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# Governance and Enablement Lead

- **Company:** Harvey Nash
- **Location:** Leeds, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Encodings, Decision Support Systems
- **Published:** August 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/governance-lead/harvey-nash-job107872554

## About the Role

We're keen to speak with experienced PMO and governance professionals who can operate confidently within complex transformation environments.

You'll ideally bring:

 * Significant PMO Lead, Portfolio PMO or Governance experience.
 * Strong stakeholder management skills and experience working with senior leaders.
 * Knowledge of portfolio, programme and project governance best practices, ideally including P3O approaches.
 * A strong understanding of risks, controls, assurance and delivery oversight.
 * Previous project or programme management experience.
 * The ability to take a strategic view and understand the bigger picture.
 * Experience within Financial Services or another regulated environment would be highly desirable., * A strong communicator and relationship builder.
 * Comfortable challenging and influencing senior stakeholders.
 * Commercially aware, with an eye on cost, benefit and delivery outcomes.
 * Dynamic, engaging and proactive in their approach.
 * Someone who can balance governance with enabling delivery, rather than creating bureaucracy.

## Description

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced PMO or Governance Lead to play a key role across a portfolio of strategic business and technology change initiatives. You'll act as a trusted partner to Delivery Leads, ensuring robust governance, high-quality reporting and effective decision-making across complex programmes., You'll be responsible for embedding and operating change governance frameworks across a portfolio of programmes, providing assurance, insight and decision support to senior stakeholders., * Leading portfolio governance activities and ensuring adherence to established standards and controls.

 * Acting as the governance lead across a range of business and technology change initiatives.
 * Producing high-quality reporting, dashboards and decision-making materials for senior stakeholders.
 * Facilitating governance forums, steering committees and portfolio reviews.
 * Providing oversight of risks, issues, dependencies, milestones and financial performance.
 * Supporting Delivery Leads by acting as the 'eyes and ears' across portfolio activity.
 * Driving consistency in reporting, controls and delivery assurance.
 * Helping teams navigate governance requirements while enabling successful change delivery.


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