Osborne Clarke are looking to add to their Change &
Transformation team with an exciting new PMO Manager opportunity in our Bristol
office.
This role will involve managing the UK Firm's firm-wide PMO
by building on the current foundations in place to create a centre of
excellence. You will ensure there are rigorous processes in place regarding
reporting, quality assurance, resourcing, and budgeting, supporting our
business objectives and successfully delivering change initiatives.
This is a permanent position offering hybrid working.
The role
The PMO Manager will lead the strategic direction of the PMO
team, fostering a collaborative and high-performing work environment, and
ensuring the successful execution of change initiatives in alignment with
organisational goals.
Other key responsibilities include:
Centre of Excellence: Building a centre of excellence
for the firm through maintenance and continuous improvement of our standards,
including finalising a centralised repository for project management knowledge,
lessons learned, templates, and local practices.
Governance: Contributing to our methodology and
framework, managing change requests, monitoring stage gates, and ensuring the
teams are complying with these protocols.
Tools: Supporting our toolset, which includes
Monday.com and iManage for project documentation.
Reporting: Ensuring that reports for senior
stakeholders are created on time and to a high standard, and evolving our
framework to meet the needs of the organisation. Maintaining a central
repository of all projects and programmes across the firm, including managing
the project in-take process day to day.
Health Checks & Reviews: Carrying out health
checks across projects and programmes and supporting project teams to implement
findings and recommendations. Escalating and addressing issues proportionately
to their impact and needs of the business. Ensuring our processes meet all
regulatory requirements and our external and internal standards.
Culture: Contributing to our customer-focused
approach, providing guidance and support to the team of portfolio analysts to
create a high-performing team, and delivering continuous improvement.
Financial Management and Reporting: Ensuring budget
is set, signed off and monitored, appropriately detailed business cases are
created, invoices are processed and tracked accurately, and international
cross-charges are carried out correctly.
Resource Management: Ensuring resources are
distributed and allocated accurately within Change & Transformation, and
that resource requests into other departments are coordinated and prioritised.
Risk & Issue Management: Supporting the
identification and tracking of key portfolio-wide risks and issues, ensuring
that the mitigating actions are being implemented.
Data-Driven PMO: Developing our data sets, ensuring
benefits tracking processes run, and enabling data-driven decision making.
We are looking for:
- Experience in an enterprise / firm-wide PMO team.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Strong customer focus, with an emphasis on building an
understanding of Osborne Clarke's needs and creating processes and information
to support that.
- Line management experience, with a focus on building a
high-performance team, and an emphasis on fostering an inclusive culture.
- Collaborative and flexible approach, providing structure
without unnecessary bureaucracy.
- A good understanding of different portfolio, programme and
project methodologies (e.g. APM, MSP, P3O).
- Ability to synthesise complex information across a diverse,
firm-wide portfolio of change and strong coordination skills.
- An ability to demonstrate an understanding of the critical
role that a firm-wide PMO and change function plays within an organisation.
- Financial management skills, covering budgeting and
reporting and overall project financial control, to ensure investment value for
the client. Experience in the construction of annual investment plans is an
advantage.
We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.
Our recruitment process
We welcome direct applications for our opportunities - if you would like any further information about this role or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Dan Jones (Recruitment Manager) on 0117 917 4097 or email dan.jones@osborneclarke.com.
Please note we review applications, interview candidates and recruit on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.
We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.