IT PMO Lead
Rullion
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
20 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
SeniorJob location
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Agile Methodologies
RAID
Job description
Programme Governance & Control
- Establish and maintain programme governance frameworks, standards, and controls.
- Coordinate and support governance forums including SteerCo, Advisory Panels, Executive and Board sessions, and weekly programme meetings.
- Ensure compliance with organisational policies, audit requirements, and delivery standards.
- Maintain decision logs, action trackers, RAID logs, assumptions, dependencies, and programme documentation.
Planning & Delivery Management
- Develop and maintain an integrated programme plan, including milestones, dependencies, and critical paths.
- Support Programme and Workstream Leads with planning, scheduling, and resource forecasting.
- Track progress against plan, proactively identifying delivery risks or deviations.
- Drive momentum in a programme that is not yet in a fast-paced delivery phase.
RAID & Risk Management
- Own and actively manage the RAID framework.
- Proactively identify, assess, escalate, and mitigate risks.
- Provide clear recommendations and options to senior stakeholders, particularly when key decision-makers or SMEs are unavailable.
Reporting & Insights
- Produce high-quality, concise reporting for senior stakeholders.
- Consolidate status updates, financials, and RAID items into clear, actionable insights.
- Enable leadership decision-making in an environment where multiple operating model options are under consideration, including outsourcing vs. in-house capability.
Delivery & Business Support
- Provide hands-on delivery support where capacity is constrained, including drafting documents, packs, and first-cut deliverables.
- Support the development of training strategies and principles, producing initial drafts for review.
- Balance programme discipline with supporting the wider business through change.
Requirements
Essential
- Proven experience as a PMO Lead within IT or digital transformation programmes.
- Strong experience in governance, RAID management, programme planning, and reporting.
- Excellent organisational and analytical skills with the ability to synthesise complex information.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, comfortable engaging with senior leaders and technical teams.
- Experience operating effectively in ambiguous, evolving programmes.
Desirable
- Experience across IT operating model transformation, including prior outsourcing initiatives (1st or 2nd generation).
- Exposure to vendor and third-party delivery models.
- Knowledge of Agile delivery, sprints, and iterative ways of working.
- Familiarity with programme financial management.
Rullion celebrates and supports diversity and is committed to ensuring equal opportunities for both employees and applicants.