are currently embarking on a large-scale £50M transformation programme and require an experienced PMO professional to ensure successful project delivery.

This is a newly formed team within the internal corporate technology platforms team, so they are looking for a PMO Manager with prior experience setting up and running frameworks as well as embedding delivery methodologies on a global scale. You will also be working alongside busy Project and Programme Managers so there will be a strong need to ensure rigour and control around project delivery.

Your responsibilities:

  • Line management & development of a small team of direct and indirect reports.
  • Set project management standards across Business Platforms and engage with spoke PMOs accordingly.
  • Own, maintain and update Business Platforms Framework for project delivery and underlying artefact templates – all aligned to the Group Transformation Framework.
  • Responsible for Quality Gating across Business Platforms, advising on and executing the gating process including storage of gated artefacts for audit purposes.
  • Identification and management of Portfolio level Risks and Issues, Assumptions and Dependencies.
  • Central expert to provide expertise and training to programmes in connection with Framework and Quality Gates.
Skills Required:
  • Stakeholder Management - to maintain excellent relationships and embed BP framework
  • Influence – to encourage adoption of BP Framework and artefacts
  • Analysis – to identify common themes across projects and escalate as appropriate
  • Attention to detail – to ensure high quality output of Quality Gate process
  • Resilience – deadline driven proactive individual to ensure delivery
  • Presentation skills – ability to present information as required
  • MS Office – highly proficient Powerpoint/Word/Excel skills


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