Job Introduction
DACBeachcroft is seeking an experienced PMO Manager to join our Transformation Programme Management Office on a full-time, fixed-term basis in our Bristol office.
This role will oversee programme governance, reporting, and coordination to ensure the successful delivery of key transformation initiatives and will be on a 12 months fixed term contract basis. The PMO Manager will act as the central point of control for programme management, ensuring alignment with the firm’s strategic objectives and effective use of resources.
The candidate must have transformational and integration experience having been directly involved in a large, high value, high risk strategic change initiative. It is essential that the candidate has experience of understanding the broader impact of transformation including new Target Operating Models, where there is a direct impact to resources.
We are a Disability Confident employer and guarantee to interview anyone with a disability, long term health condition or neurodiversity whose application meets the essential criteria for the role as set out in this advert. If this applies to you contact disabilityconfident@dacbeachcroft.com in confidence, quoting the reference number for this vacancy in the subject box of your email, and a member of the team will be in touch.
We are happy to talk flexible working and have in place a Flex-forward working scheme. We would encourage you to talk to us about our approach to flexible working during the hiring process if you would like to explore this further.
Role Responsibility
* Maintain robust governance frameworks, ensuring programme activities align with strategic goals and compliance requirements.
* Manage programme standards which would align to the programmes strategic pillars of delivery, methodologies, and templates that are specific to the transformation programme.
Reporting and Insights:
* Develop and deliver accurate and timely governance reports for senior stakeholders, including progress updates, risks and issues and using past transformational experience, to categorise and apply ratings (probability & impact matrix) to the RAIDS that are relevant for escalation at SteerCo.
* Create dashboards and visualisations to provide actionable insights to steerco, specifically related to the programme. The reports will be cross functional, and reports should be able to articulate interdependencies where appropriate.
Planning and Coordination:
* Facilitate programme planning sessions if required, ensuring alignment across workstreams and adherence to timelines.
* Facilitates and identifies the need for rapid decision making for critical transformation wide issues.
Risk and Issue Management:
* Maintain a centralised risk and issue log, working with project teams to mitigate and resolve challenges.
* Proactively identify and escalate risks or issues that may impact programme delivery. The ability to identify transformational risks is essential.
Stakeholder Engagement:
* Act as a central point of communication for the transformation programme, promoting transparency and engagement.
* Engagement with 3rd party partners for MI gathering and reporting is required.
Resource Management:
* Monitor resource demands and work with team leads to address gaps or conflicts.
The Ideal Candidate
* Proven experience in a PMO or programme/project management role, ideally within a legal environment, although other professional services experience will be considered.
* Transformational experience is essential.
* Demonstrable experience in managing governance, reporting, and planning for complex programmes.
* Strong knowledge of programme and project management methodologies.
* Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging senior leadership.
* Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on data-driven decision-making.
* High attention to detail and commitment to quality.
* Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
* Resilience and adaptability in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
* Collaborative mindset with a focus on team success and stakeholder satisfaction.
About the Company
We're a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We're market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we're market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-five housebuilders.
We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe. In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Miami, plus a broad network of affiliations across the globe.
Working with us
Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. Combine this with our supportive culture and hybrid working model, and you have: a Life that Works.
Our flexible approach means that we help our colleagues to be their best at work, while recognising that they have all sorts of different interests and commitments outside work.
We pride ourselves on our supportive, approachable culture. We are trusted, appreciated as individuals and embraced as part of a team. At DACB, we don’t just accept your differences, we celebrate and advocate for them. From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you as an individual. Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the ‘whole you’ to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are!
Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft LLP resourcing team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals. Whilst we do work with recruitment agencies, we will formally release those vacancies to instructed agencies deemed best placed to assist us. Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the resourcing team will not be accepted and no introduction fee will be applicable. Our resourcing team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com.
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