PMO Manager

PMO Manager

Remote role with regular travel to our Exeter & Milton Keynes branches.

Offering a salary of up to £60,000 depending on experience, plus either a company car or car allowance and great company benefits.

Due to company development, we are looking for a tenacious, robust and detail orientated PMO Manager, to join our team. This is brand new role within Mears so having experience and time in role as a PMO Manager is essential, someone who has previously established a PMO function would be ideal.  

The successful PMO manager will be responsible for the governance strategy and delivery assurance for the project and change portfolio across the Mears Group. The role will have primary responsibility for ensuring the Groups’ approach to change is managed in a controlled way. 

Mears is one of the UK’s leading housing providers to both the public and private sector, with over 5,500 employees, working with clients to help develop, fund and implement their placemaking ambitions. With 30 years of delivering market-leading repairs and maintenance services, Mears is trusted to deliver in excess of 6,000 repairs daily to a portfolio of more than 1,000,000 homes nationwide. We provide tailored rapid-response and planned maintenance services through partnering arrangements with more than 70 local authorities, Arm’s Length Management Organisations and Housing Associations.

About the Role:

The PMO Manager will lead on the development and maintenance of the Group’s change roadmap to ensure accurate reporting of the portfolio of work. You will be responsible for working with the IT and Business Transformation Teams to report on project and business planning activities, identifying and taking action on risks. 

As a PMO Manager you must be able to support and motivate your colleagues’ managing projects, identifying and taking forward coaching and development needs for everyone ensuring that best practice is at the forefront of all that we do.
 

The successful PMO Manager must be a self-starter and have the ability and knowledge to take the foundations of what has been created and establish it into a successful business function.

Role Criteria:

• Time Experience as a PMO Manager
• P30 PMO Qualification
• Must have used and be familiar with portfolio management systems
• Ability to quickly absorb and understand complex written information and summarise it concisely
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• The ability to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders
• The ability to present arguments in …