PMO Lead (Part-Time, Job-Share, Full-Time)
Salary: Up to £40,000 -£50,000 depending on experience plus an excellent benefits package
Location: Swindon/Fareham/Hybrid working
The opportunity:
To ensure the successful delivery of our UK and Global Projects safely and securely. You’ll be responsible for the consistent and effective delivery of a range of large-scale projects or programs. Being a trusted adviser to Project Managers to safeguard Project Management Frameworks, governance standards, and looking after risk avoidance.
You’ll support projects or programmes by defining and maintaining process standards, ensuring delivery approaches and methodologies are applied and followed, and identifying opportunities to add value.
You'll be responsible for managing a team of approximately four permanent PMO Consultants and Analysts and the same number of Contractors. You will lead, mentor, and motivate your team, ensuring clear communication, providing guidance, and fostering a collaborative environment to drive project success.
You’re expected to have an appetite for continuous improvements in processes and tools.
If you have a ‘can-do’ attitude, enjoy tasks varying from one day to the next, and can make commercially sensible judgements, then you may be exactly what we’re looking for.
What will you be doing?
Right now, you’re in a PMO role and have an understanding of the full project/programme lifecycle (Agile and Waterfall) and have a PMO qualification (Prince2, APM, P30). Experience in managing a team of any size is preferred but not essential.
What matters is that you’re results-driven and have outstanding planning and organisation skills with excellent attention to detail. You’re experienced in governance, delivery assurance tools and processes including RAID, planning, status reporting, finances, and change controls.
By your very nature, you have fantastic communication skills, and you have a history of building great business relationships, relying on honesty and accuracy of information.
Duties and responsibilities:
* Strong knowledge of Governance and Delivery frameworks, roadmap planning and change prioritisation models
* Negotiation, conflict resolution and facilitation skills
* Experience in process improvement and automation
* Experience in scheduling and resourcing large complex programme and projects
* Mobilise and run PMO for large scale, high-complexity programmes
* Ability to demonstrate a proactive/can do style of work
* Proven experience working in the Portfolio Office of a large multinational organisation
* Confidence to escalate matters where required
What are we looking for?
* Prior experience as PMO Lead is desirable
* Previous experience in Insurance is also desirable
* Excellent interpersonal skills as well as excellent verbal and written communication skills
* Proven ability around: Financial and Resource Management, Delivery Assurance, Change Control, Risk Issues, Assumptions Management and Status Reporting
* Comfortable working in a fast-paced, adaptable environment
* Demonstrated ability in people management, including leadership, team-building, and mentoring to drive team performance and project success.
Who we are:
At Zurich we aspire to be one of the most responsible and impactful businesses in the world and the best global insurer. Together we’re creating a brighter future for our customers, our people and our planet.
With over 55,000 employees in more than 170 countries, you’ll feel the support of being part of a strong and stable company who are a long-standing player in the insurance industry.
If you're interested in working in a dynamic and challenging environment for a company that recognises and rewards your creativity, initiatives and contributions - then Zurich could be just the place for you. Be part of something great.
Our Culture:
At Zurich, our sense of community is strong and we’re particularly passionate about diversity and inclusion, which we’ve won numerous awards for. We want our people to bring the whole of themselves to work and ensure everybody is made to feel welcome, regardless of their background, beliefs or culture.
We’re passionate about supporting employees to help others by getting involved in volunteering, charitable and community activity. Our charitable arm, Zurich Community Trust, is one of the longest-established corporate trusts in the UK. In that time, we’ve awarded grants and volunteered time to deserving causes in the UK valued at over £90 million.
So make a difference. Be challenged. Be inspired. Be supported, Love what you do. Work for us.
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