PMO Manager

We are looking for a really good PMO who would enjoy working for one of the UK's top services groups into a very large government organisation. The role runs all the way from project admin to full and complex design, implementation and leadership to support the infrastructure to maximise the effective overall management of medium to large scale, complex and high value/medium risk programmes and portfolios of projects

Job Description:

• Define the detailed scope and deliverables for the support office with both internal and external clients.
• Establish support office budgets and gain acceptance for cost and where appropriate revenue and margin targets and manage assigned resources to these parameters.
• Produce accurate forecasts of future support office performance and report on variance against forecast.
• Deliver services in accordance with agreed scope, acceptance criteria, time, financial and quality measures, managing contractual arrangements for the support office services to external clients.
• Assemble and update project or service plans, escalating deviations from published plans.
• Compile project/service risk and issue registers and ensure robust management and mitigation of risk levels.
• Compile delivery governance reports and project/programme reports.
• Ensures that delivery methods and tools are used in a manner consistent with the project environment.
• Provide management services to support project/service delivery. This may include, but is not limited to: compilation of budget and forecast figures; capability planning; milestone/delivery planning.
• Ensure effective client engagement and stakeholder management for project/service delivery.
• Complete assignment reviews at agreed periods or points in the project life cycle.
• Promote Sopra Steria services in client situations and develop relationships that are transferrable into sales opportunities.

Desirable Skills

• IT Services background; experience of having role out JIRA Confluence.