PMO Lead

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements

• Proven experience as a PMO Lead, PMO Manager, Programme Office Manager, or Senior PMO Analyst.
• Strong project governance experience within large-scale transformation programmes.
• Extensive RAID management experience, including ownership and facilitation of RAID reviews.
• Strong documentation and programme control experience.
• Experience tracking budgets, forecasts, actuals, and programme financials.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage effectively at all levels.
• Experience producing executive-level reporting and governance packs.
• Advanced Excel and reporting skills.
• Desirable: Experience supporting ERP implementations.
• Desirable: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central exposure.
• Desirable: Experience working within greenfield transformation environments.
• Desirable: PRINCE2, P3O, MSP, APM, or equivalent qualifications.
• Desirable: Experience operating within Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and maintain PMO governance across a major ERP transformation programme.
• Establish and embed governance processes within a greenfield programme environment.
• Own the programme RAID process, conducting regular reviews and ensuring risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies are effectively managed and escalated.
• Ensure all programme documentation is accurately maintained, version controlled, and aligned with governance standards.
• Produce high-quality programme reporting, dashboards, and management information for senior stakeholders.
• Support programme budget management through tracking forecasts, actuals, spend, and variances.
• Facilitate governance forums, programme reviews, steering committees, and stakeholder meetings.
• Monitor programme health, milestones, actions, and dependencies.
• Challenge project teams where necessary to ensure adherence to agreed governance standards and controls.
• Drive consistency, visibility, and accountability across the programme.

Technologies

• ERP
• Excel
• Support
• Office 365

More

We are supporting a leading organisation in the search for an experienced PMO Lead to support a major greenfield ERP transformation programme. This is a remote contract role with occasional travel to Cheshire, offering up to £450 per day depending on experience, outside IR35, on an initial 6-month contract. The role is critical in establishing and maintaining project governance, programme documentation, reporting, RAID processes, and financial controls across a complex transformation initiative. Experience supporting ERP implementations, particularly Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central or similar enterprise transformation programmes, would be highly advantageous.

last updated 28 week of 2026