To support the successful delivery of our Strategic Infrastructure Onshore portfolio, a PMO Performance Lead will be embedded within each Construction project.
This role is centred on building strong relationships with internal stakeholders, utilising exceptional communication and influencing skills to drive project performance and strategic discussions. The PMO Performance Lead is a dynamic and customer-focussed position, requiring someone with extensive experience in stakeholder management and engagement. This role should demonstrate a deep understanding of data analytics and performance metrics, leveraging insights to inform decision making and enhance project outcomes.
Key Accountabilities
- Governance & oversight: Ensuring compliance to client PMO standards, methodologies and best practice.
- Project Management Office Activities: Acting as the main point of contact for PMO coordination activities, ensuring alignment with project goals and resource availability.
- Performance monitoring: Tracking project performance metrics and ensuring the right discussions are taking place to drive performance.
- Reporting: Providing regular updates and reports to the project senior management and stakeholders on project status, risks and issues, and project health checks.
- Stakeholder engagement: Communicating with stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations and ensuring involvement throughout the project lifecycle.
- Continuous improvement: Identifying areas for improvement and implementing changes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
- Meeting cadence: Leading on the monthly cycle of the Project Board including pack production and meeting coordination, ensuring alignment with reporting into the regional programme boards.
- Audits and assurance: Acting as a point of contact to ensure a coordinated approach to audit requests within the project, whilst also ensuring project compliance with internal documentation such as BP500SI and Standard Operating Procedures.
- Best practice: Ensuring the cascading of messages relating to PMO best practices, successes and communications.
- RACI: Supporting the project teams with the production of RACI’s and ensuring regular reviews.
- PMO improvement initiatives: Continuing to work closely with the Performance Reporting & Data team to deliver and embed improvement and transformation initiatives across the Onshore portfolio.
Leeds, UK Hybrid Full-time