PMO Lead in City of London, London

The PMO Lead coordinates the organisation-wide delivery framework. Working with Executive Directors, the role ensures priorities are reflected in plans, progress is measured consistently, and strategic reporting provides a clear view of delivery, risks and required decisions.

Client Details

The PMO Lead coordinates the organisation-wide delivery framework. Working with Executive Directors, the role ensures priorities are reflected in plans, progress is measured consistently, and strategic reporting provides a clear view of delivery, risks and required decisions.

Description

• Lead and coordinate the annual planning cycle, ensuring supporting plans across the organisation are aligned to strategic priorities.
• Work with Directors and leadership teams to improve the quality, consistency and credibility of supporting plans, ensuring they include clear objectives, milestones, success measures and ownership.
• Coordinate and maintain the organisation's five-year strategic roadmap, ensuring agreed changes are reflected consistently across supporting plans and reporting
• Support the review of strategic initiatives and major programmes, providing analysis of their alignment with strategy priorities and identifying dependencies and opportunities for collaboration across strategic initiatives, functions and departments.
• Provide planning and performance information to support prioritisation and investment decisions.

• Coordinate and continuously improve the strategy performance framework, including maintaining the strategic metrics library, definitions and reporting standards.
• Work with Directors, data owners and analysts to ensure strategic reporting is trusted, accurate and capable of supporting senior decision-making.
• Support the setting and review of annual targets that contribute to delivery of the strategy.
• Monitor progress against strategic goals, identifying emerging risks, opportunities and areas requiring Executive or Board attention.
• Support consistent tracking of outcomes and benefits across strategic programmes, initiatives and investments.
• Promote a culture of evidence-based decision making through the effective use of strategic performance information.

• Manage the annual strategy governance calendar, ensuring alignment across Executive, Committees and Board reporting cycles.
• Produce high-quality strategy reports, dashboards and performance updates for senior leadership, Committees and the Board.
• Coordinate organisational input into strategic reporting, ensuring information is accurate, timely and presented to a consistently high standard.
• Ensure consistent reporting against strategy ambitions, strategic goals, must-wins and enabling outcomes.
• Support the Technology Director in maintaining an integrated view of strategic delivery across supporting plans, programmes, investments and organisational performance measures.
• Identify opportunities to improve the efficiency, quality and impact of strategic performance reporting and governance processes.

• Support the preparation of Board, Committee and Executive discussions relating to strategic performance and organisational priorities.
• Collaborate across the organisation to build organisational understanding of how objectives and activities contribute to delivery of the strategy
• Support preparation of organisational updates, presentations and strategic communications.
• Escalate performance concerns, delivery risks and strategic issues requiring Executive or Board attention.
• Present strategic information, performance insights and delivery risks clearly and appropriately for senior stakeholders.

Profile

• Experience in strategic planning, corporate performance, PMO, portfolio management, transformation or business planning roles.
• Strong analytical capability with the ability to translate complex information into meaningful insight.
• Strong project coordination and organisational skills.
• Experience developing and managing KPI and performance reporting frameworks.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills, with experience producing high-quality reporting and presentations for senior stakeholders.
• High levels of attention to detail and accuracy.

• Experience using strategy execution tools and/or performance management platforms.
• Experience of benefits realisation and performance measurement methodologies.
• Knowledge of OKRs, balanced scorecards or similar performance frameworks.
• Experience supporting Board or Committee governance processes.

• Strategic thinker with strong delivery focus.
• Highly organised and proactive.
• Able to challenge constructively and influence effectively.
• Strong collaborator with excellent relationship-building skills.
• Comfortable working across both strategic and operational levels.
• Curious, analytical and solutions-focused.
• Resilient and adaptable in a dynamic environment.

Job Offer

A competitive salary and benefits package, and a hybrid working schedule (50% of the time in office)